Weather Vocabulary

2. visible accumulations of water droplets or solid ice crystals that float in the Earth's troposphere moving with the wind.
3. MOST COMMON NATURAL HAZARDS IN THE UNITED STATES
5. the amount of water vapor in the air
9. occurs when the layer of freezing air is so thin that the raindrops do not have enough time to freeze before reaching the ground
10. It is smaller than snow and hail.
11. violently spinning, funnel-shaped columns of air that stretch from the dark thunderclouds they form in all the way to the ground
13. a storm that lasts at least three hours and produces a large amount of snow
14. 1000 times the size of a cloud drop

1. a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world
4. bolt can reach 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit
6. start with rising warm air and moisture
7. need warm ocean water and moist air to form
8. the 5 types are snow, hail, rain, and sleet
10. air is so cold that water vapor changes directly to ice crystals
12. large ice pellets