Weather Weenie's Crossword #1

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Across
  1. 2. line of severe weather
  2. 6. sign of weakening low pressure system
  3. 8. weather observation site at airports (abbr.)
  4. 9. unit of temperature
  5. 11. area of strong upward motion
  6. 13. change in measureable quantity (suffix)
  7. 14. Dust __
  8. 16. circulation type
  9. 18. circulation type
  10. 20. rapid change in moisture with height
  11. 21. deformation due to shear
  12. 22. strong wind and snow event
  13. 28. oceanic storm with eye
  14. 29. unit of temperature
  15. 30. energy for storm initiation (abbr.)
  16. 31. change in temp. with height
  17. 33. damaging whirl
  18. 34. pair of lines defining wave extrema
  19. 36. mass of rotating air
  20. 37. vertical velocity
  21. 38. depicts trough/ridge amplitude
  22. 39. main area of global convergence (abbr.)
  23. 40. when temp. and dew point are equal
  24. 43. idealized air packet
  25. 49. environmental temp. (adj.)
  26. 50. suffix for weakening
  27. 51. __ Richardson Number
  28. 53. type of inverted trough seen in snowstorms
  29. 55. widespread wind event
  30. 56. boundary btw. air masses
  31. 57. potential temp.
Down
  1. 1. type of squall line (abbr.)
  2. 2. range of annual temperature extremes in an area
  3. 3. oceanic disaster often caused by earthquake
  4. 4. denoting pressure (prefix)
  5. 5. cyclone formation process
  6. 7. instrument collecting atmospheric data
  7. 10. __ Simpson Scale
  8. 12. __ Number
  9. 15. where temp. increases with height
  10. 17. boundary seperating moist and dry air
  11. 19. unit of temperature
  12. 21. boundary distinguishing troposphere and stratosphere
  13. 23. aggregate of "raw" weather observations (abbr.)
  14. 24. unit of pressure
  15. 25. oft-used nautical wind index
  16. 26. depicts wind on weather map
  17. 27. localized phenomenon involving sea level differences
  18. 30. region of minimal, non-intersecting wind
  19. 32. eminent name in tornado research
  20. 35. __ Spiral (oceanography)
  21. 36. gaseous water
  22. 41. constant (prefix)
  23. 42. __ Wave
  24. 44. process preventing storm initiation (abbr.)
  25. 45. where temp. and dew point meet (abbr.)
  26. 46. observational mode
  27. 47. large column of saturated air (abbr.)
  28. 48. localized storm
  29. 52. point-based chart of atmospheric conditions
  30. 54. thermal energy, or energy transfer