Weather Words

2. sunshine, rain, cold snaps, heat waves and snow are all examples of this
4. a warm air mass that rotates around a center of strong lowpressure typhoons and hurricanes are both examples
6. frozen balls of ice that fall during thunderstorms
8. the blanket of air that covers and surrounds our planet
10. form when water drops condense from the atmosphere. They can be big and puffy or thin enough to see the blue sky through them
11. when the temperature gets a lot hotter than usual
13. rain snow, hail, drizzle. Anything wet that falls from clouds to the Earth's surface
15. formed when water vapor condenses, a very low lying cloud

1. a large storm with very strong winds and lots of rain
3. pure, liquid water that falls from storm clouds
4. weather patterns that usually occur where you live
5. the sound made by a lightning bolt
6. the amount of water vapor in the air
7. a simple instrument used to measure how strong or weak the air pressure is
9. the scientific study of Earth's atmosphere, especially how the atmosphere affects the weather
12. an invisible gas that is floating all around us
14. mass huge volume of air, sometimes hundreds (or thousands!) of miles wide