Weather Words

2. clouds: puffy, white clouds that tend to have flat bottoms
5. the rotation of air around a high pressure center in the direction opposite to Earth's rotation
7. an electric discharge that takes place between two oppositely chraged surfaces, such as between a cloud and the ground, between two clouds, or between two parts of the same cloud
8. an instrument used to measure wind speed
10. any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface fromt he clouds
11. a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean
13. A weather front is a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities, and is the principal cause of meteorological phenomena
15. the sound caused by the rapid expansion of air along an electrical strike

1. an area in the atmosphere that has lower pressure than the surronding areas and has winds that spiral toward the center
3. an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
4. an instrument that measures and indicates tempature
6. a usually brief, heavy storm that has very high wind speeds, is visible as a funnel shaped cloud, and touches the ground
9. he change of state from a gas to a liquid
12. mass air mass is a volume of air defined by its temperature and water vapor content
14. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system