Weather

6. A front (usually a cold front) at which the warm air descents the frontal surface.
8. An instrument used to measure rainfall amounts.
12. Free from rain.
13. Incoming solar radiation.
14. The lowest temperature during a specified time period.

1. In marine usage, winds 48 knots (55 miles per hour) or greater.
2. Clouds which cover between 5/8ths and 7/8ths of the sky.
3. Abnormally dry weather in a region over an extended period sufficient to cause a serious water cycle imbalance in the affected area.
4. Cirrus, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus.
5. Air that flows outward from a thunderstorm.
7. A measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to a standard value.
9. The combined height of swell and wind waves.
10. The change in a substance from a liquid to a solid state.
11. a mass of very cold, dry air that usually originates over the Arctic Ocean north of Canada and Alaska.
15. In winter, mild refers to four to seven degrees Celsius above normal.