Weather

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Across
  1. 3. A period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently long enough to cause serious effects on agriculture and other activities in the affected area.
  2. 5. A high cloud composed of ice crystals in the form of thin, white, featherlike clouds in patches, filaments, or narrow bands.
  3. 7. The degree of hotness or coldness of a substance as measured by a thermometer. It is also a measure of the average speed or kinetic energy of the atoms and molecules in a substance.
  4. 10. The cumulative force exerted on any surface by the molecules composing air.
  5. 13. Solid precipitation in the form of chunks or balls of ice with diameters greater than 5 mm. The stones fall from cumulonimbus clouds.
  6. 14. A visible electrical discharge produced by thunderstorms.
  7. 15. Solid precipitation in the form of minute ice flakes that occur below 0ºC.
Down
  1. 1. The transition zone between two distinct air masses.
  2. 2. A cloud in the form of individual, detached domes or towers that are usually dense and well defined. It has a flat base with a bulging upper part that often resembles cauliflower. Cumulus clouds of fair weather are called cumulus humilis. Those that exhibit much vertical growth are called cumulus congestur or towering cumulus.
  3. 4. The study of the atmosphere and atmospheric phenomena as well as the atmosphere's interaction with the earth's surface, oceans, and life in general.
  4. 6. An intense, rotating column of air that protrudes from a cumulonimbus cloud in the shape of a funnel or a rope and touches the ground. (See Funnel cloud.)
  5. 8. The state of the atmosphere in terms of such variables as temperature, cloudiness, precipitation, and radiation.
  6. 9. A low, gray cloud layer with a rather uniform base whose precipitation is most commonly drizzle.
  7. 11. Precipitation in the form of liquid water drops that have diameters greater than that of drizzle.
  8. 12. The accumulation of daily and seasonal weather events over a long period of time. A description of aggregate weather conditions; the sum of all statistical weather information that helps describe a place or region.