Weather Terms Crossword

rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground
the heat required to convert a solid into a liquid or vapor, or a liquid into a vapor, without change of temperature
the process of turning from liquid into vapor
the conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid
a solid deposit of a substance which has sublimed
the action of depositing something
a quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or in a gas
the atmospheric temperature (varying according to pressure and humidity) below which water droplets begin to condense and dew can form
an instrument for measuring the humidity of the air or a gas
when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain
The boundary between two air masses that have different temperatures or humidity
reversal of the normal behaviour of temperature in the troposphere (the region of the atmosphere nearest the Earth’s surface), in which a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air.
fine particles, either solid or liquid, suspended in the atmosphere.
the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air
a device that measures the pressure of the atmosphere as an aid to predicting weather
how a moving object seems to veer toward the right in the Northern hemisphere and left in the Southern hemisphere
a long narrow meandering current of high-speed winds near the tropopause blowing from a generally westerly direction and often exceeding a speed of 250 miles (402 kilometers) per hour
a storm or system of winds that rotates about a center of low atmospheric pressure, advances at a speed of 20 to 30 miles (about 30 to 50 kilometers) an hour, and often brings heavy rain
a system of winds that rotates about a center of high atmospheric pressure clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern, that usually advances at 20 to 30 miles (about 30 to 50 kilometers) per hour, and that usually has a diameter of 1500 to 2500 miles (2400 to 4000 kilometers)
a wind blowing almost constantly in one direction especially : a wind blowing almost continually toward the equator from the northeast in the belt between the northern horse latitudes and the doldrums and from the southeast in the belt between the southern horse latitudes and the doldrums
any semipermanent belt of westerly winds, especially those that prevail at latitudes lying between the tropical and polar regions of the earth
the dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and south poles towards low-pressure areas within the Westerlies at high latitudes
the boundary between the cold air of a polar region and the warmer air of lower latitudes
a seasonal, intense wind that blows from the southwest from April to October and from the northeast at other time of the year in parts of Asia, creating heavy rainstorms
a body of air extending hundreds or thousands of miles horizontally and sometimes as high as the stratosphere and maintaining as it travels nearly uniform conditions of temperature and humidity at any given level