Extreme weather

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground (3)
  2. 3. A disturbance that is extremely disruptive (10)
  3. 5. Spinning funnel of wind that touches the ground (7)
  4. 8. Frozen water (3)
  5. 10. Abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission (9)
  6. 11. Bad weather with strong wind and rain (5)
  7. 12. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (5)

Down

  1. 2. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots (plural) (5)
  2. 4. A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (9)
  3. 6. A shortage of rainfall (7)
  4. 7. A slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain (9)
  5. 9. A booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning (7)
  6. 11. Frozen flakes that fall in winter (4)