Weather Center

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Someone regarded as certain to succeed (7)
  2. 5. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  3. 8. A dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity (12)
  4. 9. Moving air (4)
  5. 10. A large dark low cloud (7)
  6. 12. Water falling from clouds (4)
  7. 13. The side that is forward or prominent (5)
  8. 14. Information about recent and important events (4)

Down

  1. 1. A wispy white cloud at a high altitude (6)
  2. 2. An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain (plural) (8)
  3. 3. A small portable timepiece (5)
  4. 6. Wetness in the atmosphere (8)
  5. 7. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune (8)
  6. 10. Bright and pleasant (5)
  7. 11. Frozen flakes that fall in winter (4)
  8. 13. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground (3)