Across

2. moderately cold; not warm.

6. having a great or excessive amount of wind; characterized by wind.

7. an instrument for measuring temperature, esp. a sealed glass tube with a calibrated scale on the outside and a column of liquid, usu. mercury, inside that rises or falls as the temperature changes .

11. a powerful cyclonic storm that originates in the West Indian region of the Atlantic Ocean and that has heavy rains and winds exceeding seventy-three miles, or 119 kilometers, per hour.

12. a brief electrical storm usu. accompanied by heavy rain and high winds.

13. natural electricity produced in thunderstorm clouds and appearing as a bright flash or streak of light in the sky.

14. a frozen form of precipitation that falls as ice crystals formed into flakes.

15. to predict (the weather).

Down

1. full of or covered by dense clouds.

3. the season of the year between autumn and spring, in the northern hemisphere continuing from the December solstice to the March equinox.

4. characterized by the presence of clouds; overcast.

5. at or near the temperature at which water turns to ice.

6. having or emitting moderate heat.

7. a very destructive but short-lived windstorm in the form of a funnel-shaped cloud that moves close to the ground destroying whatever is in its path.

8. water vapor in the atmosphere that condenses and falls from the sky to earth.

9. a meteorological instrument that measures atmospheric pressure, esp. used to predict weather changes.

10. free of darkness, clouds, or haze.

11. dampness or moistness, as of the atmosphere.

14. exposed to or warmed by sunlight, esp. during much of each day.