Weather: Blizzards Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• blizzard: a weather event with winds over 35 mph and reduced visibility due to snow
• weather: short term day-to-day conditions
• climate: long term temperatures and conditions averaged over time
• precipitation: process in which water falls from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
• hurricane: large storm with high winds and heavy rains that develops from a tropical cyclone over warm ocean water.
• windchill: what the temperature feels like when the wind is taken into account; it depends on air temperature and wind speed.
• lake effect snow: heavy snow storm that occurs when winter winds pick up moisture as they pass over a relatively warm lake and then drop the moisture as snow on the other side of the lake.
• snow: frozen precipitation crystals.
• wind: air that flows over earth’s surface because of differences in heating of the atmosphere and land.
• jet stream: a fast-flowing river of air high in the atmosphere, where air masses with two very different sets of temperature and humidity characteristics move past each other.