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Across 1. the distance seperating successive ridges and troughs 5. rapidly rotating whirls in a tornado 9. sharp-edged ridges, French for knife-edge 11. measures pressure 13. dry region downwind of mountain 14. lines equal of pressure 17. ocean current flowing south along west coast 18. piling up air above a region 24. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this. 25. liquid to vapor state 26. temperature scale 28. bending of waves around objects 29. short-lived electrical bursts that rise from the top of cloud tops 30. chinook wind in Alps 31. ability to transmit a fluid through a material 34. intense shower 35. sharp, pyramid-like mountain peaks 36. prediction using current conditions 38. state with most thunderstorms 40. discharge of electricity within a thunderstorm 42. negatively charged 44. forecast chart showing future time 46. French engineer who calculated veer to the right 48. west to east wind flow pattern 49. clouds downwind of mountains 51. pouch-like cloud structures that are a rare example of clouds in sinking air 53. loss of glacial budget 55. mistaken for hail 56. harbor waves created by an earthquake 57. center of hurricane 58. most common ice crystal state 59. measure of groundwater storage 60. forecast method utilizing past events

Down 2. warm water phenomenon usually occurring around Christmas 3. trend forecast for immediate future 4. tornado over water 6. several version of a forecast model 7. a bright spot in the sky appearing on either side of the sun, formed by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals high in the earth's atmosphere. Also called a sundog. 8. a sudden, violent rainstorm. 10. from the Arabic word meaning "season" 12. rapid rise in ocean levels due to hurricane 15. the diffuse reflection of sunlight reflected from Earth's surface and clouds 16. weak molecular attraction, Dutch scientist 19. gas to liquid state 20. gust front cloud 21. Portion of the atmosphere where most of the weather occurs 22. Top of the Troposphere 23. weather map wind flow depiction 27. Laws of motion 28. wind erodes by lifting and removing material 32. aggregate of ice crystals 33. a compound held together by this bond 37. the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase 39. desert streams 41. a violent and oppressive wind blowing in summer, especially in Sudan,bringing sand from desert 43. small, moving disturbance in longwave 44. the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil 45. tornado develops from this cloud 47. landforms made by glacial deposits 50. large convection cell 52. solid to liquid state 54. rain that evaporates