The Tornado Project's Mainly Meteorology Crossword Puzzle
This "mainly meteorology" puzzle contains many simple and a few more difficult clues. Print it out and give it a try.
| Across 1 Acronym of mesoscale convective complex 4 A cloud lowering beneath the rain free base of a storm 7 Acronym for cloud to ground lightning 9 Move camcorder slowly to right or left, up or down 11 Acronym for the mobile doppler radar unit 13 Acronym for ice crystals 16 Liquid precipitation 18 Rounded clouds that hang from the underside of a thunderstorm anvil 22 Acronym for bounded weak echo region 24 Cool __ __ __ air moving in from the west may be part of the "recipe" for making a tornado form 25 One type of forcasting numerical model on the WWW used by chasers 26 __ __ A A is the controlling agency for the National Weather Service 27 Postal abbr for North Carolina 29 Acronym for cloud-to-cloud lightning 31 __ __ W is weather shorthand for a thunderstorm with a rain shower 33 Short cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes in the anvil 35 Visible electrical discharge produced by a thunderstorm 38 Where the wizard lived 41 Acronym for infrared 42 Color seen in clouds; indicative of hail 43 An alternative way to spell tornadoes 46 Acronym for ice pellets or internet provider 47 Postal abbr for Missouri 48 Acronym for Totable Tornado Observatory 50 __ __ __, tac, toe 52 Acronym for "front flank downdraft" 54 Acronym for Storm Prediction Center 55 A stream of rapidly moving air 58 Ice chunks that fall from storms 59 A tornado over water 62 The ozone layer is being protected by a __ __ __ on CFCs 63 The FAA forbid S. Colgate from making rockets out of __ __ __ __ __ 64 Thunderstorm that is most likley to drop a tornado 66 Short for observations 68 Kind of lava flow 69 Lightning that runs along the underside of an anvil 70 The main character in the Wizard of Oz |
Down 2 A shiny, thin, high-tech disk 3 The rainiest area in the FFD or RFD of a storm 4 Moving air 5 Acronym for altocumulus clouds 6 Postal abbr for Louisiana 8 Unsafe place to be in a school because of lack of roof support 10 Acronym for the National Severe Storms Laboratory 12 Red box area 14 Yellow box area 15 Weather shorthand for millibar 17 The direction of tornado motion in the northern hemisphere 18 Postal abbr for Maine 19 Postal abbr for Massachusetts 20 If a tornado rotates clockwise, it is said to be __ __ __ __ cyclonic 21 The company that created this crossword puzzle, among other things 23 Weather shorthand for the word weather 28 Acronym for convective temperature or postal abbr for Connecticut 30 Weather shorthand for cirrus clouds 32 Warm __ __ __ __ __ air from the Gulf of Mexico may be one ingredient in the "recipe" for a tornado 34 A safe place during a tornado 36 Acronym for "Zulu" time 37 Most thunderstorms are ___tornadic 39 Weather shorthand for freezing rain 40 Country that has the most tornadoes every year 44 Acronym for rear flank downdraft 45 Acronym for the American Meteorological Society 49 1995 blockbuster movie about scientist-chasers 51 __ __ Convergence Zone 53 Storm chasing tour leader Marty __ __ __ly 56 State where heroine of Wizard of Oz lived 57 Consumer; "__ __ __ __ -friendly" 58 Skywarn spotters communicate with __ __ __ radios. 59 Postal abbr for Washington 60 British for TV 61 In__ __ __ __ is wind moving towards the cloud base, usually at low level 62 Underside of supercell 65 Acronym for upper air 67 Cold front barbs are __ __ ue |