Weather word search

Sun, rain, wind and snow, and every word a forecaster needs. The list runs from gentle drizzle and dew to the most powerful storms, the hurricane, tornado and blizzard, and includes the tools and words of weather science: thermometer, forecast, radar, humidity and the meteorologist who puts them all together.

A hurricane, a typhoon and a cyclone are the same kind of storm; the name depends on where it forms. Over the Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific it is a hurricane, over the northwestern Pacific a typhoon, and over the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific a cyclone. A bolt of lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun, and you can only see a rainbow when the sun is behind you and the rain is in front of you.

Weather is a staple of early-grade science and of English lessons, since children talk about it every day. Pair the puzzle with a week of weather charts: each morning, find the word that matches the sky outside.

Play tip: many words come in pairs, like RAIN and RAINY, CLOUD and CLOUDY or FOG and FOGGY. A single puzzle never uses both forms, so if the list says WINDY, follow the letters all the way to the final Y.