Hard weather word search
A nor'west arch, a weather bomb and an atmospheric river: twenty-eight weather words in an eighteen by eighteen grid. They run in all eight directions, for amateur forecasters and anyone who checks MetService twice a day.
- Atmospheric river
- Barometer
- Black ice
- Breeze
- Cloud
- Downpour
- Drizzle
- Ex-tropical cyclone
- Fog
- Forecast
- Frost
- Gale
- Hail
- Humidity
- Isobars
- Lightning
- MetService
- Nor'west arch
- Norwester
- Puddle
- Rainbow
- Sleet
- Snow
- Southerly
- Storm
- Sunshine
- Thunder
- Weather bomb
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Find these words
- Atmospheric river
- Barometer
- Black ice
- Breeze
- Cloud
- Downpour
- Drizzle
- Ex-tropical cyclone
- Fog
- Forecast
- Frost
- Gale
- Hail
- Humidity
- Isobars
- Lightning
- MetService
- Nor'west arch
- Norwester
- Puddle
- Rainbow
- Sleet
- Snow
- Southerly
- Storm
- Sunshine
- Thunder
- Weather bomb
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About this word search
New Zealand's weather comes off the ocean from every direction. A nor'west arch is a band of cloud over the Canterbury Plains that tells you a hot nor'wester is coming. Weather bombs and atmospheric rivers bring storms and heavy rain, and Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023 showed how much damage an ex-tropical cyclone can do. MetService issues the official forecasts and warnings.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Ex-tropical cyclone is the longest at seventeen letters, written EXTROPICALCYCLONE, and atmospheric river follows with sixteen. Nor'west arch and weather bomb have eleven. Fog is just three letters. Norwester and nor'west arch begin with the same seven letters, NORWEST, so check what comes next.
This sheet works well for older students learning about weather maps. Pick out the words you would see on a weather map, such as isobars, and explain what each one means.
Ways to use this word search
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Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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