Jazz musicians and jockeys helped give NYC this nickname
The Big Apple
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
Evaporation
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky - rain and snow can fall from these
Stratus clouds
This 9 letter adjective can mean shoeing great intelligence or shining brightly
Brilliant
The status of the air at a certain place and time
Weather
If you are under this, you are at teh circus
The big top
Amount of water vapor in the air
Humidity
White puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton - known as fair weather clouds
Cumulus clouds
Description of a flagrantly offensive error or omission
Egregious
Scientist who study weather
Meteorologists
Digit also known as the Hallux
The big toe
Water that is found underground is called this
Groundwater
This feathery clouds that appear high in the sky - they area sign of rain or snow on the way
Cirrus clouds
Now meaning trifling, it was originally used in Louisiana and the south to refer to a coin of little value
Picayune
The weather of a place over a long period of time
Climate
In France this feature of the night sky is known as le casserole
The big dipper
Process of water vapor turnin ginto water droplets
Condensation
Cloud that form at the earth's surface
Fog
The Babylonians used base 60 which could be counted on 5 fingers of one hand and the 12 of these on 4 fingers of the other
Knuckles
Instrument that shows wind direction
Wind vane
Rhyming nickname of Boston's interstate 93 construction project
The big dig
The amount of earth's surface area covered in fresh water
3%
Tall dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
Cumulonimbus clouds
Schleswig and Holstein in northern Germany are at the southern end of this peninsula
Jutland
Measures wind speed
Anemometer