| 20 answers for: In meteorology, an atmospheric condition involving... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| HYDROMETEOR | In meteorology, an atmospheric condition involving condensation such as cloud, fog, haze or mist (11) |
| GAUZE | Illusion- or tulle-like diaphanous textile; a dressing of muslin or similar cotton; scrim; wire mesh; or, fine haze or mist, suggestive of any of these (5) |
| FILM | A membrane or skin; thin pellicle; a gauze of fine threads; haze or mist; plastic wrap; a strip of Celluloid for capturing pictures; or, a movie (4) |
| BLANKET | From the Old French for "white", a bedcover or manta; or, a layer of something such as bluebells, cloud, fog, snow or whale blubber (7) |
| EXPANSE | A wide stretch of cloud, fog, forest, sea, sky etc; or, the firmament (7) |
| RIFTS | Breaks, cracks or gaps in things such as cloud masses, Earth's lithosphere or friendly relations (5) |
| OVERCAST | Word meaning covered, darkened, obscured or shadowed by something such as clouds, dull grey mist, gloom, long slanting stitches or melancholy (8) |
| RAINMAKER | Person who attempts to induce precipitation, either by ritual or a scientific technique such as cloud seeding (9) |
| TIMWINTON | Australian novelist acclaimed for works such as Cloud Street and Breath (3,6) |
| RIDGE | In meteorology, an elongated region of high barometric pressure associated with warm weather, opposite to a trough (5) |
| CUTHBERTSON | Iain - , who played Louis Leakey in the film 'Gorillas in the Mist' (11) |
| TROUGH | In meteorology, an elongated area of low pressure (6) |
| BEAUFORTSCALE | In meteorology, an international measure of wind velocities (8,5) |
| ELNINO | In meteorology, an occasional warming of the eastern tropical Pacific which disrupts the weather pattern of the region (2,4) |
| VAPOUR | Such as clouds or smoke |
| FOGHORN | Word for a booming noisemaker serving to warn sailors/ships in brume, fret, haar or mist; or, a loud bellowing voice, evocative of such a klaxon (7) |
| FOG | Which atmospheric condition can be frontal, ice, steam or upslope? (3) |
| RINGMASTERS | Big tops' MC's making out rangers in the mist (11) |
| STORM | General word for an atmospheric disturbance such as a blizzard, hurricane, gale of force 10 on the Beaufort scale or cloudburst with thunder and lightning (5) |
| GYRE | A literary word for a circle, revolution, ring, spiral, swirl or whirl, thus an atmospheric/oceanic vortex; or, a whorl of leaves or petals (4) |
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