Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- PETRICHOR
- That unmistakable smell of rain on dry earth has a name: petrichor, coined by Australian researchers in 1964 from the Greek words for 'stone' and 'the fluid in the veins of the gods.'Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ANVIL
- The flat, spreading top of a towering thunderstorm cloud is called an anvil, named for its shape, it can stretch hundreds of miles downwind at the very edge of the troposphere.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TOWERING
- When a puffy fair-weather cloud keeps building upward into a tall, cauliflower column on a hot afternoon, meteorologists call it towering cumulus, and it's often the first sign a storm is brewing.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- RAINBOW
- A rainbow is always opposite the sun, so if you're watching one, the sun is behind you, and every color you see is sunlight bending through millions of individual raindrops.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Summer Storms word search
Summer Storms: a free large-print word search
Summer Storms word search, free and large-print. Rumble, flash, rainbow: find the magic of a warm-weather storm rolling in across an open sky.
About Summer Storms
A summer storm arrives fast, the sky turns that deep bruised green, the air goes thick and still, and then the first fat drops hit the hot pavement. Thunder rolls across the hills in long, slow waves while lightning writes itself across the clouds in an instant. When it passes, the world smells new again, puddles mirror the sky, and if the angle is right, a rainbow arches from one treeline to the other.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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