15 Free Weather Word Search Puzzles (Printable PDFs)

Every Kind of Weather

The puzzles follow the weather through the year, with a puzzle for each season’s weather, a rainy day puzzle and a snowy day puzzle. Others cover how weather works and how it is measured: the cloud types, the instruments at a weather station, and the forecasting language of meteorology, from the jet stream to the isobar. The extreme weather and hurricane puzzles cover the storms, and weather around the world covers monsoons, trade winds and El Niño.

What’s in Every Puzzle

Each download is a two-page PDF: the puzzle grid on page one, the completed answer key on page two. Fifteen words per grid, hidden in every direction. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to install. Click a card and print the page.

How to Use These Weather Word Searches

Use one as a starter for a weather or water-cycle lesson, hand out the matching season’s puzzle as the weather turns, or keep a stack for indoor recess on a wet day. The 1st grade puzzle uses short everyday words like RAIN and SNOW; the cloud types and meteorology puzzles suit upper elementary and middle school science.