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Weather Things: Thunderstorm Ingredients
Lightning is spectacular, from a distance. It's nature's way of transferring electricity within the sky, or between the sky and the ground. When lightning is nearby, it is a threat to safety. People are struck by lightning, in many cases...
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Hurricane Katrina: The Meteorology
Hurricane Katrina was historic, not just for size and strength but for way it hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and southeastern Louisiana. It led to death, destruction, displacement, and suffering, particularly in New Orleans. See the...
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Weather Things: The Sun's Role
The 3 simple ingredients of sun, air and water lead to every type of weather on Earth. The atmosphere is constantly trying to balance heat from the sun with water vapor and air to create a dynamic planet. The unique properties of the...
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Weather Things: Weather Cycles
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
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Grid Waves
Sometimes waves arrive at a beach or shore in the shape of a grid. Here's how that may happen.
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Weather Things: Storms
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
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Asperitas
A new designation of clouds is Asperitas. This video gives real examples of the wavy and odd looking features.
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Water Smart: Water on Earth - Lakes
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
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Weather Things: Hybrid Clouds
Clouds manifest moisture condensed in the air. In this program they are appreciated and pondered. Clouds give clues to wind direction, humidity levels, weather patterns, and they just make pretty sights. We look at the basic type of...
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Flight Passenger, Left Side Window View
A celebration of cloud types, colors, heights and textures, as seen out the window of a passenger airplane.
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NASA | Preparing for GOES-R at NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed
The future brings the unknown, and weather forecasts are all about seeing the future. NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed brings top weather forecasters and research scientists together to learn about the latest tools and techniques. In...
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NASA | Supercomputer Model Shows the Flow of #Blizzard2016
A NASA Center for Climate Simulation supercomputer model that shows the flow of #Blizzard2016 thru Sunday, January 24, 2016. * Note: Fixed a typo in the caption - changing the date from 2015 to 2016.
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NASA | Intern Profile – Jorel Torres
Summer intern Jorel Torres, a graduate student from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, talks about snow research and the value of hard work, persistence, and passion.
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NASA | Hurricane Danielle Churns in the Atlantic
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of Hurricane Danielle on August 26 at 1555 UTC. At this time, she was a category 2 storm with winds of 90 knots and a...
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Weather Things: Man-Made Clouds
Clouds manifest moisture condensed in the air. In this program they are appreciated and pondered. Clouds give clues to wind direction, humidity levels, weather patterns, and they just make pretty sights. We look at the basic type of...
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Island Cloud Vortex
Downwind of isolated, small, mountainous islands, a curious feature known as an island cloud vortex can form. Visible from satellite, a series of them can line up as vortex streets of cloud vorticies.
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Wildfire Safety: Being Ready
How, when, and where wildfires happen, with a focus on safety. Wildfires need fuel and heat, so they can happen in any dry place. They are a natural part of Earth and they do have benefits. Most are caused by human activity. Wildfires...
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A Rainbow May be a Circle
A simple demonstration shows how a rainbow can be a full circle, depending on perspective.
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Heat Lightning
Heat lightning is a nickname given to frequent lightning seen in distant thunderstorms, often on a warm summer evening. It’s a misnomer or bad name, because it suggests that the storms are not dangerous. Heat lightning is regular...
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Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate - Percolation
The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate shows us how the sun produces heat to drive the water cycle. It's made clear that the water cycle continues in the absence of sunlight or heat. We learn how the two components of climate- temperature and...
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Weather Things: Lightning Properties
Lightning is spectacular, from a distance. It's nature's way of transferring electricity within the sky, or between the sky and the ground. When lightning is nearby, it is a threat to safety. People are struck by lightning, in many cases...
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Sun, Heat, Air and Wind: weather instruments, wind speed and direction
A curious pre-school child asks questions to a big kid about how weather works. Every answer is enlightening yet leads to another question. The little child learns that wind is air that moves, that may be gentle or strong and even...
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Weather Things: Unique Clouds
Clouds manifest moisture condensed in the air. In this program they are appreciated and pondered. Clouds give clues to wind direction, humidity levels, weather patterns, and they just make pretty sights. We look at the basic type of...
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Wildfire Safety: What are wildfires?
How, when, and where wildfires happen, with a focus on safety. Wildfires need fuel and heat, so they can happen in any dry place. They are a natural part of Earth and they do have benefits. Most are caused by human activity. Wildfires...