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Storms: Understanding Extreme Weather Phenomena
This video provides a comprehensive overview of storms, explaining their definition, potential effects, measurement on the Beaufort scale, and different types. Learn about snowstorms, tropical cyclones, windstorms, and more. Understand...
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Classifying Storms
In this video, we learn about the different scales used to classify storms in various regions around the world. These scales, such as the Saffir Simpson scale and the India Meteorological Department scale, help scientists and researchers...
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Hands on Weather - Air
Six simple weather demonstrations you can do at home or at school to show the properties of air, using your hands and everyday materials.
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Hurricane Matthew: The Meteorology
Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti in 2016 as the most powerful hurricane in that country in half a century. Hundreds were killed, and hundreds were injured. Millions were impacted in Haiti. Hurricane Matthew went on to Cuba and then the...
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How Hail Forms
Hail forms inside clouds when water droplets rise into air that’s below freezing, and freeze. In a thunderstorm, water droplets are lifted by an updraft to become ice. The longer the ice stays in the freezing air, the more layers of ice...
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Weather Things: Aurora and Unique Phenomena
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
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How We Forecast the Weather
Humans have been observing weather since ancient times. This video provides an overview of weather forecasting, highlighting its importance in various aspects of our daily lives. It explains how weather is predicted using advanced...
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Hurricane Katrina: The Impact on Society
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: Hurricane Forecasting
For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...
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Weather Things: Floods
The cycle of water from the air to the ground to the oceans and back to the air never ends. Water is found in the air, in the ground, in rivers and oceans, and it's found as gas, liquid, and solid. As it moves though phases and locations...
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Exploring Space Weather
In this video, we explore the weather in space, focusing on the sun and its impact on Earth. We learn about solar wind, auroras, solar storms, and their effects on our communication systems and astronauts in space. The video highlights...
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Weather Things: Weather Beauty
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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Cloud Shadows and Crepuscular Rays
Instead of focusing on the light in the sky, this focuses on the dark bands and streaks and what causes them.
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Sun, Heat, Air and Wind: wind and storms, cool air properties, predictions, summary
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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Hurricane Sandy: The Meteorology
What led to the unique path of Hurricane Sandy in 2016 and why it had such a large impact, as the second most-costly hurricane to hit the United States in modern times. It was nicknamed a superstorm for the wide impact it had in the...
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Weather Things: Wind
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: Atmosphere
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: Water Phases
The cycle of water from the air to the ground to the oceans and back to the air never ends. Water is found in the air, in the ground, in rivers and oceans, and it's found as gas, liquid, and solid. As it moves though phases and locations...
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Weather Things: Energy
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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Water Smart: Water in the Air - Rain
Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...
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Storms: high wind, snow storms, tornadoes
Children on a playground use creativity and their imaginations to simulate the many different types of storms found on Earth. From thunderstorms to wind storms, to snow storms and rain storms, to hurricanes and tornadoes, the children...
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Clouds, Rain and the Water Cycle: clouds, radar, meteorologist
A rainy day spent inside helps a little boy learn about clouds and the water cycle from his mother. He sees the value of rain to plants, animals, people and the planet, even when the rain is not convenient for him. As the rain...
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Iridescence in Clouds
Iridescence in clouds, also called irisation, is when light is scattered by water droplets, ice crystals, or even tiny particles floating in air like pollen. You can spot blue, pink, red, purple and other colors.
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Weather Things: Tornado Mysteries
Over a thousand tornadoes happen every year in the United States but only few dozen take lives. Most tornadoes are brief and weak but the tornadoes that are large and powerful can wipe homes off their foundations. Tornadoes only come...