Cumulus Clouds can fill the sky, in any season, anywhere on Earth, in different sizes, shapes, colors, heights and combinations. They bubble upward, looking like cotton balls or cauliflower. Cumulus clouds accumulate water or ice, and...

A Bomb Cyclone is a middle-latitude low pressure storm system. It must have falling air pressure, measured by a barometer, losing at least 1 millibar per hour for 24 hours. When the pressure in a storm falls, the wind increases. You hear...

Moisture, or water vapor in air, that is concentrated in a narrow band more than several hundred miles wide, and extends across oceans or continents for sometimes thousands of miles, is known as an Atmospheric River. In the Pacific...

A Category 3 hurricane made landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama State line on July 5, 1916, with record wind and storm surge impact in Mobile, Alabama, and then inland flooding throughout several states. Newspapers reported, “The...

The Hurricane of 1900 striking Galveston, Texas, is known as the deadliest weather disaster in the United States. An estimated 8,000 people were killed by a hurricane that arrived with little notice, leaving over 10,000 people homeless,...

Learn the basics about the water cycle as part of the environmental chemistry topic. This also features in the Biology course too.

This beautiful program illustrates the key components of the water cycle that occurs everywhere around us. Concepts and terminology: condensation, evaporation, precipitation, cloud, rain, snow, sleet, and hail.

The Rocky Mountains supply water to more than 60 million homes in the West, but this crucial water shed is in peril due to a tiny insect called the mountain pine beetle. Scientists Reed Maxwell of Colorado School of Mines and John...

This live-action video program is about precipitation. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...

At a time when the world faces a multitude of potential calamities ranging from climate change to water pollution and plastic pollution, to rapid population growth, the solution may well be in the sea around us. “It is water,...

In this program Bailey learn follows a rainstorm from the beginning to the end.

Through his magical magnifying glass, he comes to understand what happens to cause a rainstorm and why? Bailey learns how people are affected by rain...

Hurricane Michael was a late-season storm in 2018 that grew to become the most powerful hurricane on record to hit the central Florida Panhandle. After landfall as a Category 4 storm, it remained a major hurricane, moving into Georgia....

The nearly 10 million people in the city and county of Los Angeles, California require a lot of water -- most of which is imported snow melt from the Eastern Sierra Nevadas and Rocky Mountains, hundreds of miles away. UCLA researchers...

Hurricane Harvey rapidly strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017, before making landfall in Texas, as one the strongest hurricanes there in over 50 years. The high wind quickly faded after landfall, but the rain continued as the storm...

Hurricane Dorian was the most powerful storm known ever to hit the Bahamas. Dorian remained over the northern Bahamas for more than two days as a category five storm. It tied for the second most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic as it...

Does the ocean reveal anything about the impact of climate change on the global water cycle?

Learn about how the Moon formed in this conversation with Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute.

Bailey is planning a fun summer day's activity with Boggs. Bailey realizes that knowing what the weather will be is important and comes to understand that the middle of the day is the hottest time. They learn about keeping themselves...

How do plants use water to live and grow? How does water help the human body? What food contains the highest amount of water? Properties Of Water, Part 3

Explore the fascinating process of rain and the water cycle. From evaporation to condensation and ultimately precipitation, we learn how water transforms and falls from the sky. We also discover the different forms of precipitation, such...

Hurricane Sally made landfall, only moving at 3mph, leading to tremendous rainfall, and an extremely long period of hurricane-force winds for southwest Alabama and northwest Florida, in 2020. The impact was far worse than most people...

Florence was a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic in 2018 but after it made landfall on the North Carolina coast as a Category 1 and weakened to a tropical storm it did most of its damage. This slow-moving storm left record rainfall and...

Intense Hurricane Irma made 7 different landfalls in 2017 and became one of the most expensive hurricanes in the last hundred years, moving from the Caribbean to the Bahamas to the United States. Dozens of people were killed by the storm...

This video provides a comprehensive overview of clouds, explaining what they are, how they form, and their different types. It also highlights the role of clouds in the water cycle and their impact on weather patterns. The video...