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Illustration of Earth with the jet stream on it.

What Is the Jet Stream?

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Illustration of Earth with arrows representing trade winds.

What Are Trade Winds?

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Flooding in the streets of downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

What Causes a Flood?

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Cartoon illustration of Bill the groundhog wearing a rain jacket in the rain.

What Is Precipitation?

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Cartoon illustration of a GOES-R series weather satellite in a thunderstorm with text reading WHAT CAUSES A THUNDERSTORM.

What Causes a Thunderstorm?

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Cartoon illustration of firefighters looking toward a wilfire.

How Do Wildfires Spread?

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An image of a weather forecast map from the National Weather Service.

How to Read a Weather Map

Learn what all of those symbols mean for tomorrow's weather!

Explore a GOES-R Series weather satellite! Click and drag to rotate the satellite. Scroll or pinch to zoom in and out. Then, learn about how the GOES-R series of weather satellites help monitor weather down here on Earth! Credit: NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD)

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