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Image captured by NOAA’s GOES-16 weather satellite that shows a long line of storm clouds moving across the Midwest with many flashes of lightning.

The Most Extreme Weather in America

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Types of Clouds

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

What Is Precipitation?

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What Causes a Thunderstorm?

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Cartoon illustration of firefighters looking toward a wildfire.

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!

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From space

Space Weather

Illustration of the Sun with the Earth in the background.

What is space weather and how can we monitor it?

Simulations

Simulate a Hurricane

Illustration of a cartoon boy with an ambrella standing in front of the SciJinks hurricane simulator.

Explore the relationship between sea surface temperatures and hurricane strength.

Weather

SciJinks Glossary

Learn a bunch of weather terms!

Wild Weather Jobs

Weather Satellite Controller

Tom Boyd and Byron Grisham control weather satellites orbiting Earth.

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)