SciJinks It's all about weather!

SciJinks It's all about weather!

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Postcards

Printable postcards to download and display.
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How Is Air Quality Measured?

Satellites orbiting above Earth monitor what’s in our air.
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What Is La Niña?

Learn about this weather pattern.

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Make Lightning with ZAP!

You're an updraft! In this game, build up charges within a storm cloud!
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Hi, I'm JPSS!

I’m a high-tech weather satellite that orbits our planet.
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How to Read a Weather Map

What do those symbols mean for tomorrow’s weather?

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Seeing a Solar Eclipse From Space

What do satellites see during a solar eclipse?
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Types of Clouds

Learn about common cloud types and what they can tell us about the weather!
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Why Don't Satellites Fall out of the Sky?

How do they all stay up there?

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Rainbow Clouds

Cloud iridescence looks amazing
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What Causes a Thunderstorm?

All thunderstorms have the same basic ingredients. Watch this video to learn more!
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Meet Cosmic-2

Learn more about this team of six small satellites that will collect information about Earth’s weather and climate.

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What Causes a Flood?

How do atmospheric conditions and an area’s geography cause a flood?
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What Is the Jet Stream?

Learn about these fast-moving ribbons of air that are high in our atmosphere.
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What Are Trade Winds?

Learn about how these winds that are important for sailors also influence our weather.

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What Are High and Low Pressure Systems?

Is air super heavy?
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The Most Extreme Weather in America

Check out five of the most extreme storms in US history and see what they looked like from the view of a NOAA weather satellite!
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SciJinks Glossary

Learn a bunch of weather terms!

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What Is a Gust Front?

Fast winds that fall from thunderstorms
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The Bad (Weather) Joke Machine

Guess the riddles before the Joke Machine coughs up the answers.
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What Causes a Rainbow?

Learn how to be in the right place at the right time.

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What Is Lake-Effect Snow?

Why do areas near big lakes get so much snow?
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Classroom Activities

PDF versions of our favorite activities!
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Why Does the Atmosphere Not Drift off Into Space?

After all, it is only air. What keeps it here?

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Why Is the Sky Blue?

This may sound like an easy question... it's not!
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Be an Expert Flight Controller

Use satellite sensor data to guide planes around hazards.
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How did Earth's atmosphere form?

Earth is on its third atmosphere! We wouldn't have liked the first two at all!

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Aurora Australis from the International Space Station

Aurora over the Indian Ocean on September 17, 2011.
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Weather Tricktionary

Are you a weather guru?
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Rainbow Simulator

See how angles and distances affect your view of rainbows.

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What causes lightning and thunder?

What is the source of all the blinding light and earth-shaking sound?
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What's the Difference Between Fog and Clouds?

Aren't they the same thing?
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SciJinks Wallpapers

Pick a SciJinks image for your desktop!

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Keeping an Eye on Volcanic Ash

To an aircraft, a volcanic ash cloud is like a sky full of broken glass.
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What Is a Polar Vortex?

And how does it cause such a freeze?
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What Is the Coriolis Effect?

And what does it have to do with hurricanes?

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Precipitation Simulator

Can you make it rain, snow, and hail? Try it out!
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What Is an Atmospheric River?

Learn more about these moving columns of water vapor in the sky!