Topics
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What Is an Atmospheric River?
Learn more about these moving columns of water vapor in the sky!
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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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What Makes It Rain?
And what causes snow, hail, and ice rain?
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Be Ready to Help
Ever wonder how you can help out?
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What Causes a Rainbow?
Learn how to be in the right place at the right time.
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Weather Tricktionary
Are you a weather guru?
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What's the Difference Between Fog and Clouds?
Aren't they the same thing?
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Keeping a watchful eye on dangerous ice
What does the chief scientist for the National Ice Center do?
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How Do Snowflakes Form?
How does water form such intricate designs up there in the clouds?
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Snowflake Simulator
See how temperature affects the shape of snowflakes.
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Precipitation Simulator
Can you make it rain, snow, and hail? Try it out!
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Postcards
Printable postcards to download and display.
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What Is a Gust Front?
Fast winds that fall from thunderstorms
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SciJinks Glossary
Learn a bunch of weather terms!
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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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How to Read a Weather Map
What do those symbols mean for tomorrow’s weather?
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What Is an Ice Jam?
As winter melts away, chunks of ice can jam up rivers and cause flooding.
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What Is a Nor'easter?
Learn about this type of storm that forms along the East Coast of North America.
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What Is a Firestorm?
Some wildfires grow so large that they can create their own weather system.
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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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How Reliable Are Weather Forecasts?
It all depends on how far in advance you’re trying to forecast!
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Video: What Causes a Thunderstorm?
All thunderstorms have the same basic ingredients. Watch this video to learn more!
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What Is Precipitation?
This infographic will teach you about precipitation!
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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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Rainbow Clouds
Cloud iridescence looks amazing
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Posters
Print them small or print them large. You choose!