Weather and Climate
Rain or shine, learn how the weather works by exploring the science behind daily forecasts, weather safety, and climate change.
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Weather Games and Simulations
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Drought Causes, Stages, and Problems
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A Geography and Overview of Earth's Arctic Region
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The Jet Stream
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The 10 Basic Types of Clouds
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What Your Weather Dreams Are Trying to Tell You
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Understanding Zulu Time and Coordinated Universal Time
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How to Read a Barometer
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A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Ambient Air Temperature
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The Mount Pinatubo Eruption in the Philippines
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Air Pressure and How It Affects the Weather
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The 5 Layers of the Atmosphere
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Weather Folklore: Mother Nature's Winter Predictions
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The Origin of the Blackberry Winter
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What Is an Overcast Sky?
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Why Is Snow White?
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Is There Any Upside to Global Warming?
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What Is Environmental Determinism?
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What Causes Rainbow-Colored Clouds in the Sky?
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Which Is Better: Weatherproof or Weather-Resistant?
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9 Reasons to Become a Meteorologist
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How Do Clouds Form? Cloud Ingredients and Formation
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5 Air Masses That Determine U.S. Weather Systems
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Why Is Wind Speed Slower Over Land than Over Ocean?
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Our Four Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn
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A Brief History of Weather Vanes
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Which Way Does the Wind Blow?
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What Is Smog?
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Köppen Climate Classification System
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Why Do Heat Index and Wind Chill Temperatures Exist?
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Pluvial Lakes
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How Weather Affects Fall Colors
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Do You Know What a Weather Front Is?
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What Is a Land Breeze?
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Why Is the Aral Sea Shrinking?
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Categories of Hurricanes
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Synoptic Scale vs. Mesoscale Weather Systems
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Atmospheric Stability: Encouraging or Deterring Storms
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Understanding the Various Temperatures of Rain Drops
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An Overview of the Last Global Glaciation
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The Windward Versus Leeward Side of a Mountain
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What Are the Clouds That Look Like Breaking Waves?
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Mare's Tail and MacKerel Scales in Weather Folklore
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Winds and the Pressure Gradient Force
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Nitrogen: Gases in the Atmosphere
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What Is Virga Precipitation?
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Why Do You Sweat?
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Top 10 Weather Songs of the 1980s
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Introduction to Upper Air Charts
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The Fundamentals of the Intertropical Convergence Zone
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An Overview of El Nino and La Nina
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The World's Highest Recorded Temperatures
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How to Demonstrate That Air Has Mass
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Convection and Weather
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The Next Ice Age
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Measuring Wind Speed in Knots
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Causes of Wind Gusts and Squalls
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Atmospheric Science: What Is an Ozone Warning?
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Understanding Diurnal Temperature Range
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The Basics of Air Pressure
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An Overview of Municipal Waste and Landfills