Weather

Resource List

 

 

The Atmosphere

Explorations: Earth’s Atmosphere

 

Astronomy 161: The Earth’s Atmosphere

 

Zoom Astronomy: Earth’s Astronomy

 

Windows to the Universe

 

 

The Water Cycle

Learn about the different stages of the water cycle.

 

 USGS: Follow a drip through the water cycle.

 

Earth Floor: The water cycle.

 

Follow Drippy through the water cycle.

 

 

Clouds

How do clouds form?

 

Scholastic: Tracking Clouds in the Sky

 

Plymouth State University Meteorology Program Cloud Boutique

 

Sky Fire TV: Categories of Clouds

 

National Weather Service: How are clouds named and who named them?

 

Check out student websites about clouds.

 

 

 

Forecasting the Weather

Create your own weather station.

http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/weatherstation.html

http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/gather_data/

 

Scholastic Forecasting the Weather

 

National Weather Service: Wind Chill

 

 

Air Masses & Fronts

University of Illinois: Air masses and fronts

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/af/home.rxml

 

Learn about the different types of fronts.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/class/frntmass.html

 What are the different types of air masses and fronts?

http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/pao/Educate/WeatherTalk2/indexairmasse.htm#top

 

Geography 101: The Physical Environment, Weather Systems: Air Masses and Fronts

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/uwsp_lectures/lecture_fronts.html

 

 

Storms

Learn about thunder storms, lighting, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards & winter weather.

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/thunderhome.html

                                                        

Check out student websites about storms.

http://www.mcwdn.org/WEATHER/Storms.html

 

FEMA Storm Watch

http://www.fema.gov/

 

NOAA: Server Weather Safety Guide

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/severewx/safety.html

 

City and County of Honolulu: Thunderstorms and Lightning

http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/ocda/thunder.htm

 

What is tornado alley?

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tornado/alley.html&edu=mid

 

Tornado Project Online

http://www.tornadoproject.com/

 

National Geographic Eye in the Sky: Tornadoes

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/tornadoes/tornintro.html

 

NASA's Observatorium: Hurricanes  

http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/hurricane/splash.html

 

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/laescae.html

 

Hurricane Movie Catalog

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/movies/movies.html

 

National Geographic Eye in the Sky: Hurricanes

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/hurricanes/hurrintro.html

 

NASA’s Obervatorium: Wind Chill

http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/wind_chill/chill_splash.html

 

NOAA’s Winter Weather Safety and Awareness

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/winter/index.shtml

 

FEMA: Fact Sheet Winter Storms

http://www.fema.gov/hazards/winterstorms/stormsf.shtm

 

NOAA: Winter Storm Trivia

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/winter/TRIVIA.htm

 

 

Climate

Scholastic: Explore Climate Conditions.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/investigate/

 

El Nino

http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/archive/nino/

 

Check out student websites about climate.

http://www.mcwdn.org/WEATHER/Climate.html

 

 

General Weather Links

National Weather Service

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

 

NOAA’s National Weather Service: Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/

 

The Weather Channel

www.weather.com

 

Weather Images

http://www.weatherimages.org/