Visual Learning Systems
Weather Safety: Thunderstorm Safety
Staying safe in all kinds of weather and avoiding weather-related injuries are the focus of this practical video. Concepts and terminology: lightning, tornado, wind, hurricane, and safe shelter.
Mazz Media
Bailey's Big Back Yard: Powerful Weather
Bailey learns the way in which weather affects people all over the world. Through his adventure, he comes to understand how weather affects the clothes we wear, our homes as well as the animals and land all around us.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: Summer Weather
Learn about why thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other weather phenomena typically form during the summer.
Curated Video
What is a Thunderstorm?
Thunder, lightning, and rain are important elements of a thunderstorm. Discover how thunderstorms form and the three stages they go through. Also, learn the hazards associated with thunderstorms, including lightning, hail, tornadoes,...
Science360
Scientists peer into the heart of a nighttime thunderstorm
The heart of a nighttime thunderstorm, and new insights into how these storms form, revealed by Ed Bensman of the National Science Foundation. For more information: http://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=135631&org=NSF&from=news
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Thunderstorm Wind
Lightning is spectacular, from a distance. It's nature's way of transferring electricity within the sky, or between the sky and the ground. When lightning is nearby, it is a threat to safety. People are struck by lightning, in many cases...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Hurricane Formation
For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...
Curated Video
Power outages could linger for days after storms batter Texas again, leaving 1 dead
The "very active and highly impactful" pattern of severe weather in the central U.S. is not ending soon, the National Weather Service said. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
A 500-foot crane collapsed Wednesday at the Washington National Cathedral amid thunderstorms, damaging two buildings and several vehicles. No serious injuries were reported. Officials are still investigating what caused the crane to tip over.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Crane collapses at National Cathedral in DC
CAPTION: A 500-foot crane collapsed Wednesday at the Washington National Cathedral amid thunderstorms, damaging two buildings and several vehicles. No serious injuries were...
Curated Video
Photo shows lightning hitting Endeavour shuttle launch pad
11 July 2009
1. STILL shows lightning striking space shuttle Endeavour's launch pad
12 July 2009
2. Shuttle Endeavour's launch pad
NASA scrubbed the space shuttle Endeavour's Saturday evening launch after lightning struck at least 11...
Curated Video
Severe thunderstorms in the Dallas-area spawned at least one tornado Thursday. Authorities say the twister didn't cause any significant damage or injuries, but an 18-wheeler was blown over.
HEADLINE: Raw video: Severe storms spawn tornado in Texas
CAPTION: Severe thunderstorms in the Dallas-area spawned at least one tornado Thursday. Authorities say the twister didn't cause any significant damage or injuries, but several...
Curated Video
Search continues for victims of plane crash in sea off Lebanon
1. Pan of sea shore
2. Wide of Lebanese army soldiers and divers searching sea shore
3. Close of civil defence paramedic searching
4. Wide of Navy ship with helicopter flying above
5. Close of helicopters
6. Mid of ship
7. Ambulances...
Curated Video
Space - Pictures of Jupiter
New pictures taken by the Galileo space satellite reveal that one of Jupiter's moons is a hellish ball of energy. More than 30 volcanoes spew lava on Io while fountains emit an eerie blue light and a natural dynamo generates more...
Curated Video
Hundreds of century-old trees lay snapped in half and uprooted throughout Central Park on Wednesday after a severe thunderstorm with winds as high as 80 mph barreled through the city overnight
HEADLINE:Raw Video: Trees toppled in Central Park
CAPTION: Hundreds of century-old trees lay snapped in half and uprooted throughout Central Park in N.Y. on Wednesday after a severe thunderstorm with winds as high as 80 mph barreled...
Curated Video
WRAP Search continues for victims of plane crash ADDS search, hospital, vox pops
Khalde - 26 January 2010
Dawn pictures
1. Pan of sea shore
2. Wide of Lebanese army soldiers and divers searching sea shore
3. Close of civil defence paramedic searching
Khalde - 26 January 2010
4. Helicopter flying over navy ship
5....
Curated Video
Drenched Houston Area Gets More Rain, Flooding
Thunderstorms raced through the Houston area on Thursday, aggravating flooding in already drenched parts of the city as mandatory evacuations were ordered for low-lying neighbourhoods in a community about 50 miles (80 kilometres)...
Curated Video
Prague hit by heavy rain storm
Prague's famed medieval Charles Bridge was deserted for a short time on Tuesday afternoon as stormy weather sent people running for cover in the Czech capital. Millions of tourists from around the world visit the bridge each year. Prague...
Curated Video
Hailstorms and flooding in Paris
Unseasonal storms brought heavy rainfall and strong hail to Paris on Friday.
Some areas in the French capital have been on alert as an ongoing heatwave broke weather records this week.
Temperatures didn't drop...
Curated Video
Migrants moved from boat in thunderstorm off Libya
Thirty-four migrants including women and a small child who were rescued by a German sailboat have been successfully taken aboard a humanitarian ship in international waters north of Libya, despite a thunderstorm.
Curated Video
The Early Warning Systems That Protect Us From Extreme Weather
Early warning systems give people precious minutes — even seconds — to take shelter from extreme weather.
Curated Video
Engineer creates affordable protection against lightning surges
LEAD IN
A Kenyan engineer has developed a low-cost option to protect local people and property from the dangers posed by lightning.
He's developed a type of lightning arrester that can be installed on...
Curated Video
Engineer creates affordable protection against lightning surges
LEADIN
A Kenyan engineer has developed a low-cost option to protect local people and property from the dangers posed by lightning.
He's developed a type of lightning arrester that can be installed on...
Curated Video
4:3 Final preparations ahead of last shuttle flight
1. Wide of the space shuttle Atlantis on launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Centre
2. Wide of NASA (North American Space Agency) news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kathy Winters, Shuttle Weather Officer:
"For launch, our main concern...
Curated Video
An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris is missing after running into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil began a search mission off its northeastern coast
HEADLINE: Plane vanishes off Brazil; 228 aboard
CAPTION: An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris is missing after running into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil began a search...