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A Long Wait for the Manta Ray
Season 2, Manta part 4. Kayne and Kamil face several false alarms and frustrations as they try to spot a manta ray but eventually they succeed and Kayne takes a photo of the creature. See a manta up close and learn a bit about other...
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I WONDER - Are All Snowflakes The Same?
This video is answering the question of are all snowflakes the same.
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I WONDER - Is Snow Really White?
This video is answering the question of is snow really white.
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Geography vs Geology: Understanding the Differences
In this video, the speaker explains the difference between geography and geology. It focuses on both nature and people, examining the distribution and arrangement of various human and natural activities on the planet's surface. The video...
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Stratus Clouds
Stratus Clouds are part of the water cycle. They are stratified, with soft edges, wider than they are tall, and found at mainly 3 different heights in the atmosphere. They can be made of water droplets or ice crystals, and some create...
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Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian was a powerful, devastating and deadly storm, especially for Florida, in 2022. With wind over 150mph, rain over 20” in some areas, and storm surge over 12 feet, Ian impacted millions of people, while taking over 150 lives....
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Vapor Trails
Vapor Trails are skinny lines of clouds made by airplanes, but not on purpose. They can spread out to become regular Cirrus Clouds and block some sunlight or trap some heat rising from Earth. We see vapor trails more than ever before,...
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Pileus Clouds
Pileus Clouds are also known as Cap Clouds or Scarf Clouds. They form over fast-growing cumulus or Cumulonimbus Clouds, in quiet or stormy weather, as a wispy, smooth band of clouds, curved like a contact lens.
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Lenticular Clouds
Lenticular Clouds are also known as Lenticularis because they are shaped like a lens. They are common over mountains where air is forced to rise and sink, forming smooth clouds above the mountains and downwind of the mountains. They also...
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Hurricane Andrew, 1992
Hurricane Andrew was one of the few hurricanes to strike the United States as a Category 5. At the time, in 1992, it was the most expensive natural disaster in the nation's history. After devastating Homestead, Florida, and surrounding...
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Great Miami Hurricane of 1926
The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 was the second strongest hurricane to strike Miami at that time. It was a Category 4, landing on September 18, 1926, after battering the Bahamas. The tremendous impact in Miami and South Florida was not...
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Fogbow
You've probably seen a fogbow but didn't notice, because they often blend with fog. A fogbow is a cousin of a rainbow, but generally without a lot of color. A fogbow appears as a bright arc in the tiny water droplets of fog. Fogbows form...
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Cumulus Clouds
Cumulus Clouds can fill the sky, in any season, anywhere on Earth, in different sizes, shapes, colors, heights and combinations. They bubble upward, looking like cotton balls or cauliflower. Cumulus clouds accumulate water or ice, and...
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Bomb Cyclone
A Bomb Cyclone is a middle-latitude low pressure storm system. It must have falling air pressure, measured by a barometer, losing at least 1 millibar per hour for 24 hours. When the pressure in a storm falls, the wind increases. You hear...
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Aurora
The Aurora has fascinated and intrigued people for ages. It is a display of light in Earth’s magnetosphere caused by high energy particles arriving to the planet in the solar wind. The Aurora is seen in both hemispheres. In the northern...
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Atmospheric River
Moisture, or water vapor in air, that is concentrated in a narrow band more than several hundred miles wide, and extends across oceans or continents for sometimes thousands of miles, is known as an Atmospheric River. In the Pacific...
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Vapor Cone
A Vapor Cone is a cloud around the rear of a very fast jet plane, in the shape of a cone, formed by quickly falling pressure, falling temperature, and rising relative humidity. It does not require a plane to break the sound barrier and...
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Gulf Coast Hurricane of July, 1916
A Category 3 hurricane made landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama State line on July 5, 1916, with record wind and storm surge impact in Mobile, Alabama, and then inland flooding throughout several states. Newspapers reported, “The...
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Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900
The Hurricane of 1900 striking Galveston, Texas, is known as the deadliest weather disaster in the United States. An estimated 8,000 people were killed by a hurricane that arrived with little notice, leaving over 10,000 people homeless,...
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Wildlife on Lady Elliot Island
Season 2, Manta part 3. As they wait for the weather to improve, Kayne and Kamil wander the island and learn about the unique ecosystem. They get a rare glimpse of the red-tailed tropic bird and its nesting habits then go in a sheltered...
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How to Fly Like a Sea Eagle
Season 2, Sea Eagles part 1. Kamil challenges Kayne to fly with a Sea Eagle, but first he'll have to learn how to fly and find a Sea Eagle. This is going to be one fun and precarious mission! Bushwhacked! is a high-energy search around...