Brave Wilderness
CAUGHT in a TYPHOON!
In this episode of On Location, Coyote and crew get caught in Typhoon Trami during their trip to Japan! Will a typhoon stop them from exploring a compound, catching frogs, or even entering the eye of the storm? Of course not!
NASA
NASA's Fermi Catches Gamma-ray Flashes from Tropical Storms
About a thousand times a day, thunderstorms fire off fleeting bursts of some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. These events, called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), last less than a millisecond and produce gamma...
NASA
NASA | Flying Around the Radar
The HIWRAP is the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler, a "conically scanning" Doppler radar, meaning it scans in a cone-shaped manner. Wind measurements are crucial for understanding and forecasting tropical storms...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Thunderstorm Ingredients
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...
Next Animation Studio
India, Bangladesh brace as super cyclone is poised for landfall
India and Bangladesh are evacuating millions before the path of Tropical Cyclone Amphan.
NASA
Hubble Watches Neptune’s Dark Storm Die
For the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured time-lapse images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence. A recent Hubble program called Outer Planets Atmosphere Legacy, or OPAL, provides yearly...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Katrina: The Meteorology
Hurricane Katrina was historic, not just for size and strength but for way it hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and southeastern Louisiana. It led to death, destruction, displacement, and suffering, particularly in New Orleans. See the...
History Hit
The Battle For North America: General Wolfe's impatience
What kind of attack did Wolfe plan? What were two major things that went wrong with the plan? The Battle For North America, Part 8
NASA
NASA | Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Create Antimatter
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons....
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NASA | Scanning a Snow Storm
On March 17, 2014 the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory flew over the East coast's last snow storm of the 2013-2014 winter season. This was also one of the first major snow storms observed by GPM shortly...
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NASA | Fermi Helps Scientists Study Gamma-ray Thunderstorms
Merging data on high-energy bursts seen on Earth by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with data from ground-based radar and lightning detectors, scientists have completed the most detailed analysis to date of the types of...
NASA
Five Years of GPM Storms
On February 27, 2019, we celebrate five years in orbit for the NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission, or GPM. Launched from Japan on February 27, 2014, GPM has changed the way we see precipitation. It has provided...
NASA
Intense String of Hurricanes Seen From Space
In 2017, we have seen four Atlantic storms rapidly intensify with three of those storms - Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria - making landfall. When hurricanes intensify a large amount in a short period, scientists call this process rapid...
NASA
A New Multi-dimensional View of a Hurricane
NASA researchers now can use a combination of satellite observations to re-create multi-dimensional pictures of hurricanes and other major storms in order to study complex atmospheric interactions. In this video, they applied those...
Next Animation Studio
Solar storm could kill global internet for months — study
Massive solar storms hit Earth every few decades, but the one in 1859 literally turned night into day, and fried Earth’s telegraph system.
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Weather Cycles
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
NASA
NASA's Iowa Flood Study Hangout
A soggy 2013 spring, with near record rainfall in some areas, has led to flood warnings in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. With the floodwaters come questions as millions brace for the next wave of thunderstorms: Will...
NASA
NASA | Sun for Kids
We look at the sun rising every day. It's bright, it's big and it warms us up. Our sun happens to be the brightest object in our universe and it has captured our curiosity and imaginations throughout history. Our sun is very dynamic and...
NASA
NASA | Saturn's Record-Setting Storm
Saturn's 2010 Great White Spot storm has set a new record for largest temperature change ever recorded for a storm on Saturn. By studying the monstrous disturbance using NASA's Cassini spacecraft, researchers spotted a massive belch of...
PBS
Why Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
It's impossible to say that climate change is responsible for any individual storm or hurricane, but climate change is making these storms stronger. How much stronger? It turns out, Hurricane Harvey is the ideal test case to measure how...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Storms
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...