Dom Burgess
What Happens When You Are Struck By Lightning?
Third degree burns, brain damage and heart attacks. In this episode, Dom investigates what happens to your body when you are struck by lightning and why high voltage electricity is just, like, really not good for you! Prepare to be SHOCKED!
Visual Learning Systems
Weather in Action: Storms
This video examines the forces creating weather. The way in which atmospheric conditions and patterns cause changes in the weather is explained. Instruction on how to use a weather map and how we can predict tomorrow's weather is...
Mazz Media
Hurricane
This live-action video program is about hurricanes. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Tornado Statistics
Over a thousand tornadoes happen every year in the United States but only few dozen take lives. Most tornadoes are brief and weak but the tornadoes that are large and powerful can wipe homes off their foundations. Tornadoes only come...
FuseSchool
Lightning
A flash of lightning, and a rumble of thunder. But what exactly are these spectacular occurrences? In 1752, Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightning was caused by powerful electrical discharges in clouds. He wasn’t the first person to...
Science360
Science Behind The News: Tornadoes
Tornadoes are violent, twisting columns of air with wind speeds over 100 miles per hour that can tear communities apart. Josh Wurman, an atmospheric scientist, explains that tornadoes develop in a special type of thunderstorm called a...
Science360
When Nature Strikes - Tornadoes
Tornadoes can form in minutes, making early and accurate warnings crucial to saving lives. Howard Bluestein at the University of Oklahoma and Adam Houston at the University of Nebraska are trying to understand why some storms produce...
Rachel's English
ENGLISH VOCABULARY | WEATHER VOCABULARY | LEARN ENGLISH | VOCABULARY FOR WEATHER Part 2
You can learn English vocabulary in the best possible way with this video—by learning the correct pronunciation of English words directly from an English speaking teacher that is also a native speaker! You’ll learn English pronunciation...
Weatherthings
Gust Front - Shelf Cloud
At times, an ominous cloud band forms on the forward or leading edge of a thunderstorm. It is part of the thunderstorm gust front, called a shelf cloud, because it hangs out in front of the storm like a shelf. It may be smooth on the...
Curated Video
How Tornadoes Form
This video provides a step-by-step process of how tornadoes evolve, from the heating of the land surface to the creation of a powerful vortex. Explore the unique characteristics of different types of tornadoes and why they occur.
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...
Extra English Practice
Vocabulary: Wake up vs Get up
English vocabulary lesson. Conversation practice activity.
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....
NASA
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...
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,...
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Do You Know When A Thunderstorm Is Near?
This video is answering the question of how do you know when a thunderstorm is near.
Weatherthings
Heat Lightning
Heat lightning is a nickname given to frequent lightning seen in distant thunderstorms, often on a warm summer evening. It’s a misnomer or bad name, because it suggests that the storms are not dangerous. Heat lightning is regular...
Learning Mole
Storms
A series that is perfect for PHSE and primary school students, each video will cover a dangerous situation and how to go about staying safe if ever students find themselves in these situations. This episode focuses on what to do when you...
Visual Learning Systems
Types of Storms and Their Characteristics
This video provides an overview of different types of storms, including snowstorms, thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes. It explains the characteristics and formation of each type of storm, highlighting their destructive potential...
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,...
Weatherthings
How Hail Forms
Hail forms inside clouds when water droplets rise into air that’s below freezing, and freeze. In a thunderstorm, water droplets are lifted by an updraft to become ice. The longer the ice stays in the freezing air, the more layers of ice...
Mazz Media
Tornado
This live-action video program is about tornadoes. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Weather Beauty
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,...