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Weather Things: Energy
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,...
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PHYSICS - Electricity - 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...
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Mammatus Clouds
Clouds can be strange or odd, with texture that might remind you of grapes or upside-down bubbles. Often around thunderstorms, you might spot mammatus clouds. They form when cloud water droplets or ice crystals sink into dry air,...
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Severe Weather Safety: Watch for the Warning
All thunderstorms create hazards of lightning. Some thunderstorms result in flash flooding, large hail, damaging wind or a tornado. See how to prepare for these threats at school, at home, or outside. Understand the difference between a...
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Weather Things: Seasons
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,...
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Weather Things: Weather Impacts
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,...
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Lightning Trench
When lightning strikes trees and other tall objects, it doesn't just stop. It may run along or just beneath the ground where the intense heat turns soil moisture into steam that blows the soil outward, to instantly create what is called...
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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...
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Understanding Lightning
This video explains the science behind lightning and its dangers. It discusses how charges build up in storm clouds, leading to an electrical discharge between the cloud and the ground. This video is part of the 9-part series, Electricity.
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Weather Things: Weather
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,...
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Reflected Lightning
Beautiful passing Thunderstorm with multiple Lightning strikes and a small body of water near the camera reflecting the Lightning Strikes. Photo sequence captured on a Canon Rebel T1i, processed images in Photoshop and created Timelapse...
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Incredible lightning storm with almost non stop lightning. Many forked cloud to ground lightning bolts, crawler lightning and shorted branched and forked lightning bolts. At night.
Incredible lightning storm with almost non stop lightning. Many forked cloud to ground lightning bolts, crawler lightning and shorted branched and forked lightning bolts. At night.
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Bright, branched forked lightning strikes ground from daytime thunderstorm during Arizona Monsoon season, USA
Bright, branched forked lightning strikes ground from daytime thunderstorm during Arizona Monsoon season, USA