Weatherthings
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...
Crash Course Kids
Severe Weather
So, what's the difference between 'weather' and 'severe weather'? Is it just how hard the wind is blowing? Is it just thunder and lighting? Well, it can be some or all of those things. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks...
Crash Course Kids
Severe Weather
So, what's the difference between 'weather' and 'severe weather'? Is it just how hard the wind is blowing? Is it just thunder and lighting? Well, it can be some or all of those things. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks...
Weatherthings
Derecho
A derecho is a large line or band of powerful or severe thunderstorms that creates a wind damage area more than 400 miles long and more than 60 miles wide. The thunderstorms in a derecho produce downbursts and sometimes tornadoes. Winds...
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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...
Curated Video
Hazardous Weather Solution
“Hazardous Weather Solution” discusses the damage that can result from common natural disasters, including hurricanes, blizzards, thunderstorms, and tornadoes.
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,...
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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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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...
Curated Video
Types of Severe Weather
“Types of Severe Weather” describes weather events such as hurricanes, tornados, dust storms, and northeasters.
NASA
NASA/NOAA | Countdown to GOES-O Severe Weather Satellite Launch
NASA is preparing for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O (GOES-O) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The GOES-O launch is targeted for June 26 during a launch...
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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...
National Geographic Kids
Learn About Thunderstorms | Nat Geo Kids Weather Playlist
Discover the very best videos about weather YouTube has to offer - brought to you by National Geographic Kids! ➡ Subscribe for more National Geographic Kids videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToNatGeoKids ➡ Watch more Weather videos:...
Curated Video
Understanding the Destructive Force of Hail
Discover what hail is and how it is formed during thunderstorms. This video discusses the specific conditions needed for hail to form and the differences between hail, snow, and sleet. It also highlights the hazards and damages that...
Curated Video
Natures Destructive Force
Dr. Forrester explains how wind and thunderstorms drive tornadoes and hurricanes.
NASA
NASA | Tornadoes with Tim Samaras
Credits: NASA, NOAA In this video severe storm researcher and engineer Tim Samaras talks about his view on tornadoes and what remains to be understood. He also covers the importance of satellite imagery to his research.
NASA
NASA/NOAA | GOES-O: Countdown To Launch
In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to NASA GOES N-P Deputy Project Manager Andre' Dress, about the factors that...
Crash Course
Humans and Energy: Crash Course World History 207
In which Stan Muller subs for John Green and teaches you about energy and humanity. Today we discuss the ideas put forth by Alfred Crosby in his book, Children of the Sun. Historically, almost all of the energy that humans use has been...
Curated Video
Miraculous Plane Landing on New Orleans Levee
A severe thunderstorm forced a Boeing 737 to attempt an emergency landing on the most unlikely, impossible place: a New Orleans levee. From: AIR DISASTERS: Nowhere to Land http://bit.ly/1jTGJgQ
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Tornado Formation
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...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water in the Air - Rain
Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...
Let's Tute
Introduction to Bar Diagrams and Pictorial Representation of Data
In this video, the teacher explains how to organize and represent data using bar diagrams. They cover different types of bar diagrams, such as simple, joint, and subdivided, and explain the importance of proper scaling and labeling. The...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Lightning Safety
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: Lightning Properties
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...