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Doppler radar
A large window looking at a forested exterior, four hand-drawn blue raindrops, and a hand holding a phone displaying a pie chart showing a 60% chance of partly cloudy skies, and a 40% chance of rain.
weather conditions Torricelli, Evangelista cyclogenesis Hurricane Hyacinth
Know about the development of a thunderstorm prediction model that can run on a laptop
How do tornadoes form?
weather model of Edward Lorenz
Understand meteorologist Edward Lorenz's chaos theory
For Students
Hurricane Katrina
weather forecasting summary
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rain. Child in the rain, wearing a rain coat, under a yellow umbrella. April Showers weather climate rain storm water drops
April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs
Archaea at Midway Geyser Basin in the Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Largest hot spring in Yellowstone, third largest in the world. Temp. 147-188F Dim. 250x380 ft. Archaeon, archeon, Yellowstone Geysers, algae
How the Earth Works: A Quiz
Iceland, Glacier lagoon (Jokulsarlon)
Winter Weather Words Quiz
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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Dancers at a Cinco de Mayo festival at the Mission District, San Francisco, California. (Photo dated 2019.) holidays
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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.
7 Deadliest Weapons in History
Periodical Cicada, Adult, Magicicada spp. Requires 17 years to complete development. Nymph splits its skin, and transforms into an adult. Feeds on sap of tree roots. Northern Illinois Brood. This brood is the largest emergence of cicadas anywhere
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Amendments 1-10 to the Constitution of the United States constitute what is known as the Bill of Rights on an American flag.
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Berries and leaves of the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) plant. Poisonous plant
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What does “percentage of rain” actually mean? 
It's not an exact science, but we'd bring an umbrella just in case.
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Know about the development of a thunderstorm prediction model that can run on a laptop
Learn about a thunderstorm prediction model that can be run on a laptop computer.
Video: © University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
How do tornadoes form?
Learn how tornadoes form.
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Understand meteorologist Edward Lorenz's chaos theory
Learn about meteorologist Edward Lorenz and his contribution to chaos theory.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Why the word tornado was banned from American weather forecasts
Learn how the Tri-State Tornado of 1925 made meteorologists use the word tornado...
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Know about the hurricanes, its formation, and the challenges in forecasting
Learn how hurricanes form in this interview with John P. Rafferty, earth and life...
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Learn about the ever-shifting writing and filming schedule of a TV meteorologist
Job description of a television meteorologist.
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Doppler radar
Doppler radars, such as this one operated by the U.S. National Weather Service at...
Eric Kurth, NOAA/NWS/ER/WFO/Sacramento
weather conditions
Comparing weather conditions for St. Louis and Chicago on a given day.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Torricelli, Evangelista
Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli, inventor of the mercury...
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cyclogenesis
Cyclogenesis: evolution of a wave (frontal) cyclone.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Hurricane Hyacinth
The well-defined eye and the rain bands of Hurricane Hyacinth about 805 kilometres...
Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; photograph, AP/Wide World Photos
weather model of Edward Lorenz
The weather model of meteorologist Edward...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Hurricane Katrina
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image of Hurricane Katrina,...
NOAA
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