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Hi-Tech Data Center

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Supercomputers: Machine Meteorologists That Help Issue Your Forecast

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About the National Snow and Ice Data Center

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Sky Watchers: Perplexed by These Rainbow-Colored Clouds?

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What Is Graupel?
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From Inauguration to Earth Day: The Rise of the Science March Movement
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Groundhog Day Forecasts: Accurate or Amiss?
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What Is Virga Precipitation?
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Types of Natural Disasters
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Wedge Tornadoes: Nature's Largest Twisters
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Which is Better: Weatherproof Or Weather-Resistant?
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The Water Cycle
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NFL Games with the Record Worst Weather
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What Is a Drought?
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Afraid of the Atmosphere: Weather-Related Phobias
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9 Must-See U.S. Weather Roadside Attractions
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Why Car Interiors Get So Hot in Summer
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What Is a Land Breeze?
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Muggy Weather
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How Your Christmas Forecast Foretells of Weather to Come In the New Year
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Why Does it Rain?
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The 10 Basic Types of Clouds (and How to Recognize Them in the Sky)
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Blackberry Winter: A Cold Snap Rooted in Folklore
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5 Toasty Tips for Staying Warm in Winter Weather
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What Temperature Is Rain?
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How to Demonstrate that Air Has Mass
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Keeping Your Pets Safe from Summer Heat
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What is Convection?
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Is Climatology the Same as Meteorology?
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Your 2017 Calendar of Weather Holidays, Seasons, and Safety Days
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Why Is Snow White?
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What is Meteorology?
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Air Pressure
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How Nature Warns of a Hard Winter (In Summer and Fall)
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What is Ambient Air Temperature?
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What is the Leeward vs. Windward Side of a Mountain?
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Atmospheric Stability: Encouraging or Deterring Storms
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Weather Project: How to Prove Air Has Volume (Takes Up Space)
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Fall: Meet the Season with Two Names
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What Are Zulu Time And Coordinated Universal Time?
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Weather Songs in the Classroom: A Lesson Guide for Teachers
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Measuring Wind Speed in Knots
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Introduce Kids to Weather with Coloring Pages
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Weather Warning Flags
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What Makes a Good Umbrella?
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What Your Weather Dreams Are Trying to Tell You
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6 Basic Facts Everyone Should Know About Clouds
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U.S. Aviation Weather Maps & Symbols
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Where Does Weather Folklore Come From?
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Why Is the Sky Blue?
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Why Is Wind Speed Slower Over Land Than Over Ocean?
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Fog: The Lost Member of the Cloud Family
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When Was the Very First 'White Christmas'?
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Types of North American Air Masses
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Weather and Climate: What's the Difference?
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Our Atmosphere: How it Makes Life and Weather Possible
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The 'Dog Days' of Summer
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Summer: The Sunshine Season
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What Makes the Wind Blow in Gusts?
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Weather: What It Is and Why We Have It
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Synoptic Scale vs. Mesoscale Weather Systems
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How High In the Sky Are Clouds?
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Why is Water's Temperature Always Cooler than Air's (Even in Summer)?
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Can Crickets Really Tell You the Temperature Outside?
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How to Tell If You Have a Weather Phobia
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Top Weather Songs of the 21st Century
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How Geography Shapes Regional Weather of the United States
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Why 'Bank Thermometers' Can't Be Trusted
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What's a Citizen Scientist?
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Wind Chill
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Why are Autumn Skies So Strikingly Blue?
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March Weather: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
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What is a Diurnal Temperature Range?
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7 Festivals That'll Make You Want to Celebrate Weather
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9 Gift Ideas For the Weather Geeks in Your Life
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Weather Safety Slogans
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What Temperature is 'Room Temperature'?
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What is a Weather Front?
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Why Do Heat Index and Wind Chill Temperatures Exist?
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The 5 Layers of the Atmosphere
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How to Read a Barometer
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How does a Thermometer Measure Air Temperature?
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An Introduction to Upper Air Charts
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How Weather & Climate in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres Differs
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The WMO International Cloud Atlas
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The Weather and Folklore of Altocumulus Clouds
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9 Reasons to Become a Meteorologist
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Contrails: The Controversial Cloud
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Isobars
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What is a Kelvin-Helmholtz Cloud?
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Why Do You Sweat?
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How to Be a Storm Chaser
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Weather Vanes: A Brief History
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How Do Clouds Form?
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Mare's Tail and MacKerel Scales in Weather Folklore
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