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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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Air Quality: Why It Suffers in Summer
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What Is Graupel?
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Heat Waves Are the Most Deadly Weather Events
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What Is Smog?
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Summer Shark Attacks: Can Certain Weather Make You More Vulnerable?
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Autumn Leaf Color: What's Elevation Got to Do with It?
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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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Wedge Tornadoes: Nature's Largest Twisters
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Which Is Better: Weatherproof or Weather-Resistant?
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How to Find the Perfect Weather for Skydiving
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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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Why Car Interiors Get So Hot in Summer
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What Is a Land Breeze?
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What Causes 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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Understanding the Various Temperatures of Rain Drops
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Lab Activity: How to Demonstrate That Air Has Mass
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Convection and Weather
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How Climatology Is Different From Meteorology
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How to Make a Kids Weather Station at Home
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Why Is Snow White?
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What is Meteorology?
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The Basics of Air Pressure
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How Nature Warns of a Hard Winter Ahead
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A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Ambient Air Temperature
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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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Understanding 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 These Coloring Pages
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Understanding Weather Warning Flags
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What Your Weather Dreams Are Trying to Tell You
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Basic Facts Everyone Should Know About Clouds
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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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5 Types of North American Air Masses
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What Is the Difference Between Climate and Weather
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Summer: The Sunshine Season
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Learn the Causes Behind Gusts of Wind
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Why Does Weather Exist?
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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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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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What's a Citizen Scientist?
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Why Autumn Skies Are So Blue
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Understanding Diurnal Temperature Range
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7 Festivals That'll Make You Want to Celebrate the 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 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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