A strong hurricane can spell disaster. These huge storms are the most powerful of all weather systems. Learn about how they form and the impacts they can have.
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Snowflakes are not the only type of icy precipitation. Find out about other types of ice that fall from the sky.
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Will freezing rain cause an ice storm? Will it rain or snow? Each of these different types of precipitation is possible with a winter storm.
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A monsoon is not a storm like a hurricane or a summer thunderstorm, but a much larger pattern of winds and rain that spans a continent or even the entire globe.
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Can you predict if it will rain, sleet, or snow? Test your forecasting skills!
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Some snowflakes are made of a single ice crystal while other, more elaborate, snowflakes are made of as many as 200 ice crystals fused together.
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Lightning is the most spectacular element of a thunderstorm. Learn how lightning forms, how lightning leads to thunder, and about the three different types of lightning.
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Right now there are about two thousand thunderstorms going on around the world. Thunderstorms bring intense rain, hail, wind, lightning, thunder, and even tornadoes.
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A dark funnel of cloud extends below a storm. If it reaches the ground, it’s a tornado.
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Tornadoes, also called twisters, are columns of air rotating dangerously fast. Find out where they happen.
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