Monsoons produce the very wet summers and dry winters that occur on nearly all of the tropical continents. 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 large geographic area – 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 types of lightning that occur.
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Right now there are about two thousand thunderstorms going on around the world. While common, they are dramatic with 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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Learn about the many factors that impact how much storm surge floods a coast as a hurricane or tropical storm comes ashore.
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Some places in the United States have more thunderstorms that other areas. What is the average number of thunderstorm days in your state?
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When it’s freezing outside, it can be icy too. People walking down the street find their feet sliding in directions that they didn’t intend. A few unlucky ones slip and fall. But have you ever wondered why we slip?
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