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Websites For Learning All About Weather

1. About Temperature - Information on different kinds of thermometers, with a discussion of the physics behind temperature.
2. BBC: What is Weather? - Find out how our climate influences what kind of house we live in, what kind of sports we do, and what kind of clothes we wear. Compare different climates with each other.
3. Be a Weather Watcher - Pretend to be a meteorologist while learning about weather and climates.
4. Buckeye Wx - Weather data and weather related resources at Ohio State University.
5. Bureau of Meteorology - Worksheet provides an activity to learn about atmospheric pressure.
6. Bushfire Weather - Learn how fires, of both natural and human origin, have affected the environment of Australia. Includes weather patterns and maps.
7. Careers in Meteorology - Explains what a meteorologist does, why they do it, and the tools that help them do a better job.
8. Climate and Radiation - From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Includes information about aerosols, clouds, rainfall, remote sensing, current projects, publications and personnel.
9. Dan's Wild Weather Page - Newschannel 19's very own weather guru Dan Satterfield keeps us up to date with the latest weather news and explains all the scientific stuff as well.
10. Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment - Includes a weather section with detailed accounts on everything from anticyclones to wind. Printable and very easy to understand.
11. Franklin's Forecast - Exhibit about weather forecasting technologies with news topics about radar, storm tracking, satellites, and weather events
12. Freese-Notis Weather - Worldwide Meteorology - Source of weather information for agriculture, aviation, commodities, construction, energy, forensics, and transportation. NEXRAD radar imagery via InterRAD.
13. JetStream: An Online Weather School - Learn about synoptic meteorology, thunderstorms, and tropical weather.
14. Kid's PlayStation - All kinds of weather information, science project ideas, online activities, and printable pages. From the National Weather Service.
15. Live From the Storm - An interactive, animated weather resource for middle-school educators and students. Part of the Passport to Knowledge series.
16. Meteorology - What is it? - Worksheet about the ingredients that make up weather, atmospheric circulation, wind, and pressure systems.
17. NASA's Global Change Master Directory - A comprehensive directory of information about Earth science data, including a broad coverage of the oceans, atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid earth, biosphere and human dimensions of global change.
18. PlanetDiary - Highlights natural phenomena and current events from around the world.
19. Snow Crystals - Information about the physics of snow crystals and snowflakes as well as the history of early scientific observations and photographs, how to take photos, preserving snow crystals, and unusual snowflakes.
20. University of Reading, Department of Meteorology - Centre for teaching and research in meteorology.
21. UV Menace - Learn about how UV rays can cause cancer, the effect on the atmosphere, and how they hurt the ozone layer.
22. Weather - Learn how to report and predict the weather with these interactive activities and games. Requires Flash.
23. Weather By Giannetta - Articles on "Weather and Meteorology," El-Nino, Hurricanes, Tornadoes. Many weather charts/graphics/maps/pictures. Links to other weather sites, some as far away as the South Pole.
24. The Weather Doctor - Explores the science and beauty of weather, including a monthly almanac, weather history, weather elements and phenomena, weather and the arts.
25. Weathercation - Weather education information and products.
26. Weather and Climate Resources - From the Institute of Global Environment and Society. Includes links to maps, analyses, climate data and satellite images.
27. Weather Folklore - Provides many weather folklore sayings.
28. Weather One - Discusses several topics of weather including clouds, seasons, air pressure, winds, global warming, and violent weather. Also contains activities to give students a hands-on experience with weather.
29. Weather Wiz Kids   - Includes facts, folklore, games, jokes, experiments, and activities, written by a meteorologist.
30. Weather Words - The Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology offers definitions of some common forecasting terms, descriptions of phenomena and precipitation, as well as wind and sea terms.
31. WeatherQuestions.com - Concise and interesting answers to the most-often asked questions about the weather, arranged in alphabetical order.
32. Weather Legacy - Meteorology information including glossary, definition of meteorological scales, software, poetry, and links.
33. WeatherNex - From the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Includes forecasts, maps, models, radar and satellite images, weather cams and a collection of weather-related links.