Weather!

 

Basic Weather Sites
Winter Weather Glossary - What's the difference between heavy snow and a blizzard? At this USA Today page, you'll learn all the official winter weather terminology, as defined by the National Weather Service.
Extreme Weather & Climate Events - information & facts about all sorts of weather topics
The Online Guides - Meteorology - These resources incorporate text, colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio and video to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences.
Extreme Science: How's the Weather? - lots of weather information
Weather: What Forces Affect Our Weather - the atmosphere, storms, snow & ice, forecasting & more
Bay Kids Weather Page - Learn about different types of weather events, read weather jokes, myths and real life weather stories, visit weather sites, and more. (Created by 6th graders!)
Billy & Maria - weather coloring books
Earth Science Enterprise - NASA studies the Weather
Musical Meteorology - weather tunes

Snow
Questions & Answers About Snow - Everything you ever wanted to know about snow is answered here by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. This site also includes a Snow Glossary and a Snow Fact Sheet.
Snow Crystals - all about snow crystals and snowflakes. Although a common meteorological phenomenon, snow crystal growth is a fascinating and poorly understood process in which remarkably complex and beautifully symmetric structures appear, quite literally, out of thin air." Best place to start on this Cal Tech site is the Snow Crystal Primer, where you'll learn the answer to questions such as "Is it really true that no two snow crystals are alike?"
National Snow & Ice Data Center - information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores

The Snowman
by
A Wonderful Spring Hill Student
(We don't use names on our web site.)

I wish it would snow so I could make a snowman. I really want to make a snowman this year, unlike last year when I couldn't make one. I want to make one with a carrot nose, and a scarf, a hat, twig arms, coal for eyes, and a mouth, and buttons. So if I could make a snowman it would be great. But I'm going to have to wait until next year to make my snowman.


Rain and The Water Cycle
Drippy, the Raindrop - follow Drippy the Raindrop's exciting adventures and learn about evaporation, precipitation, and the water cycle
The Water Cycle
Follow a Drop Through the Water Cycle

Wild Weather
Hurricane Storm Science - hurricane storm center
Eye in the Sky:Tornadoes - from National Geographic - also has links to info on Hurricanes
SkyDiary: Kidsorm - pictures and graphics and find links on tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes and storm chasing.

For School Use Only:

BrainPop

BrainPop is a subscription site with educational movies on lots of topics.

There are a number of movies
dealing with weather including these:

The Water Cycle
Weather - What's Stirring Up There
Climate Types
Temperature
Groundwater
Weather - Sure it's Raining, But Why is it Raining?
Weathering - Forces of Nature Take Their Toll

  Note: Teachers are not allowed to share our BrainPop password with students or parents,
but anyone may purchase a subscription to use this site!

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