Weather Forcasts and Maps
- NOAA.gov
- Weather Underground (I like looking at the "current conditions" map)
General Weather Links
- Windows to the universe (information on Earth's water, climate, atmosphere, and more)
- Multiple lists of top 10 cities for different weather "extremes"
- List of weather box symbols
Atmosphere
- Rader's Geography4kids.com (brief description of layers)
Thunder & Lightning
WindAir Masses
Fronts (boundaries between air masses)
- Animation of 4 fronts (warm, cold, stationary, occluded)
- Animation (warm & cold fronts)
- Animation (precipiation along a cold front)
- Animation (precipitation along a warm front)
- NOAA JetStream
- University of Illinois atmospheric sciences
- Low pressure system
Coriolis Effect
Cyclones vs. Anticyclones
- Animation showing direction of cylcones and anticyclones
- Satellite images showing fronts and cyclones
Hurricanes
- NASA - How do hurricanes form?
- Weather WizKids - Hurricanes (has animation of storm surge)
- BBC News hurricane animation
- List of quantities of hurricanes, deaths, and damage ($)
- University of Illinois - Tropical Depressions
- University of Illinois - Tropical Storm
- Map showing where hurricanes impact the U.S.
Tornadoes
- BBC News tornado animation
- UCAR.edu "kid's crossing" how tornadoes form
- Diagram of supercell parts showing updrafts and downdrafts with precipitation.
- Video: weatherman explains tornado formation
- Video: weather channel how tornadoes form
- Video: Channel 5 Ohio how tornadoes form
- Animation: Prentice Hall tornado formation
- Animation showing air movement
