Meteorology

Meteorology, or the study of weather, affects every person on the planet. Click the links to find out more below.

[|Franklin Institute Online: Weather and Climate] - This website provides resources for weather and climate.
===[|Make Lightning Strike] - This interactive website, provided by National Geographic, explains how and why lightning happens.===

====[|Lightning Strike] - (1:06) Watch as professional storm chasers put themselves in a dangerous position, and lightning strikes a little too close for comfort.==== media type="youtube" key="hORUSzOvUfM?version=3" height="349" width="425" align="center"

====[|Science of Storm Chasing] - This website includes many video clips of Discovery channel's Storm Chasers, including showing the technology involved, safety concerns, storm footage, tornado alley, and games.====

====[|Strong Warm Front Time Lapse] - (4:40) The first half of this video is really all that is needed, where you can observe cirrus clouds, followed by stratus, and eventually nimbostratus and gentle rain.==== media type="youtube" key="9QvsKf-IZQs?version=3" height="349" width="560" align="center"

[|Thunderstorm from the sky] - (0:17) View a cumulonimbus cloud with lightning from above the surrounding clouds.
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===[|Tornado Thinkquest] - This interactive website includes tornado formation, prediction, measuring, safety, and storm chasing.===

===[|Tornado Direct Hit] - This National Geographic produce series of video clips entails storm chasers placing their equipment in the path of a tornado.===

Flood - This 1972 publication details the events of Hurricane Agnes and the effects on Pennsylvania. At the time, this was the worst natural disaster the United States had ever experienced.