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| Answers to the most common questions about the weather: clouds, thunderstorms,
tornadoes, hail, hurricanes, global warming, fronts, air pressure, and much more.
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| AEROSOLS |
| What are aerosols? |
| AIR |
| What is air made of? |
| How much does air weigh? |
| AIR MASS |
| What is an air mass? |
| What is an unstable air mass? |
| AIR PRESSURE (see PRESSURE) |
| ANTARCTICA |
| What kind of weather does Antarctica have? |
| ANTICYCLONE |
| What is an anticyclone? |
| ANVIL CLOUD |
| What is an anvil cloud? |
| --- B --- |
| BLIZZARD |
| What is a blizzard? |
| BLUE SKY |
| Why is the sky blue? |
| --- C --- |
| CLIMATE |
| What is climate? |
| CLOUDS |
| How do clouds form? |
| What types of clouds are there? |
| CLOUD SEEDING |
| What is cloud seeding? |
| COLD FRONTS (see fronts) |
| CONDENSATION |
| What is condensation? |
| CONDENSATION NUCLEI |
| What are condensation nuclei? |
| CONTRAILS |
| What are jet contrails made of? |
| CONVECTION |
| What is convection? |
| CYCLONE |
| What is a cyclone? |
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| DEGREE-DAYS |
| What are degree-days? |
| DESERTS |
| Why are deserts so hot? |
| DEW |
| How does dew form? |
| DEWPOINT |
| What is dewpoint temperature? |
| DOWNBURST |
| What is a downburst? |
| DRIZZLE |
| What is drizzle? |
| DUST DEVILS |
| What causes dustdevils? |
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| EARTH-IMPACTING ASTEROIDS |
| "Aussie Bloke" and his end-of-world theory |
| EVAPORATION |
| What is evaporation? |
| --- F --- |
| FORECASTING |
| How are weather forecasts made? |
| FOG |
| What causes fog? |
| FREEZING RAIN |
| What causes freezing rain? |
| FRONTS |
| What is a "cold front"? A "warm front"? |
| FROST |
| What causes frost? |
| FUNNEL CLOUD |
| What is a funnel cloud? |
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| GLACIERS |
| What causes glaciers? |
| GLOBAL WARMING |
| What is global warming? |
| Dr. Roy Spencer on Global Warming |
| GREENHOUSE EFFECT |
| What is the greenhouse effect? What are greenhouse gases? |
| GUST FRONT |
| What is a gust front? |
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| HAIL |
| What causes hail? |
| HALOS |
| What causes halos? |
| HEAT LIGHTNING |
| What is heat lightning? |
| HIGH PRESSURE (see PRESSURE) |
| HURRICANES |
| What causes hurricanes? What is the hurricane "eye"? |
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| ICE PELLETS (SLEET) |
| What causes ice pellets (sleet)? |
| INFRARED RADIATION |
| What is infrared radiation? |
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| JET STREAM |
| What causes the jet stream? |
| --- L --- |
| LAKE-EFFECT SNOW |
| What causes lake effect snow? |
| LIGHTNING |
| What causes lightning? |
| LOW PRESSURE (see PRESSURE) |
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| MEGACRYOMETEORS |
| What causes megacryometeors? (Falls of large ice masses) |
| MONSOON |
| What is a monsoon? |
| --- N --- |
| NOR'EASTER |
| What is a nor'easter? |
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| OZONE HOLE |
| What is the ozone hole? |
| OZONE LAYER |
| What is the ozone layer? |
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| PRECIPITATION |
| What causes precipitation? |
| PRESSURE |
| What causes high pressure? |
| What causes low pressure? |
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| RADAR |
| How does weather radar work? |
| RAIN (see PRECIPITATION) |
| RAINBOWS |
| What causes rainbows? |
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| SANDSTORM |
| What causes sandstorms? |
| SEASONS What causes the seasons? |
| SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS (see HAIL or TORNADEOS or DOWNBURST) |
| SNOW |
| What causes snow? |
| SNOW ROLLERS |
| What are snow rollers? |
| SOLAR POWER |
| Why dont we use more solar power? |
| SQUALL LINE |
| What is a squall line? |
| STRATOSPHERE |
| What is the stratosphere? |
| SUNSETS |
| Why are sunsets red? |
| --- T --- |
| TEMPERATURE |
| How do you convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature? |
| TEMPERATURE INVERSION |
| What is a temperature inversion? |
| THUNDERSTORMS |
| What causes thunderstorms? |
| TORNADOES |
| What causes tornadoes? |
| TRADE WINDS |
| What causes the trade winds? |
| TROPICAL STORM |
| What is a tropical storm? a tropical depression? |
| TROPOSPHERE |
| What is the troposphere? |
| TURBULENCE |
| What causes turbulence? |
| TYPHOONS (see HURRICANES) |
| --- U --- |
| URBAN HEAT ISLAND |
| What is the urban heat island? |
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| WATER VAPOR |
| What is water vapor? |
| WAVE CLOUDS |
| What causes wave clouds? |
| WEATHER SATELLITES |
| How do weather satellites work? |
| WIND |
| What causes wind? |
| WIND SHEAR |
What is wind shear?
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GLOBAL WARMING: Manmade or Natural?
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How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science,
Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor
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