Online Glossaries and Explanations

• NOAA Weather Glossary
  
• MIT Radar Glossary
  
• NOAA Guide to Severe Weather Safety
  
• National Weather Service Heat Index Chart
  
• Understanding Wind Chill
  
• National Weather Service Wind Chill Chart
  
• UIUC online Cloud Catalog
  
• UIUC online Guide to Meteorology
  
• UIUC online Guide to El-Nino
  
• The Changing Earth and Atmosphere
  
• Thunderstorm Dangers
  
• Lightning
  
• Jet Contrails
  
• Why are cities so hot?
  
• What does radiation have to do with our climate?
  
• Why is the sky Blue?
  
• Another Blue Sky Unit.
  
• Land and Sea Breezes
  
• The Weather Converter Meteorological Conversion Calculator.
  
• Tornado Experiments
  
• F-Scale Fujita Tornado Intensity Scale
  
• The Weather Effect
  
• The Atmosphere
  
• The Sky
  
• What makes wind?
  
• Weather Folk Lore
  
• Surviving weather related phenomenum
  
• The Sun
  
• Understanding Weather and Weather Forecasting in Kentucky
  
• Predicting local minimum temperature
  
• How the Weather Works
  
• Weather Forecasting
  
• USA Today Weather Index
  

Weather Teaching Units

• Hurricanes Grades K-8
  
• Observing Clouds Grades K- 5
  
• Observing the Weather Grades K- 4
  
• Weather Charting Grades 5 and up
  
• Activity guides and worksheets Grades 5 and up
  
• Task Cards Grades 3-5
  
• Storms from Space Grades 4 and up
  
• Keeping Track of Precipitation Grades 4 and up
  
• Weather Around the World Grades 4 and up
  
• Adopt a City multimedia project for grades 5 and up
  
• The Weather Unit
  
• A brief history of Meteorology.
  
• Atmospheric composition
  
• The hydrologic cycle
  
• Thermometers
  
• Time conventions
  
• Latitude and Longitude