Weather Events Tornadoes/Cyclones 1 National Weather Service Glossary: http://www.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=Tornado 2 Weather Dictionary: Keyword Search http://www.weatherdictionary.com 3 USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wtorwhat/wtorwhat.htm 4 Yahooligans!Science http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/science/brainpop/movie?id=tornadoes 5 Yahooligans! Ask Earl http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/ask_earl/category?c=166 6 Weather Encyclopedia http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/tornado/climo.html 7 FEMA: Tornadoes for Kids http://www.fema.gov/kids/tornado.htm Hurricanes/Typhoons 1 National Weather Service Glossary: http://www.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=Hurricane 2 Weather Dictionary: Keyword Search http://www.weatherdictionary.com/ 3 USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/whurwhat/whurwhat.htm 4 Yahooligans!Science http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/science/brainpop/movie?id=hurricanes 5 Yahooligans! Ask Earl http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/ask_earl/category?c=162 6 Weather Encyclopedia http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/tropical/effect.html 7 FEMA: Hurricanes for Kids http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm 8 Thinkquest http://library.thinkquest.org/J003007/Disasters2/hurricane/hwhat.html             Blizzards/Northeasters 1 National Weather Service Glossary: http://www.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=blizzard 2 Weather Dictionary: Keyword Search http://www.weatherdictionary.com/ 3 USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wnoreast/wnoreast.htm 4 NSIDC- National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/snow/blizzard/questions.html 5 What is a Blizzard? http://www.ussartf.org/blizzards.htm 6 Weather Encyclopedia http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/winter/blizzard.html 7 FEMA: Winter Storms for Kids http://www.fema.gov/kids/wntstrm.htm       Hail Storms 1 National Weather Service Glossary http://www.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=Hail 2 Weather Dictionary: Keyword Search http://www.weatherdictionary.com/ 3 Hail Storms http://www.chaseday.com/hail.htm 4 Hail Storms http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lub/safety/tips_facts/hail.htm 5 Giant Hail Stones http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/hailjim.htm 6 Weather Encyclopedia http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/thunder/hail.html Drought 1 National Weather Service Glossary http://www.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=drought 2 Weather Dictionary: Keyword Search http://www.weatherdictionary.com/ 3 U.S. Drought Monitor http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html 4 What is a Drought? http://www.naturalhazards.org/investigate/drought/ 5 Living with Drought http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/livedrought.shtml 6 Weather Encyclopedia http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/heat/drought.html 7 Drought for Kids http://www.drought.unl.edu/kids/ Floods 1 National Weather Service Glossary http://www.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=Flood 2 Weather Dictionary: Keyword Search http://www.weatherdictionary.com/ 3 FEMA: Floods for Kids http://www.fema.gov/kids/floods.htm 4 Floods http://www.noaa.gov/floods.html 5 Coping With Floods http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/disaster/floods/ 6 How Floods Work http://www.howstuffworks.com/flood.htm 7 Major Floods in the US http://ks.water.usgs.gov/Kansas/pubs/fact-sheets/fs.024-00.html Thunderstorms/Lightning 1 National Weather Service Glossary http://www.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=Thunderstorm 2 Weather Dictionary: Keyword Search http://www.weatherdictionary.com/ 3 Resources: Thunderstorms http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/basics/thunderstorms.htm 4 FEMA: Thunderstorms for Kids http://www.fema.gov/kids/thunder.htm 5 Questions and Answers about Thunderstorms http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/storm/ 6 Thunderstorms http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7t.html 7 What Goes On In A Thunderstorm http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wtsmwhat/wtsmwhat.htm Weather Satellites   NASA Satellite Tracking http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/JTrack/NOAA.html   SkyWatch: Satellite Images http://www.earthwatch.com/SKYWATCH/skywatch.html   Satellite Image Viewer http://www.thirteen.org/savageseas/multimedia/satellite.html   Satellite Images: Natural Hazards http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/   Real Time Satellite Images http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/index.html#rtsat   Natural Disasters Weather events as well as earthquakes, avalanches, tsunamis, landslides, etc. http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01352/index2.html   Other Weather Sites The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/ Yahoo Kids-Weather http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Science-and-Nature/The-Earth/Weather USA Today http://asp.usatoday.com/weather/weatherfront.aspx Weather Gone Wild http://library.thinkquest.org/5818/ Weather Wiz Kids-Temperature http://www.weatherwizkids.com/temperature.htm WW2010 University of Illinois http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/home.rxml