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Lightning over a farm field. Weather electricity thunderstorm light energy tree
Facts You Should Know: Weather Quiz
Umbrella colored like a rainbow sticking out above a sea of black umbrellas while it rains. (storm, weather)
Weather Words Vocabulary Quiz
rain. Child in the rain, wearing a rain coat, under a yellow umbrella. April Showers weather climate rain storm water drops
April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs
Iceland, Glacier lagoon (Jokulsarlon)
Winter Weather Words Quiz
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Flower. Fruit tree. Cherry. Cherry tree. Cherry blossom. Spring. Close-up of cherry blossoms in bloom.
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Earth from space. Full-hemisphere views of the Earth showing Hurricane Linda at its peak approaching Baja California on 1997 September 11.
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High-oblique view of the extra-tropical unnamed cyclone that merged with Hurricane Earl is featured in this image taken by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station (Sept. 2010).
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Lightning over the outskirts of Oradea, Rom., during the thunderstorm of August 17, 2005.
16 Questions About Earth’s Atmsophere and Weather Answered
Solar system illustration. (planets; sun)
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Government officials are erasing graffiti of Islamic State (ISIS) banner in Solo, Java, Indonesia.
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The Battle of New Orleans, by E. Percy Moran, c. 1910. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812.
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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
Space race (1957-1969) infographic between United States (U.S.) and Russia. America, Soviet Union, U.S.S.R., space exploration
Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69
The Jeff Koons tulips sculputure outside the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao, Spain, Basque Country.
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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
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Shadow of a man holding large knife in his hand inside of some dark, spooky buiding
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Add new Web site: IOPscience - Investigating the occurrence of blizzard events over the contiguous United States using observations and climate projections. Sep 06, 2024
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Blizzard. Aug 01, 2021
Add new Web site: UCAR Center for Science Education - Blizzard. Aug 01, 2021
Add new Web site: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - Kids Crossing - How Do Blizzards Form? Sep 13, 2016
Add new Web site: NOAA - National Weather Service Forecast Office - Blizzard. Sep 13, 2016
Add new Web site: NOAA - National Weather Service Forecast Office - Blizzard. Sep 13, 2016
Add new Web site: LiveScience - What is a Blizzard? Sep 13, 2016
Text added clarifying the duration for high, sustained winds; visibility parameters changed. Mar 09, 2012
Media added. Aug 28, 2008
Article revised and updated. Jun 27, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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