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Why Do Tornadoes Spin?
Wind usually just blows past you. So how does it end up whirling in a giant circle?
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What Causes Lightning?
A lightning bolt crosses the sky in a blink. Where does all that electricity come from?
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What Causes a Blizzard?
Two feet of snow fell overnight. Was that a blizzard? Not always!
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How Does Weather Radar See a Storm?
It is the middle of the night and pouring rain. Somehow a machine still knows exactly where the storm is. How?
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What Do Hurricane Hunters Actually Do?
Would you fly an airplane straight into a hurricane? On purpose?
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The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
On December 26, 2004, the ocean began to move on a scale almost impossible to imagine.
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Five of the Strangest Weather Events
Ready for weather that sounds made up, but really happens?
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What Is a Fire Tornado?
Can a wildfire really make something that looks like a tornado built out of flames?
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How Do Scientists Rate Tornadoes?
EF1, EF3, EF5. You hear the numbers on the news. Who decides, and how?
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Thunder
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Loud, funny and wild about big dramatic weather. If it rumbles, spins or flashes, Thunder is on it.
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Junior forecaster
The bouncy kid bot who asks the questions everybody is thinking and tries every experiment.
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