Severe and Hazardous Weather
http://severewx.atmos.uiuc.edu/index.html

Donna Charlevoix, Bill Chapman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


On this website you will find links to current, forecast, and archived weather for use at home and in the classroom. In addition, there are more than fifty online examples demonstrating severe weather phenomena and the mechanisms for their formation. Links to photo galleries, animations, and demonstration applets on all topics of severe weather can be found in the left menu of each page. The severe weather topics included are: droughts, blizzards, snowstorms, windstorms, tornadoes, hailstorms, downbursts, lightning, El Nino, La Nina, tropcial cyclones, hurricanes, floods, heat waves, cold waves, lake effect snowstorms, thunderstorms, freezing precipitation and ice storms.

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Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)
Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Atmospheric ScienceKeywords: severe weather, hazardous weather, tropical weather, convective storms, drought and extreme heat, floods, winter weather, atmosphere