This page offers a compendium of video clips, animations, photographs, examples of scientific illustration, or other images that could complement your classroom explorations.

National Lightning
        Check out this map to see the most recent occurrences of lightning in the country and your region. Data is posted within a half hour of the most recent strikes.

Savage Seas: The Weather Factory
        This site from PBS Online offers articles, video clips, and interactive animation exploring the role of the seas in creating our weather. You'll need Flash, Quicktime, and Real Player to view the animation and videos, but they're fascinating and really worth the download if you don't have them already.

The Weather Channel's Photo Gallery
        Browse through The Weather Channel's impressive archives of weather and storm photos. It might be fun to look at these images with your students to see if you can identify the different types of clouds.

Snow Crystals
        This site offers an amazing gallery of snowflake images, as well as information on how to take your own photos of snowflakes, how to preserve snowflakes, and info on snowflake physics.

Cool Images from the Storm Prediction Center
        This page offers a collection of interesting weather images captured by the Storm Prediction Center staff. Check back regularly to see if new images have been posted.

Weather Map Symbols
        You may never see some of these weather symbols on the TV weather maps, but meteorologists use them all, and it's fun to see what they look like.

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