Interesting Weather Facts for Kids

Weather patterns can shift significantly each day or minute – from sunshine and rainstorms to snowfall and even blizzards! Windy weather events, known as storms, include tornadoes, dust devils, gales, squalls and hailstorms. Tropical cyclones (commonly referred to as hurricanes or typhoons) also produce powerful winds with rough seas and heavy rainfall – two additional…

Weather Radar in Chicago

Weather radar can be an invaluable tool for monitoring the climate, but its accuracy can be subject to errors and uncertainties due to factors like ground clutter, beam blockage, attenuation and second-trip echoes. C-Band radars in particular may experience problems, leading to inaccurate velocities or overestimation of rainfall forecasts and results in inaccurate velocities or…

Who Weather Radar Map

Weather radars are widely used worldwide to predict rain, snow, and other forms of precipitation as well as more dangerous events like tornadoes and floods. Modern weather radars are predominantly doppler radars that can detect both the movement of raindroplets and intensity of precipitation, providing data that can help scientists better understand storm structures and…

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Satellite Weather – find more about this

Weather satellites are primarily used for monitoring the Earth’s weather and climate. They see more than clouds and cloud systems; they can also provide information about fires, city lights, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc. They have to be far away, at…