Weather Tidbits: Lightning Safety
Today’s weather tidbits topic is about lightning safety. Never seek shelter under a tree because lightning is attracted to tall objects. Go inside your house or a nearby building for the best…
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Weather Tidbits: Winter Weather Alerts
Today’s weather tidbits topic is about winter weather alerts. There is a winter storm watch, a winter storm warning, and a winter weather advisory, but there is also a blizzard warning that we will…
Weather Tidbits: Flood Alerts
Today on weather tidbits we’re talking about flood alerts and the different kind of flood alerts. There’s a flash flood warning, a flood warning, a flood advisory, a coastal flood warning, and a coastal…
Weather Tidbits: Tropical Alerts
This Weather Tidbits concludes the discussion of hurricanes with tropical alerts. Hurricane, Tropical Storm & Storm Surge Watches mean that these conditions are possible within 48 hours. Hurricane, Tropical Storm &…
Weather Tidbits: Saffir-Simpson Scale
This Weather Tidbits focuses on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The scale is based on wind speed and broken down into 5 categories. A major hurricane is classified once the storm becomes a…
Weather Tidbits: Storm Surge
The power of water during a tropical system is explored in this Weather Tidbits. Storm surge is the abnormal rise of water generated by the winds of a storm. Storm surge is…
Weather Tidbits: El Niño & Hurricanes
The warmer than normal water in the eastern & central Pacific waters is known as El Niño. This event plays a big role on how a hurricane season plays out…
Weather Tidbits: Hurricane Anatomy & Decay
We keep it all hurricane in this Weather Tidbits. A hurricane consists of spiral rain bands, an eyewall and an eye. Most tropical cyclones last a few days, but some…
Weather Tidbits: Hurricane Formation
We turn things tropical in this Weather Tidbits with the formation of hurricanes. Hurricanes need 4 ingredients for the chance to thrive which are warm ocean temperatures above 80°, plenty of…
Weather Tidbits: Weather Phobias
Psychology is applied to Weather Tidbits as weather phobias are discussed. These weather fears are real and are caused usually by negative experiences such as accidents, death or extension of other…
Weather Tidbits: Twilight
This Weather Tidbits focuses on the period between day and night known as twilight. Twilight is when the scattering of the sun's rays extend and reflect through the earth's atmosphere while being…
Weather Tidbits: Volcanoes
This Weather Tidbits explores the relationship of how volcanoes affect the weather. The biggest impacts globally is that it creates a cooling temperatures, along with some interesting looking sunrises and sunsets. It's short…
Weather Tidbits: Earthquake
We go geological on this Weather Tidbits, as earthquakes are checked out. An earthquake happens when two blocks of the earth's crust slip past one another creating an intense shaking of the surface.…
Weather Tidbits: Rainbows
One of the most beautiful weather phenomenons, the rainbow, is the main headline of this Weather Tidbits. This occurs when rain is falling in one part of the sky and the sun is…
Weather Tidbits: Dew and Frost
The 2 weather things produced by condensation are the main focus of this Weather Tidbits. Frost and dew occur on calm and clear nights and are fully formed by early morning.…
Weather Tidbits: Heat Transfer
The heat will be transferred in this Weather Tidbits. The 3 processes of heat transfer are conduction, convection & radiation. Conduction is the transfer from one molecule to another, while convection is…
Weather Tidbits: Uncommon Clouds
Lenticular and mammatus clouds may be uncommon but they are neat and are the focus of this Weather Tidbits. Lenticular clouds are smooth, round, lens-like shape that look like UFO or pancakes,…
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