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Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Wind Energy

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Wind Energy--How to Build an Anemometer

Aerial view of a shoreline with a person body surfing and more people on the beach. Caption: rip currents account for 80% of beach rescues

Ominous gray clouds in the sky. Caption: This creates moisture in the air.

Four pictures of beaches, roads and bridges being washed away by stormy water. Caption: It can severely erode beaches and coastal highways.

Close up of a wave crashing on shore. Caption: Rip currents can form even in small waves,

Aerial view of apparently calm waves meeting the shore while a few people walk on the beach. Caption: make sure you know how to spot a rip current

Platform with large machinery and people on it floating in the water close to shore. Caption: NOAA's sentinels are water-level observing platforms

A large spiral shaped storm on Earth's surface as seen from space. Caption: Tropical cyclones extract heat from the ocean

Map of Earth with Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia in view. The water on the map shows large portions highlighted in orange. Caption: Tsunamis can strike any coastline in the world

Palm tree and house out of focus in foreground, wall of water from the ocean in focus in the background. Caption: to forecast when tsunamis may hit the coast

Aerial view of a coastline showing regular waves and an approaching tsunami. Map of Japan and Japanese writing overlaid. Caption: The result was devastation and utter destruction.

Aerial view of the ocean. Caption: This disturbance causes a transfer of energy

Needle on paper resulting in jagged peaks and troughs with a sinuous wave overlaid. Caption: It detects tremors, calculates the epicenter,

Grayish-green cloudy sky with a funnel cloud reaching to the ground. Caption: (male narrator) They are sometimes seen as threatening funnel clouds,

Aerial view of a large airplane in flight. Sensors dot the outside of the plane. Caption: (male narrator) Hurricane hunting is not for the faint at heart.

Lightning branching across the sky. Caption: (female narrator) Lightning is a rapid discharge of electrical energy

Person at a bank of computer screen showing maps shaded in various colors. Caption: the development of El Niño and La Niña.

A rainbow is forms above a valley. A white band colored band is a part of the rainbow.

Satellite flying above the ocean with a spiral shaped storm on the water. NOAA Environmental Satellites Predict & Track Storms. Caption: and predict and track tropical storms and hurricanes.

Bolt of lightning arcing from cloud to ground. Caption: we all want up-to-the-minute information.

Lava spewing from a crevasse while smoke and ash rises around it. Caption: how long the ash will linger and when the skies will be clear

Computer screens with color-shaded images of a spiral shaped storm. Caption: study hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards from the inside.

Storm so strong it limits visibility while palm trees bend in the wind. Caption: Dropsondes have a huge impact on understanding hurricanes

City with closely placed buildings almost entirely destroyed, very few still standing. Caption: new design standards and building codes.

Computer screen showing east coast of United States with color gradient showing a band of storms parallel to the coastline. Caption: almost 200 tornadoes had occurred

Person drawing a straight line down the side of a metal cylinder. Caption: Cores like this are nature's archives.

Platform in a warehouse holding a building suspended by struts. Caption: This shake table is the largest in the world,

Closeup cross-section of a large tree with many rings. Caption: This is a cross-section of a redwood tree.

Circular turbines stacked two-high. People walk in front of them. Caption: designed this 15-foot-tall wall of wind, nicknamed, "WOW."

Graphic of streets outlined in various colors with letters and numbers assigned to the individual streets. Caption: to construct a street-by-street view of Sandy's devastation.

Man releasing water into the air from a pump. Caption: equivalent to a major storm,

A large warehouse with a sloping roof. Caption: (narrator) At the Center for Aerosol Impacts

Model building being pounded by waves. Caption: And when engineers pounded it with a mini-tsunami,

Person watching a newscast on a laptop. Caption: most people rely on TV to make decisions as storms approach.

A giant funnel cloud moving toward a house. Caption: You really have to just step back and have great respect

A rapidly moving river with trees on the bank. Caption: (male narrator) Water, a precious resource for sure.

Color gradients showing the amount of water vapors over a map of the earth. Caption: showing the total amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

An illustration of hurricane recipe. On screen text, precursor storms + warm water + low wind shear. Iconic representations for all the three are depicted. Caption: Let's start with precursor storms.

Small cloud representing an average snowstorm compared to a larger angry cloud representing a thundersnow storm. Caption: separating ordinary snowstorms from thunder snowstorms,

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2110)

Image of a thunderstorm hovering over a state. Occluded front. Caption: We could end up with hail again.

Sky filled with gray fluffy clouds. Caption: Clouds can block some of the sun's rays

Image of cloud with rain and snow over a state. Caption: if the temperature is right, snowstorm.

Drawing of girl standing by the ocean. Caption: can expect a 1- to 4-foot rise in their lifetime,