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Polar bear on all fours walking in the dark. Caption: It was the cold in fact that created polar bears.

Field with green foliage in the foreground and fields with round bales of hay in the background. Caption: The climate still impacts agriculture.

Glowing ball representing the sun with a globe representing the earth traveling in orbit around it. Examples of the different hemispheres experiencing opposite seasons in the background. Caption: A season is a division of the year

Person in shadow against a backdrop of open expanse of ocean and sky. Caption: The new adversity they're having to deal with is climate change.

Illustration of Earth. Midlatitude jet stream (cool) at the top of the globe and Subtropical jet stream (warm) close to the equator. Both move clockwise. Caption: it is a powerful band of winds known for bringing winter storms

Map of the world with color highlighting areas of different climates. Caption: Next, Koppen's system defined what are called "macroclimates."

Large puffy clouds across an open expanse of sky. Caption: (narrator) And from clouds, we get precipitation,

Edge of a manhole cover with "No Dumping Drains to Bay" printed on the ground. Caption: That goes into storm drains and ends up in the Santa Ana River.

Curving river with unnaturally even banks winds through green fields. Caption: which is like a highway for water.

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,

In foreground a flat, barren landscape with a large cloud of dust. In the background there are some out-of-focus hills. Caption: The sand forms gigantic dust carpets,

Trees, water, mountains, desert, and plain with river. Caption: Biomes are like little kingdoms.

Two people sit on a couch. One is putting on a gas mask. Caption: Gas masks are made to fit small, medium, and large faces.

A glacier between two mountains covered in snow. Caption: (narrator) The last great Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago.

A mountain covered in snow. Caption: (male narrator) They exist on every continent on earth except Australia.

A cartoon shows an example of a T V weather report, extra sunny or cloudy rainy.

An illustration depicts different layers of an ice core. The layers may contain volcanic remains, dust, and pollen, from a corresponding period.

Dry, brown grasses dotted with wildflowers wave in the wind. Caption: Hot, arid summers tend to parch vegetation.

Evergreen plants in shades of green from light to dark cover the landscape. Caption: Shrubby, evergreen plants are widespread in all five areas.

Somewhat rocky soil with cactus and scrub-like plants give way to cultivated rows of plants and buildings in the distance. Caption: These areas as known as Mediterranean climate reasons.

Puffy white clouds. Cumulus clouds. Caption: Cumulus, Latin for "heap,"

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.

Snow covered trees with bare branches. Caption: Rising air pressure often means the weather is clearing,

Earth spinning on its orbit, the equator of earth is tilted downward and eastward.

A photo depicts the earth spinning in its orbit, where the equator and tropic of cancer are highlighted. Caption: June

Earth spinning on its orbit, the tilt of earth's central axis along the vertical axis is highlighted.

A large circular storm on Earth's surface, as seen from space. Caption: the forecasters categorize them by wind speed.

A person washing a window with a sponge. Caption: What's the weather outside your window today?

Iceland as seen from above. Mostly green with a few central patches of ice and snow. Caption: Iceland is an oceanic island

Illustration of the Earth and the layers of the atmosphere. In order from closest to farthest: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere. Caption: and the top layer is called the exosphere.

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

A water body. Caption: More people and more buildings mean more strain on the system.

Satellite image of a hurricane. Caption: how storms impact cities and towns along our coasts.

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.

Green treetops looking over a lake with puffy clouds in a blue sky. Caption: First, moisture is needed to form clouds and precipitation.

Snowy field and mountain range. Caption: Polar climates are very, very cold, windy, and snowy.

Green patchwork fields with a mountain rising in the background. Clouds cover most of the blue sky. Caption: Clouds can form at any height above the ground.

Aerial view of snow-and-ice-covered rock surrounded by icy water. Caption: Glaciers and icecaps are frozen year round,

A patch of dried, cracked, mud. Caption: There are three types of drought…

Muddy water rushing through a rocky channel. Caption: Floods are the most common and expensive natural disasters.

Rough ocean water covering beach and surrounding areas. Caption: Hurricanes are huge storms that are given names

Closeup of a fern leaf with water dripping from it. Caption: Precipitation is a major part of the water cycle

Tornado swirling in the middle of a field. Caption: The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous damage,

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,

Cartoon of a garbage truck pulling up to a dumpster. Caption: The garbage truck?

Cartoon drawing of a flying superhero with a "W" on his chest. Caption: (Tim) "The adventures of Weatherman."

Sunlight filtering through the leaves of a tree. Caption: can absorb or scatter radiant energy from the sun.

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,

A photograph of cirrus clouds. On screen text, cirrus. Caption: Cirrus clouds are thin, white clouds.

Two cars are partially submerged in flood water.

Partially collapsed building covering a vehicle in debris. A person wearing a hard hat films the destruction. Caption: But tornadoes can cause massive destruction.

Vehicles driving on a road with a funnel-shaped cloud descending from the sky. Caption: Tornadoes are smaller, very powerful storms

Satellite looking down the surface of the Earth over a large storm system. Caption: a new storm gathers strength, churning towards land.