Wild Weather Educational Posters
for classrooms and homeschoolers.

Wild Weather Educational posters feature avalanche, blizzard, drought, flood, "hail, sleet & ice", hurricane, thunderstorm and tornado. winter posters

Avalanche Poster

Avalanche

Avalanches, a high speed flow of snow, happen when a snowpack is too large for the slope to support it. Avalanches among the biggest dangers in the mountains for both life and property.

Blizzard Poster

Blizzard

A severe winter storm with low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow is a blizzard. The word 'blizzard' to describe a severe snow storm seems to have come into use in the late 1800s in the American midwest; the word may be related to the German 'blitz'.

Drought Poster

Drought

A drought is when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply, usually caused by consistently below average precipitation for an extended period of months or years. While deserts are defined as places where rainfall is less than 10" a year, desertification, the process of degradation of land, happens when the demands of increased population stress water supplies.

• Oman desert print

Flood Poster

Flood

A flood is water that is outside of the normal perimeters of a river, lake, or ocean. Flooding can be caused by heavy rain, either seasonal or from tropical storms, and/or rapidly melting snow; coastal flooding can occur when high tides combine with storms that surge the ocean water inland.

Hail, Sleet, Ice Poster

Hail, Sleet, and Ice are forms of precipitation:

Hail consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice called hail stones.

Sleet is the intermediate between rain and snow, distinct from hail stones.

Ice is frozen water and variably describes as rain that freezes on contact with objects when it falls.

Hurricane Poster

Hurricane Poster

Tropical storms in the North Atlantic Ocean, the North Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, and in the South Pacific Ocean east of 160°E, are called hurricanes after the Amerindian storm god Huracan (Spanish huracán).

• more hurricane posters

Thunderstorm Poster

Thunderstorm

A thunderstorm is characterized by lightning, the atmospheric discharge of electricity, and thunder, the sound of the sonic shock wave caused by the sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning and lightning bolts. A thunderstorm can also called an electrical storm or lightning storm.

Tornado Poster

Tornado

While most tornadoes occur in the midwest United States they also commonly occur in southern Canada, south-central and eastern Asia, east-central South America, Southern Africa, northwestern and central Europe, Italy, western and southeastern Australia, and New Zealand. They have never been observed on the continent of Antarctica.

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
• Twister, DVD