Thunderstorm

  •  Use the following websites to help you answer the "General Information" questions on your handout.

1. What is a thunderstorm?

2. Where and when can thunderstorms form?

Use the following websites to help you answer the "Formation" questions on your handout.

3a. How do thunderstorms form?

3b. How do lightning form? 

Use the following websites to help you to answer the "Damage" questions on your handout.

4. What kind of damage can thunderstorms create?

5. Name a previous thunderstorm that had a devastating impact?  When and where did it occur?

Use the following websites to help you answer the "Safety" questions on your handout.

6. How do meteorologists (weather scientists) predict its formation? 

7. How can people keep safe from a thunderstorm?