On your computer or on your cell, AccuWeather.com, delivers the most accurate, up-to-date, worldwide forecasts and severe weather information to keep your family safe. AccuWeather.com provides 15-day and hour-by-hour forecasts, severe weather reports, real-time radar and satellite images, travel forecasts and unique health indices, plus entertaining videos and special interest areas to millions of daily users in 2.7 million locations worldwide. Check out our Kids Weather area featuring games, downloads and WeatherWhys.

The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS), Founded in 1998, provides a great platform for communities around the country to participate in "hands-on" science right in their own backyards through the daily observation of precipitation. Volunteers of all ages measure rain, hail and snow using simple low-cost rain gauges and hail pads. These observations are then collected and made available on the CoCoRaHS Web site: www.cocorahs.org. These data are used daily by many federal, state and community organizations and businesses. Through consistent observation and data sharing, participants actively learn about their climate, their water resources and the impacts precipitation has on their lives and their communities.

The CoCoRaHS Network currently engages over 14,500 volunteer observers in communities across all fifty states with over 600 volunteers in the state of Georgia. If you would like to report how much rain has fallen in your back yard, we would love to have you as a volunteer observer. To sign-up for CoCoRaHS visit: www.cocorahs.org and click on "Join CoCoRaHS". It's lots of fun and only takes five minutes a day.

CoCoRaHS would like to thank HDR Engineering (www.hdrinc.com) for generously sponsoring the CoCoRaHS Rain Gauge-Water Balloon Toss exhibit at this year's Weatherfest.

Visit COMET® and enter the world of meteorology! Learn about science by seeing it through the eyes of the weather! Engage your imagination with over 550 hours of COMET’s interactive distance learning materials which provides and delivers free education and training in the geosciences. Explore COMET's MetEd Website, the portal to a rich and fascinating computer-based multimedia library!

Forecast Central is an online weather forecasting contest designed to help students learn about weather. Students can have fun learning science concepts by observing and forecasting the weather around them.

The online activity allows students to do inquiry-based weather investigations on their own, with reinforcement by tracking the actual weather. Even students who said they did not like science seemed to learn more using Forecast Central than with traditional methods. This teaching technique encourages students to be more aware of the weather and to look at the environment around them with a scientifically critical eye.

Forecast Central includes a forum for teachers to pose scientific questions to the class and a blog for students to communicate with each other about the weather. Forecast Central can also be effective for teaching geography and climate by having students forecast for other parts of the country.

Drop by to make a real weather forecast online!

The Georgia Tech Research Institute honors the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the laser with an extensive collection of hands-on science exhibits.

Learn about the science and technology of lasers which have incredibly diverse applications that include meteorology. The mini-museum will be of interest to all ages.

"The Space Place" and "SciJinks" are NASA and NOAA outreach efforts. They offer ad-free, award-winning web sites and other programs targeting elementary and middle-school students with entertaining, interdisciplinary space and Earth science and technology content.

NOAA Satellite and Information Service(http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov)

The NOAA Satellite and Information Service (or NESDIS) is NOAA’s environmental satellites program manager dedicated to providing timely access to global data from satellites and other sources to promote, protect, and enhance the Nation's economy, security, environment, and quality of life. Environmental satellites are the key source of data for forecasting weather, analyzing climate, and monitoring hazards. The satellites' 24-hour global coverage provides scientists and meteorologists with a continuing stream of information critical for decisions affecting our world, such as preparing for events that will influence our climate, vegetation, and oceans. NESDIS also operates the NOAA national data centers that provide data archive and information services including monitoring Earth systems, assessing the environment, and conducting related research.

The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of NOAA’s Television Infrared Observation Satellite I (TIROS I), the Earth’s first weather satellite. TIROS, which later became known as the Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), made it possible to conduct experimental television techniques that led to the development of a worldwide meteorological satellite information system. TIROS I launched on April 1, 1960, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The latest POES (NOAA-19) launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on February 6, 2009.

Help us celebrate the TIROS/POES series era by learning about NESDIS satellites' role in climate and weather changing the way we see and understand the Earth forever!

Cloud’s in a Bottle Come experience how clouds form by performing a hands on activity. This presentation will ask you to experiment with the essential elements of cloud formation. The final experiment you will put the elements together to create a cloud in a bottle. Fun! Fun! Fun! Come enjoy.

Raytheon's MathMovesU program is an innovative initiative designed to engage middle school students in math by illustrating the connection between math, their passions and interests and "cool" careers. Raytheon believes that tomorrow's engineers and technologists need to be excited by and interested in math today.

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The company’s approximately 45,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of $10.1 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009. For more information, visit www.saic.com. SAIC: From Science to Solutions®

Sea and Sky Quilt Squares One skill that all scientists share is the ability to make accurate observations. Come and create your one-of-a-kind sea or sky square by drawing your favorite atmospheric phenomena or marine creature! Good observation skills are all that's required.

This exhibit will feature Professor Polar Bear, Teacher Turtle, and PI Prairie Dog. Affected by climate change in different ways, these three friends represent the Education and Outreach program for U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. ARM Education and Outreach strives to promote basic science awareness and understanding of climate change studies by providing lesson plans and an activity book to teachers and students. Additional materials are available at http://education.arm.gov.

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Office of Education and Outreach
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a consortium of universities and colleges with programs in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the UCAR Community Programs (UCP), which provide research, education, facilities, and other services to advance understanding of the relationship between Earth and humankind.
The UCAR Office of Education and Outreach (EO) works to promote scientific literacy and advance all levels of education and training in subjects related to Earth’s atmosphere. EO offers numerous programs, workshops, and resources for educators, students and the general public to accomplish these goals.

Learn more about weather and climate by viewing satellite imagery on a 3D globe and interacting with computer animations that allow you to explore physical processes such as tornadoes, air density effects on baseballs, thunderstorms, rainbows, snowflake crystals (and more!).