CLEVELAND — Welcome to the weather classroom! We're ready to help you learn -- even if schools are currently closed.
3News meteorologist Jason Frazer loves science and doing school visits. Recently, he kicked off an online series helping kids better understand meteorology. He’s going to be doing weather lessons about a variety of topics including wind, temperature, tornadoes and hurricanes. These lessons are geared to children who are 9 years old and older. He welcomes your questions, too. You can e-mail him directly at JFrazer@WKYC.com or you can contact him on Facebook or Instagram at @JasonFrazerTV.
NOTE: Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this story for links to more of Jason's weather lessons.
In today’s lesson, Jason discusses the various types of lightning. The most popular types of lightning include cloud to cloud, cloud to ground and ground to cloud. Watch below:
During this lesson, Jason also highlights how lightning is created and why all lightning isn’t the same.
A handout for today’s lesson can be found here:
Do you have a question or topic you’d like to see Jason discuss? Send him an email at JFrazer@WKYC.com or send him a message on Facebook.com/JasonFrazerTV.
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