Educational Weather Websites
A hand-picked list of the best places online to learn how weather actually works — from playful, game-filled sites built for younger children right through to curriculum-linked resources for GCSE and A-level students, plus the reference sites the meteorologists (and this website) rely on. All links open the official external site in a new tab.
Especially for Kids
Games, animations and friendly explanations aimed at primary and early-secondary age children — a great place to start for "why does it rain?" and "what makes thunder?" questions.
NASA Kids: Weather & Climate
science.nasa.gov/kids
NASA's kids' section on weather and climate — short videos, easy-to-read articles such as "Which pole is colder?" and "What are climate models?", and a look at the satellites that watch Earth's weather from space.
Visit site →Weather Wiz Kids
weatherwizkids.com
Built and written by a real broadcast meteorologist, Crystal Wicker. Covers every weather topic in plain, friendly language, with a "Kid's Zone" of jokes, quizzes and a guide to becoming a meteorologist.
Visit site →NASA Kids: Earth
science.nasa.gov/kids/earth
The successor to NASA Climate Kids. Games, videos and "big question" articles on the water cycle, clouds, the atmosphere and how our climate is changing, with real science explained simply.
Visit site →Met Office for Schools — First Explorations
weather.metoffice.gov.uk
Free, curriculum-linked resources from the UK's own national weather service, designed for primary-age children and covering forecasting, extreme weather and how technology helps predict it.
Visit site →Owlie Skywarn's Young Meteorologist Program
weather.gov/owlie
The US National Weather Service's safety-focused site for children, following mascot Owlie Skywarn through storms, floods and hurricanes to learn how to stay safe as well as how the weather works.
Visit site →For Older Students & Future Meteorologists
More in-depth material for secondary school, GCSE/A-level and anyone who wants to go further than "why" and start learning the actual physics behind fronts, pressure systems and forecasting.
MetLink — Royal Meteorological Society
metlink.org
The RMetS's own educational site, with weather and climate teaching resources spanning primary right through to sixth form, plus careers information for anyone considering meteorology as a profession.
Visit site →Met Office for Schools — Deeper Discovery
weather.metoffice.gov.uk
The secondary-level companion to the Met Office's primary resources above, going further into climate change, technology in forecasting and the people who work in weather and climate science.
Visit site →JetStream — NWS Online School for Weather
noaa.gov/jetstream
NOAA's own online weather school — thorough, well-illustrated reference material on everything from atmospheric layers to tropical cyclones. It's also the same source behind the diagrams on several of our own Weather Info pages, including Jet Streams, Dew Point and Weather Fronts.
Visit site →Met Office — Learn About
weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about
Plain-English explainers from the UK's official forecaster covering how fronts, pressure and the jet stream shape British weather, alongside the UK's own climate change data.
Visit site →Reference & Keep Exploring
The heavyweight reference sites that working meteorologists (and this website) actually use day to day.
AMS Glossary of Meteorology
glossary.ametsoc.org
The American Meteorological Society's peer-reviewed glossary — the authoritative definition of almost any weather term you'll come across, from "advection" to "zonal flow".
Visit site →Weather Underground
wunderground.com
A worldwide network of personal weather stations (including many amateur setups just like ours), plus an interactive map and a searchable historical weather archive going back decades.
Visit site →Met Office
metoffice.gov.uk
The UK's national weather service and the official source of forecasts, warnings and climate data for Southampton and the whole of the UK.
Visit site →These are independent, external websites run by NASA, NOAA, the Met Office, the Royal Meteorological Society and other organisations — not part of this site. Links open in a new tab; we don't host or control their content, so if anything moves or a link ever breaks, please let us know via our Credits page.