The John C. Freeman Weather Museum is a weather museum

Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 in the museum district of Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

. It opened in 1987 along with the Weather Research Center. The Weather Museum is known for its weather camps, especially during Summer,

Recent history

In 2006, the museum moved to a new location at 5104 Caroline after being previously located on Audley Street. In 2007, Radar The Weather Dog became apart of the Weather Museum staff after local television station KPRC-TV

KPRC-TV

KPRC-TV is the NBC affiliated television station based in Houston, Texas, and serving the Greater Houston television market. It has studios located in the Sharpstown district on the Southwest portion of the city, and has a transmitter site in unincorporated Fort Bend County near Missouri City...

 relieved him of his duties.

Permanent Exhibits

• Weather Studio- A room where visitors and students in the weather camps may record a video of themselves as a local correspondent of The Weather Channel
  The Weather Channel
  The Weather Channel is a US cable and satellite television network since May 2, 1982, that broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news, along with entertainment programming related to weather 24 hours a day...
  
  . It features a green screen for demonstrating principles of weather broadcasting.
• Climates of the World- Visitors can learn about the different climates around the world through use of terrariums that house numerous animals from around the world. Visitors can also learn about El Nino and La Nina
  La Niña
  La Niña is a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that is the counterpart of El Niño as part of the broader El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern. During a period of La Niña, the sea surface temperature across the equatorial Eastern Central Pacific Ocean will be lower than normal by 3–5 °C...
  
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• Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons- Visitors can view satellite and radar images of Hurricanes that have affected the Gulf Coast, including Hurricanes Katrina
  Hurricane Katrina
  Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
  
  , Rita
  Hurricane Rita
  Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rita caused $11.3 billion in damage on the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 2005...
  
  , and Ike
  Hurricane Ike
  Hurricane Ike was the second-costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States, the costliest hurricane ever to impact Cuba and the second most active hurricane to reach the Canadian mainland in the Great Lakes Region after Hurricane Hazel in 1954...
  
  . Visitors can also learn what effects a storm surge would have on the Houston area, were a Category 5 Hurricane to make landfall in the area.
• Weather Wizard Corner- Visitors can participate in, or watch, weather experiments performed by Weather Museum staff.
• Tornadoes- Visitors can learn about Tornadoes, about the Enhanced Fujita Scale
  Enhanced Fujita Scale
  The Enhanced Fujita Scale rates the strength of tornadoes in the United States based on the damage they cause.Implemented in place of the Fujita scale introduced in 1971 by Ted Fujita, it began operational use on February 1, 2007. The scale has the same basic design as the original Fujita scale:...
  
  , and how to stay safe when a tornado does strike. Visitors to this section can also play a weather trivia game.
• Tornado Chamber- A tornado simulator built by the National Weather Service
  National Weather Service
  The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...
  
   in Corpus Christi. Visitors will see how a tornado forms through the condensation of water vapor during quasi-adiabatic expansion, and touch the simulation while learning how a funnel forms.
• Video Room- A room where visitors can view video of classic and current tornado and hurricane footage. Visitors can also learn about the basics of weather.
• Weather History- A room with artifacts from the past hundreds of years of weather forecasting, and how weather forecasting technology has evolved.
• Weather Sphere- A 3-D globe where visitors can view satellite images of current weather conditions and past Hurricanes, plate tectonics, satellite tracking, and the planets of the Solar System
  Solar System
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