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Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Describes strange, amazing, and, at times, gruesome weather incidents and phenomena, arranged in categories including tornadoes, lightning, hail, rain, snow, hurricanes, wind, dust devils, and waterspouts, and describes a bizarre weather happening from each of the fifty states.
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Provide students with quick, direct answers to basic science questions. Covers area forecast, brioclimatology, dust bowl, greenhouse gas, La Nina, and much more Annotation. Containing approximately 2,200 entries, this reference book offers basic info
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A field guide to the weather, including clouds, storm systems, and climate change. A resource for those intrigued by events in the sky--clouds, precipitation, storms, aurora, halos--and for those who follow daily weather events. Using a nontechnical approach, the authors describe the flow of energy and moisture through global and local landscapes and how they evolve into day-to-day weather. For those fascinated by the sky's colors and patterns, there...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"At what temperature do bees stay home? Why do southerly winds in winter often bring storms? How can you plant a garden that tells the time, or know how many tumbles a hailstone has made through a cloud? These are among the many questions that international-bestselling author Peter Wohlleben poses in his newly translated book. Full of the very latest discoveries, combined with ancient, now forgotten lore, The Weather Detective helps you read nature's...
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Explains the science behind climate change and the effect climate change is having and may have on weather, includes glossary, additional resources, and index."--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Offers entertaining and science-based observations on the wind, from the world's first forecasts, to Chaos Theory, wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes and wind-generated power. By the best-selling author of Cold and Heat,"--NoveList.
The gnashing teeth of an oncoming storm. Wind-launched missiles and wind-tossed airplanes. Sand dunes and the Dust Bowl, shipwrecks and wind-riding spiders, weather forecasting, wind power, windmills, and...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded-a hurricane like no other. The sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storm's immensity caught the attention of scientists on the International Space Station. Even from there, it seemed almost limitless: 1.8 million square feet of tightly...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Most Anticipated by The New York Times and The Washington Post• New York Times bestselling journalist's masterful, bracing (David Wallace-Wells) investigation exposes through stellar reporting, artful storytelling and fascinating scientific explanations (Naomi Klein) an explosive new understanding of heat and the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet. Entertaining and thoroughly researched, (Al Gore), it will completely...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year, mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern U.S. and Europe in the summer...
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