Description
Depicts some of history's most severe or unusual weather systems, including electrified dust storms, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, ball lightning, and falls of fish and toads.
Read More
Made visually lively with an abundance of color photos and maps, this book presents informative text on various weather conditions--heat, drought, cold, floods, thunderstorms, windstorms, tornadoes, fog--but its heart is its many-faceted collection of extreme weather data for some 300 US cities, presented in tables. Burt, an afficionado of extreme weather statistics since boyhood, studied meterology in college and then became an author and publisher (he founded the Compass American Guides series). This compendium will be attractive to anyone bitten by a similar bug, as well as those with milder enthusiasm. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Read Less