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The handy weather answer book / Walter A. Lyons.

Summary:

Provides the answers to approximately 1,000 frequently asked questions about the weather, discussing hurricanes, tornadoes, rainbows, flash floods, and other weather-related phenomena.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0787610348
  • ISBN: 9780787610340
  • ISBN: 9781578590544
  • ISBN: 157859054X
  • Physical Description: xix, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Detroit, MI : Visible Ink Press, [1997]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-386) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Weather fundamentals -- Instruments and observations -- The upper atmosphere and beyond -- Clouds -- Hurricanes and tropical storms -- Thunderstorms, floods, and hail -- Lightening and thunder -- Optical phenomena -- Tornadoes -- Cold and winter storms -- Heat and humidity -- Earthquakes and volcanoes -- Air pollution and the environment -- Weather and the human body -- Weather forecasting -- Climate change -- Careers in meteorology.
Subject:
Weather > Miscellanea.
Genre:
Trivia and miscellanea.

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  • 11 of 13 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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