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Hurricane & tornado
—Challoner, Jack, author.
2014

Book

Describes dangerous and destructive weather conditions around the world, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, hail, and drought with photographs, historical background, and legends.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781465420954
  • 9781465420534
  • 1465420959
  • 1465420533

Edition: American edition.

Description: 72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

  • Hurricane and tornado
  • Eyewitness hurricane & tornado
  • Eyewitness hurricane and tornado

Notes:

  • At head of title: Eyewitness.
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 68) and index.

Contents:

  • Weather folklore
  • Early forecasts
  • What is extreme weather?
  • Extreme causes
  • Severe winds
  • Thunderous storms
  • Twisting tornadoes
  • Tornado force
  • Measuring tornadoes
  • Lightning strikes
  • Hailstorms
  • Hurrican alert
  • Devastation
  • Hurricane strikes
  • Fog and smog
  • High seas
  • Snowstorms
  • Avalanche
  • Floods and landslides
  • Heat waves
  • Deadly droughts
  • Polar extremes
  • Weather watch
  • Disaster relief
  • Nature's survivors
  • Climate change
  • El Niño
  • Freaky conditions
  • Beyond Earth
  • Did you know?
  • Timeline
  • Find out more.

Control Number: 1004548

Publisher: New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2014.
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