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2) Weather
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Why does it rain? How hot is a bolt of lightning? What makes hurricanes form, and how does climate change affect the weather? What happens when a cold front rolls in? Become a meteorology expert and set up your own home weather station, and learn to read nature's own signs of changing weather. Eyewitness Weather shows you what weather looks like, from a tropical storm cloud seen from above to close-ups of snowflake crystals. Learn about what weather...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In The Weather Machine, Andrew Blum takes readers on a journey to understand how the weather forecast works. He visits old weather stations and watches new satellites blast off. He follows the dogged efforts of scientists to create a supercomputer model of the atmosphere and traces the history of the algorithms that power their work. Our tools allow us to predict weather more accurately than ever, yet we haven't learned to trust them. Nor can we...
Author
Series
Magic tree house fact trackers volume 8
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the changing nature of weather and how meteorologists predict and study such storms as tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1962]
Description
Presents an unabridged republication of the 1931 text that features over two thousand photomicrographs of snow flakes, frost, glaze, dew, sleet, and soft hail; and includes text that discusses the technique of photographing snow crystals, and other related topics.
9) Weather
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses such elements of weather as clouds, wet air, frost, ice, wind, and air pressure. Includes some projects.
10) Weather
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explores the causes, changing patterns, and forecasting of weather.
Author
Formats
Description
"Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, politics, economy, and values. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open. The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. Goodell's...
12) Precipitation
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces precipitation to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau, failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged by a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in...
16) Weather
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book describes the Earth's weather, detailing the water cycle, thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and the warming of the atmosphere.
19) Field guide to the weather: learn to identify clouds and storms, forecast the weather, and stay safe
Author
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
A handy reference to meteorology and to the types of weather phenomena that one might encounter at home or in nature. It includes an introduction to the basics of meteorology-explaining the aspects of the atmosphere that dictate how weather works. From there, the field guide moves in to look at a variety of individual weather topics: cloud formation (and cloud-type identification), various forms of precipitation, and much more. The author goes on...