[Dummies 01] • Weather For Dummies by Cox, John D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Contents Introduction

About This Book Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here

Part I : What in the World Is Weather? Chapter 1: Forecasts and Forecasting

Forecasting Prophets Making a Forecast “We Interrupt This Program . . .” Water, Water, Everywhere . . . Flavors of Forecasts Keywords to the Wise Tools of the Trade How to Read a Weather Map

Chapter 2: Behind the Air Wars

I Don’t Like Your Latitude! Where the Armies Mass News from the Fronts Here Comes the Sun The Big Picture Putting on Airs

Chapter 3: Land, Sea, and Precipitation: Is This Any Way to Run a Planet?

Water’s Stirring Role Rain to Rime: Forms of Precipitation Dew to Fog: Forms of Condensation Weather and the Land Weather and the Ocean

Part II : Braving the Elements Chapter 4: Blowing in the Winds

Taking the Pressure A World of Wind and Pressure Bending the Winds The Winds Aloft The Westerlies The Jet Streams The Tradewinds A Scattering of Winds

Chapter 5: Getting Cirrus

Making Clouds: The Heavy Lifting A Question of Stability Clouds by Class

Chapter 6: Climate Is What You Expect; Weather Is What You Get

Climate or Weather? Climates of the World What Makes Climates Different? Climate and the Seasons Pacific Body Parts El Niño, His Cool Sister, and Their Kissing Cousins Climates of the Past

Chapter 7: The Greatest Storms on Earth

Breeding Grounds Mysteries Birth of a Hurricane Signals of the Seasons Cruise’n for a Bruise’n Coming Ashore . . . But Where? In Harm’s Way Hurricane Force

Part III : Some Seasonable Explanations Chapter 8: The Ways of Winter

Winter’s “Official” First Day It’s a Temperature Thing Coast to Coast Storms of Winter Where They Come From Where They Go Name That Storm When the Flakes Fly Blizzards Life and Limb

Chapter 9: Twists and Turns of Spring

When Has Spring Sprung? Coast to Coast Thunderstorms Supercell Hail the Size of Hailstones Flash Floods ZAP! Crack! Bam! Downbursts Really Twisted Winds Tornado Alley Forecasting Lives and Limbs

Chapter 10: Extremely Summer

Good Ol’ Summer Timing Coast to Coast Avoiding That Radiant Feeling The Heat Is On Storms of Summer Out of Whack When It Rains Too Much . . . When It Rains Too Little . . .

Chapter 11: Falling for Autumn

The Timing Thing Falling Highs and Lows Coast to Coast In a Pigment’s Eye Indian Summer In the Fogs Fires of the Wild West

Part IV : The Special Effects Chapter 12: Taking Care of the Air

Polluting the Air The Hole in the Sky The Big Warm

Chapter 13: Up in the Sky! Look!

Seeing the Light In Living Color Why the Sky Is Blue Reflecting on Clouds Silver Linings Blue Haze Sunbeams Sunrise, Sunset The Green Flash Rainbows Haloes Sun Dogs Sun Pillars Coronas Glories Mirages Twinkle, Twinkle Little Air Auroras

Chapter 14: Try This at Home

You’re Not Just an Amateur Galileo and the Boys Early American Weathermen Watching Your Weather Getting Fancy Cool Weather Experiments

Part V : The Part of Tens Chapter 15: Ten (or So) Biggest U.S. Weather Disasters of the 20th Century

The Galveston Hurricane The Dust Bowl Super Tornado Outbreak, 1974 Hurricane Camille The Great Midwest Flood El Niño Episodes Hurricane Andrew, 1992 New England Hurricane, 1938 Superstorm, March 1993 Tri-State Tornado, 1925 Tornado Outbreak of May 1999 The Great Okeechobee Flood and Hurricane of 1928 Florida Keys Hurricane, 1935 New England Blizzard, 1978 Storm of the Century, 1950

Chapter 16: Ten (or So) Worst World Weather Disasters of the 20th Century

Droughts Floods Typhoons, Cyclones, and Hurricanes Winter Storms Pollution

Chapter 17: Ten Crafty Critters

Cats Dogs Frogs Ants Birds Caterpillars Squirrels Groundhog Livestock Fish

Chapter 18: Ten Grand Old Weather Proverbs

Red Sky at Night, Sailor’s Delight . . . Clear Moon, Frost Soon Early Thunder, Early Spring After Frost, Warm . . . Mare’s Tails and Mackerel Scales . . . Rainbow in the Morning . . . When Halo Rings the Moon . . . Rain Long Foretold . . . A Year of Snow, a Year of Plenty In Like a Lion and Out Like a Lamb

Internet Resource Directory

Government Web Sites University Web Sites Special Resources Commercial Web Sites Newsgroups E-mail List One Final Site . . .

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