| Description |
159 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 x 26 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: into the looking glass -- The weather puzzle -- From signal flags to doppler radar: reporting the weather -- Tornado: the king of storms -- Camanche tornado of 1860 -- From twister to blizzard in 48 hours -- 1990 tornado outbreak: live! -- Thunder, lightning & hail -- Pennies, baseballs, and golfballs: understanding hail -- Flood -- The great flood of 1965 -- From tranquil stream to raging torrent: the 1990 Duck Creek flood -- Ring of fire and water: the great flood of 1993 -- Heat wave -- The sizzling July of 1936 -- Snow, wind & bone-chilling cold: winter in the Quad Cities -- The telephone wire winter of 1936 -- Autumn's wrath: the deadly Armistice Day storm of 1940 -- The big chill: January 1979 -- The Northern Lights: a different storm -- Storm watch: an epilogue. |
| Subject |
Climatic extremes -- Middle West.
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Climatic extremes. |
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Middle West. |
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Natural disasters -- Middle West.
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Natural disasters. |
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Weather.
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Weather. |
| ISBN |
1560373326 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9781560373322 |
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