Extreme Weather: a Guide and Record Book.EXTREME WEATHER: A Guide and Record Book CHRISTOPHER C. BURT This book is crammed cram v. crammed, cram·ming, crams v.tr. 1. To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff. 2. To fill too tightly. 3. a. To gorge with food. with data, pictures, maps, and details of the science behind the oddities The Oddities were a professional wrestling stable in the WWF. History The Jackyl formed the group in 1998 and called them "The Parade of Human Oddities." The group consisted of "freakish" wrestlers, including the masked Golga (formerly Earthquake, whose mask had and extremes of nature: from hurricanes and cyclones to colored snow and mud showers. Statistics compiled since 1870 from more than 300 weather stations make this a comprehensive guide. Arranged in chapters named for types of weather, from "Heat and Drought" to "windstorms and Fog," the book reveals record-setting temperatures, the biggest hailstorms, barometric-pressure records, where it rains the most and the least, and details of every F5 tornado tornado, dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops below a heavy cumulonimbus cloud mass and extends toward the earth. The funnel twists about, rises and falls, and where it reaches the earth causes great destruction. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Burt explains why certain areas are prone to severe weather and how weather systems form in the United States and around the world. Norton, 2004, 304 p., color/b&w photos/illus., paperback, $24.95. |
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