Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a storm chaser. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
Vivid and personal account of confronting some of the planet's most violent weather.
The weather used to be reported after the news; today, it often is the news. Tracking news-making weather, storm chasers seek dramatic images of tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, lightning storms, and...
If you're heading into the field or you just have an interest in severe weather forecasting, Storm Chasing Handbook is the book you can't afford to be without.
The Man Who Caught the Storm is an “adrenaline rush of a tornado chase…Readers from all across the spectrum will enjoy this” (Library Journal, starred review) unforgettable exploration of obsession and the extremes of the natural ...
There, she spots the most beautiful black-and-while paint filly she’s ever seen. She just knows . . . this is the year, and that is the horse.
Presents life-or-death dilemmas and choices for the reader to choose from including, facing a tornado, hurricane, or flash flood.
Filled with bold graphics, vivid full-color photography, and easy activities to be done at home, this book is the definitive "inside scoop" into the brave lives of storm chasers.
Stormchaser is the second book of the Twig Saga - second trilogy in The Edge Chronicles, the internationally best-selling fantasy series, which has featured on the UK and the New York Times best-seller lists and sold more than 3 million ...
Includes eight pages of photos taken by Hill showing many of the storms he chronicles in the book.
In simple language just right for beginning readers, an action-packed story catches the excitement as storm trackers risk their lives to learn about the weather in order to keep us safe from the ravages of gale force winds or the blizzard ...