- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Facts on File Inc; 2Rev Ed edition (30 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0816047960
- ISBN-13: 978-0816047963
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 19.5 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,763,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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By far the most vehement storm known on Earth, the tornado has an average life span of no more than half an hour. Yet, during that time, it will expend about as much energy as is used to light the streets of New York City for one night. This updated and revised volume in the Dangerous Weather series explores tornadoes. Organized and written in an easy-to-follow style, author Michael Allaby answers the most important questions students and non-specialists have about tornadoes and he provides a general overview of the current information that shapes the way tornadoes are understood and studied. Featured coverage includes a definition of tornado; discussion about what happens when warm and cold air collide and how wind changes with height; explanations of jet streams, squall lines, thunderstorms, supercells, vortices and angular momentum, dust devils, and waterspouts; answers to questions such as how does a tornado begin, what happens inside a tornado, how does a tornado travel, and how does a tornado die; and a look at when and where tornadoes happen, Tornado Alley, tornadoes in Europe, and tornadoes of the past.
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Format:Paperback
`Tornadoes and other dramatic weather systems.'
`It's a weird world out there........dazzle your mates with mad facts and much more in this mega new series!
In Oklahoma, a herd of cattle were sucked up by a tornado and put back unharmed!
A hurricane can be 800 km wide and create a sea surge as high as a three-storey house!
The sun's rays are a sizzling 5500 degrees C!'
96 shiny, high quality pages, split over 12 main chapters:-
Introduction
What is weather?
Calm skies, angry skies
Tornadoes
Waterspouts and dusty devils
Hurricanes
Below freezing
Too much rain
Deadly drought
Special effects
Polluting the air
Weather watchers
with a reference section, including glossary and a concise index.
Packed full of colour pictures and `weird world notes', e.g.
`Death Valley in the US got its name in 1849 when 30 people used the valley as a shortcut to the goldfields.
Air temperatures of 57 degrees C caused 12 people to die from heatstroke.'
or
`The sky looks blue because when blue light hits air molecules it scatters all over the sky, while all the other colours pass straight through the air to the ground.'
`It's a weird world out there........dazzle your mates with mad facts and much more in this mega new series!
In Oklahoma, a herd of cattle were sucked up by a tornado and put back unharmed!
A hurricane can be 800 km wide and create a sea surge as high as a three-storey house!
The sun's rays are a sizzling 5500 degrees C!'
96 shiny, high quality pages, split over 12 main chapters:-
Introduction
What is weather?
Calm skies, angry skies
Tornadoes
Waterspouts and dusty devils
Hurricanes
Below freezing
Too much rain
Deadly drought
Special effects
Polluting the air
Weather watchers
with a reference section, including glossary and a concise index.
Packed full of colour pictures and `weird world notes', e.g.
`Death Valley in the US got its name in 1849 when 30 people used the valley as a shortcut to the goldfields.
Air temperatures of 57 degrees C caused 12 people to die from heatstroke.'
or
`The sky looks blue because when blue light hits air molecules it scatters all over the sky, while all the other colours pass straight through the air to the ground.'
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