Description

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Heat waves, hurricanes, and hailstorms, OH MY! 
For amateur forecasters and causal climatologists, it’s a year of fascinating facts, unforgettable storms, and the science behind them. Extreme Events—consider how Tropical Storm Denise deluged Reunion Island with 71.85 inches of rain in 24 hours, or the 8 inches of snow that fell in Laramie, Wyoming, in the middle of the summer. Extreme Places: Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is considered the hottest city on Earth, with average June high temps of 111˚. Plus the strongest tornadoes in history and Did You Know facts and terms such as a “bolt from the blue”—when lightning strikes as far as 20 miles or more from the actual storm. Printed on responsibly sourced paper and 100% recyclable.

 

About the Author

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Dr. Daniel Swain is a climate scientist in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds concurrent appointments as a Research Fellow in the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and as the California Climate Fellow at The Nature Conservancy of California. He holds a PhD in Earth System Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis.