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Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a local television meteorologist descends on their school in an air balloon and begins teaching the class all kinds of interesting things about weather, A.J. and the gang are astonished when their school is thrown into chaos by an incredibly weird storm.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary novel of two sisters trying to find new life--one in her marriage and faith, the other desperate for a chance at a future"--
3) Turbulence
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The D-day landings—the fate of 2.5 million men, three thousand landing craft and the entire future of Europe depend on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing on an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even possible to predict the weather so far ahead? And what is the relationship between predictability and turbulence, one of the last great mysteries...
7) Ark storm
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Ark Storm is coming--a catastrophic weather event that will unleash massive floods and wreak more damage on California than the feared "Big One." One man wants to profit from it. Another wants to harness it to wage jihad on American soil. One woman stands in their way: Dr. Gwen Boudain, a brave and brilliant meteorologist. When Boudain notices that her climate readings are off the charts, she turns to Gabriel Messenger for research funding. Messenger's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientist’s consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name.
Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather...
Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon, an imprint of Harlequin (UK) Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
287 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eve Read has been searching Australia for months for her missing brother, but when she meets meteorologist and biker Marshall Sullivan on the road, she wonders if her luck may finally be changing.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the contributions to the modern science of meteorology made by Luke Howard, the first to classify clouds; Sir Francis Beaufort, who quantified the winds; James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon; Samuel Morse, whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings; and Admiral Robert Fitzroy, master sailor, scientific pioneer, and founder of the UK's national weather service....
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this imaginary reminiscence, Charles Bentley recalls the life and times of his brother, Wilson A. Bentley, who made the study of snow his life's work.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Christmas miracle gives rival meteorologists Tara and Sam the opportunity of a lifetime to move up to the big leagues, but they must first beat an impending blizzard on their way to the city for an interview. Instead, they get stuck in the village of Mistletoe, where the holidays are no longer celebrated. Can they put aside their differences and bring Christmas back to a sleepy rural town.
16) Dry ice
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Flint Corp., a multinational agribusiness, has perfected weather control, altering the atmosphere to create and steer storms and reaping massive profits from the resulting crop failures and successes. When Greg Simpson, the inventor and chief programmer, goes rogue, pummeling Flint's own holdings, a hotshot young weather scientist Tess Beauchamp is sent to Antarctica to oust him and take control of the TESLA installation. But Greg won't go quietly--he's...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
75 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know there's more to her story than blizzards that are brewing or National Pancake Day celebrations. In this honest yet optimistic book, Janice reveals obstacles she's faced that...
20) The weatherman
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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