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1) Jonas
Author
Series
The Minnesota Marshalls volume 2
Publisher
SDG Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonas Marshall is done storm-chasing, plagued with the memory of a terrible accident that paralyzed a fellow chaser, so the last thing he's going to do is run into more danger. Now, he's just a simple weatherman deploying dirigibles in an experiment to track weather patterns in Slovenia. As far from danger as he can get. But danger comes knocking in the form of hiker in need of rescue, and he can't deny that her companion--beautiful Sibba Kovac--is...
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.
3) Weather girl
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this charming romantic comedy from the author of The Ex Talk. Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station's news director,...
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"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college -- her northern Michigan hometown. Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood . ....
6) 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...
10) 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....
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.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When Joanne Simpson (1923-2010) was a girl, she sailed her boat beneath the puffy white clouds of Cape Cod. As a pilot, she flew her plane so high, its wings almost touched them. And when World War II began and Joanne moved to the University of Chicago, a professor asked her to teach Air Force officers about those very clouds and the weather-changing winds. As soon as the war ended, Joanne decided to seriously study the clouds she had grown to love...
19) 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."--
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