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The Severe and Hazardous Weather website accompanies the textbook Severe and
Hazardous Weather: An Introduction to High Impact Meteorology, authored by
Bob Rauber,
John Walsh,
and Donna Charlevoix
and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
The textbook is written for college
students taking an introductory course in severe and hazardous weather.
The text can also serve as an excellent alternative to introductory texts in general
meteorology courses. It is designed to be used at the university level with
students that range in background from non-science majors to meteorology majors but can
also be targeted to advanced high school students.
The book also serves as a comprehensive resource for professionals in
meteorology and will be valuable to the National Weather Service, National
Research Laboratories, and private industry.
Severe and Hazardous Weather provides a current, relevant, and
scientifically accurate discussion of all types of hazardous weather. The
material is presented in a manner that students with a wide variety of
backgrounds can understand; conveying meteorological concepts in a descriptive
manner without resorting to mathematics.
Severe and Hazardous Weather provides summaries of major recent weather events including
the European heat wave of 2003, the record-breaking hurricane season of 2004, 2003 droughtbusting snowfall in
Colorado, Hurricane Isabel (2003), the Aurora, Nebraska record-size hail event, the record cold in
the Northeastern U.S. during the winter of 2003, and the Santa Anas of 2003
that fueled wildfires across the Los Angeles Basin.
Severe and Hazardous Weather also features historic hazardous
weather events including Hurricane Mitch, the May 3, 1999
tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Kansas, the North Dakota blizzards of 1996-97,
the Mississippi Flood of 1993, the El Nino events of 1997 and 1982-83, and many
others.
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