Tornado alley  -  Howard B. Bluestein

monster storms of the Great Plains

KORTE INHOUD

Tornadoes are one of the most violent, magnificent, and utterly unpredictable storms on earth, reaching estimated wind speeds of 300 mph and leaving swaths of destruction in their wake. In Tornado Alley, Howard Bluestein draws on two decades of experience chasing and photographing tornadoes across the Great Plains to present a fascinating historical account of the study of tornadoes and the great thunderstorms that spawn them.

To date, no instrument designed to measure wind speed has ever survived a direct h...
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1999 Uitgever: Oxford University Press 180 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0195105524 ISBN-13: 9780195105520