Book
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Ice storms
Edition
Third edition.
Publication Information
Chicago, IL : World Book, Inc., [2018]
Physical Description
55 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm.
Audience
Ages 5-11.
Summary
"A discussion of ice storms, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant ice storms and other freezing events from history"--
Notes
Includes glossary and index.
At head of title: Library of natural disasters.
Contents
- What is an ice storm?
- Frozen solid
- The North American ice storms of 2007
- What causes ice storms?
- Freezing rain
- The "great blizzard" of 1951
- The human cost
- Deadly cold
- The 1921 ice storm
- The El Niño effect
- The Southern United States ice storm of 1994
- The great ice storm of 1998
- Surviving an ice storm
- The Christmas 2000 ice storm
- Forecasting ice storms
- The Midwest ice storm of 2006
- The Kentucky ice storm of 2009
- The North American ice storm of 2013
- The 2014 ice storms of the U.S. South.