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Ice storms

Call Number

  • J 551.556 CLAY (CEN, OSH)

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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.

Added Authors

Barbara A Mayes

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