Blizzards.
Blizzards.
- 3rd edition.
- Chicago, IL : World Book, Inc., [2018]
- 56 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
- World Book's library of natural disasters .
Includes index.
What is a blizzard? -- Blizzards back in time -- Blizzard winds -- Blizzards of 1888 -- Blizzards and the human body -- Blizzards around the world -- Napoleon's grand retreat -- The white hurricane of 1913 -- Storm damage -- After a blizzard -- Race to the South Pole -- Hard lessons of 1922 -- The superstorm of 1993 -- Potomac air crash -- The billion-dollar blizzard of 1996 -- Surviving a blizzard -- Chicago's "big snow" of 1967 -- The Groundhog Day blizzard of 2011 -- Blizzard rescue -- Boston winter of 2014-15 -- Forecasting blizzards -- Eastern U.S. blizzard of 2016.
Stories from more than a century of blizzards, plus surviving in and rescuing after a blizzard. "A discussion of blizzards, describing their characteristics, formation, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant blizzards and other snowstorms from history"--
9780716699293 9780716699286 (set)
Blizzards--Juvenile literature.
Winter storms--Juvenile literature.
Storms--Juvenile literature.
QC 926.32 / .B619 2018
Includes index.
What is a blizzard? -- Blizzards back in time -- Blizzard winds -- Blizzards of 1888 -- Blizzards and the human body -- Blizzards around the world -- Napoleon's grand retreat -- The white hurricane of 1913 -- Storm damage -- After a blizzard -- Race to the South Pole -- Hard lessons of 1922 -- The superstorm of 1993 -- Potomac air crash -- The billion-dollar blizzard of 1996 -- Surviving a blizzard -- Chicago's "big snow" of 1967 -- The Groundhog Day blizzard of 2011 -- Blizzard rescue -- Boston winter of 2014-15 -- Forecasting blizzards -- Eastern U.S. blizzard of 2016.
Stories from more than a century of blizzards, plus surviving in and rescuing after a blizzard. "A discussion of blizzards, describing their characteristics, formation, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant blizzards and other snowstorms from history"--
9780716699293 9780716699286 (set)
Blizzards--Juvenile literature.
Winter storms--Juvenile literature.
Storms--Juvenile literature.
QC 926.32 / .B619 2018
