Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... winter conditions is called Dogwood Winter in eastern North America , occurring as it does when the magnificent dogwood tree is in bloom . That this phenomenon falls during that second week of May , and not the first or third week , or ...
... winter conditions is called Dogwood Winter in eastern North America , occurring as it does when the magnificent dogwood tree is in bloom . That this phenomenon falls during that second week of May , and not the first or third week , or ...
Pàgina 194
... winters in eastern North America brought record snowfall and near - record cold temperatures to New England and many other places . During the winter of 1993-1994 , Hartford , Connecticut , recorded the coldest two - month average of ...
... winters in eastern North America brought record snowfall and near - record cold temperatures to New England and many other places . During the winter of 1993-1994 , Hartford , Connecticut , recorded the coldest two - month average of ...
Pàgina 195
... winter weather , whereas it is already evident in the sum- mertime . And , as Stevens states , " the behavior of snow in a warming climate is paradoxical . " Very cold air cannot hold enough moisture to sus- tain major snowstorms ; with ...
... winter weather , whereas it is already evident in the sum- mertime . And , as Stevens states , " the behavior of snow in a warming climate is paradoxical . " Very cold air cannot hold enough moisture to sus- tain major snowstorms ; with ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
Copyright | |
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