Freaks of the Storm: From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder: The World's Strangest True Weather Stories

A treasury of unusual weather tales reports such oddities as tornadoes that have plucked chickens of their feathers, lightning that has stripped victims of their clothing, and hailstorms that have ended or prevented wars.

Author: Randy Cerveny
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 12/29/2005
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.18h x 6.44w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781560258018
ISBN10: 1560258012
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Earth Sciences | Meteorology & Climatology
- Science | Life Sciences | Ecology

About the Author
A contributing editor of the popular national weather magazine Weatherwise, Dr. Randy Cerveny is a professor who specializes in weather and climate at Arizona State University, where he is one of four professors out of a faculty of 1,700 honored with the title of President's Professor. He has studied weather on all seven of the world's continents.

His research has ranged from studying the weather associated with prison escapes to computing the weather of the next 10,000 years (used in the design of the nuclear waste depository at Yucca Mountain). For his research demonstrating that it rains more on weekends than on weekdays, the BBC, CNN, ABC News, NPR and others interviewed him, and he has appeared live on the NBC Today show and on the CBS Morning Show.

His research has been discussed in such diverse publications as People, USA Today, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated, and in numerous newspapers around the country, as well as in a recent documentary by the BBC. He is the author of over ninety technical articles on weather and climate in journals such as Science and Nature.