Weather Science

Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin and her new husband, the Djinn David, are running from a malevolent hurricane bent on destroying her. Joined by an army of fellow Wardens and Djinn on board a hijacked luxury liner, Joanne has lured the storm into furious pursuit. But even their combined magic may not be enough to stop it-nor the power-mad ex-Weather Warden controlling it....

Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin; her husband, the djinn David; and the Earth herself have been poisoned by a substance that destroys the magic that keeps the world alive. The poison is destabilizing the entire balance of power, bestowing magic upon those who have never had it, and removing it from those who need it. It's just a matter of time before the delicate balance of nature explodes into chaos - and doom.

Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is on vacation when her Djinn lover, David, asks Joanne to marry him. She's thrilled to say yes, even if some others may be less than happy about it. Unfortunately, Joanne's pre-marital bliss is ended by a devastating earthquake in Florida. And she can't ask David and his kind for assistance. Because the cause of the quake is unlike anything Joanne has ever encountered - and a power even the Djinn cannot perceive.

After preventing Mother Earth from destroying the planet, Joanne Baldwin lost her memories, thanks to Ashan the djinn. And they will remain lost forever unless Joanne can recover her identity and destroy the demon who is impersonating her - fabulous shoes and all.

Describes how clouds form, and explains the differences between cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus clouds.

A riveting examination of the human experience as Mother Nature wreaks havoc. From the author of The Hinge Factor comes a thrilling series of dramatic historical re-creations revealing how the fate of humankind has often been decided by the uncontrollable, unpredictable power of weather. From the doomed campaigns of the Roman legions and Napoleon to the fate of US forces in the South Pacific and Vietnam, torrential rain, brutal winters, monster typhoons, and killer hurricanes have had far-reaching - and often terrifying - consequences.

The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena.

Employing in-depth reporting on cutting edge science and technology, veteran journalist Thomas E. Weber takes us on a tour of how meteorologists, scientists, and officials track and prepare for major weather events. As climate change is altering our planet and making weather events more extreme, Weber introduces us to those on the front lines of weather preparation and prediction.

Introducing an extraordinary read that promises to captivate your mind and unlocks the mystical world of the Purple Martins - The Flight Plan of Purple Martins. This comprehensive ebook reveals the secret behind the enigma of Martin Migration that has long perplexed researchers and bird enthusiasts. Starting with the Introduction, the book dives straight into the life and times of Martins and their historical significance. It then encompasses the essence of Martins' migration patterns and the critical role of climate and weather in their movement in Chapter 3 and 5. One of the highlights of...

Produced by Climate Central — a highly regarded, independent, nonprofit journalism and research organization founded in 2008 — and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we already know about the science of climate change. It explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future and lays out in practical terms what we can and cannot do to avoid further shifts.

Touch the ocean, Your Ocean! The award-winning Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions, by celebrated craniosacral therapist, James Nemec, narrates compelling stories of heart centered presence and ocean healing. Journey again beyond traditional medicine with this volume of actual case histories performed on a massage table and now in the ocean.

On her first assignment out of the Academy, young healer and scholar Shannon Macaulay is summoned to the struggling kingdom of Regone to see to the wounds of a young but crippled king. When the unwanted attentions of an aggressive knight and the sudden appearance of a hated dragon turn her world upside down, she decides to take matters into her own hands even if doing so proves dangerous.

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death - with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, time, and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they're likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that.

Fall brings cooler weather and in autumn there are shorter days. The leaves change from green to orange, red, and purple, until they start falling to the ground.

Kids will explore why the weather is constantly changing in this fun, rhyming audiobook about the weather.

For the last few years, and especially in 2011, a new extreme weather event seems to pop up each week. Some decide to stick around: Texas and Oklahoma have been suffering from historic droughts for six months, with no sign of relief. No sooner does Hurricane Irene disappear than Tropical Storm Lee appears to flood Louisiana and stir up wildfires in nearby Texas. We seem beset by more, and more extreme, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, torrential rainstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards than any of us can remember.

Si los cambios de tiempo te alteran el ánimo, el invierno te entristece y las rodillas te chivan que va a llover, es muy probable que seas meteorosensibleDamos por hecho que las borrascas nos deprimen, que existe la astenia primaveral, que los vientos nos enloquecen y que la luna afecta al ciclo menstrual de las mujeres. Pero, ¿qué hay de cierto en ello? Y más importante aún, que otros aspectos ambientales o cambios meteorológicos pueden afectar a nuestra salud física y mental.

Available for the first time in a single volume, all five Nyssa Glass Adventures. Nyssa Glass is a reformed cat burglar turned electrician's apprentice, settled into a life repairing videophones and radio-sets. However, when her past comes calling, she finds herself on the run for a murder she did not commit. As her quiet life goes up in sparks, she must face killer robots, menacing villains, and sarcastic computers in a race for survival.

Reconnect with nature and learn everything about the wonderful wild. Curator of the Thorp Perrow arboretum, Faith Douglas takes us on an adventure and spans across all areas of nature to show how trees, birds, insects, seasons and the weather can impact us for the better, how they can heal and improve our mental and physical well-being.

While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and he began to wonder what current and impending - and largely unanticipated - crises such changes have in store for the world. Forecast provides the answers. Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. Italy has already experienced its first climate-change epidemic of a tropical disease, and malaria is gaining ground in Africa.