Learn about measures of central tendency while following the lives and work of hurricane hunters! This engaging title teaches readers about the instruments that hurricane hunters use and encourages them to analyze the data that these instruments collect. With these exciting examples, readers will be able to master mathematical statistics, measures of central tendency, mean, median, mode, range, and more! This title features vivid images, exciting practice problems, easy-to-read text, STEM themes, clear mathematical charts, and an accessible glossary and index.
It's a sunny, beautiful day on America's southeastern coast. But out in the Atlantic Ocean, chaos is brewing. Waves are crashing. Winds are blowing. And the National Hurricane Center is calling the Hurricane Hunters! A special weather reconnaissance squadron of the Air Force, these brave men and women fly their WC-130 Hercules aircraft into the heart of a two-hundred-mile-wide hurricane and collect information: in which direction the hurricane is heading, how fast it's moving, and how big it's growing. Before the end of their twelve-hour flight, the Hurricane Hunters will have gathered enough information to save many lives. Acclaimed author and artist Chris L. Demarest takes you inside the storm with these real-life adventurers who risk their lives to keep our shorelines safe.
Sketches featuring three storm chasers presented in graphic novel format accompany information about the history of storm chasing and requirements for the job of storm chaser.
"In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding of hurricanes was directly built on the risks and sacrifices of living, breathing heroes," writes Hampton Sides (author of Ghost Soldiers). In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantánamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet swirling in the Caribbean: a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy had discovered a new civilian arena where daring pilots could test their courage and skill. These Hurricane Hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without computer, global positioning, or satellite support, they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, Stormchasers reconstructs the ill-fated mission of Windham's crew from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission.
Learn about measures of central tendency while following the lives and work of hurricane hunters! This engaging title teaches readers about the instruments that hurricane hunters use and encourages them to analyze the data that these instruments collect. With these exciting examples, readers will be able to master mathematical statistics, measures of central tendency, mean, median, mode, range, and more! This title features vivid images, exciting practice problems, easy-to-read text, STEM themes, clear mathematical charts, and an accessible glossary and index. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
Filled with the tension and drama of a hurricane itself, this is a brutally realistic novel of "Hurricane Hilda," the victims of its unrelenting fury, and the men who try to understand, forecast, and minimize the effects of this deadly ravager. In this gripping novel, William C. Anderson, himself and ex-hurricane hunter and Air Force pilot, explores the terrifying and awesome world of Captain Louis Sheffield, one of the unsung heroes of man's battle against the natural elements. Assisted by only a skeleton crew, Sheffield must fly into the calm eye of the raging turbulence of Hilda in order to determine the power and potential of her winds. Anderson weaves an absorbing tale of suspense as the irascible HIlda spews forth her wrath, creating a series of agonizing crises for all those in her path : at Houston Space Center, Texas, the success of a multi-million-dollar Apollo moon shot and the lives of the astronauts are at stake; off the Florida coast a wealthy New York advertising tycoon and his beautiful young daughter are trapped in the eye of the hurricane without food or fuel; in Washington, D.C., a stroke victim whose one chance for survival lies in a heart transplant is readied for a crash landing on an airfield already buffeted by hurricane winds; and around the country thousands of others wait and hope for survival as the storm plows its deadly course up the coast. Each year the hurricane season threatens to devastate the Atlantic Coast. By going behind the scenes, into the lives and hearts of those who must deal with hurricanes, often with feeble aircraft in which they fly reconnaissance missions as dangerous as those in combat, Anderson has captured the dangers, the violence, and the heroism in a novel of great power. It is also a warmly human story of the love and devotion shared by the dauntless Captain Sheffield and his brave new bride. An exciting account of man's batter against nature unleashed, THE HURRICANE HUNTERS will prove engrossing reading for all who are intrigued by the adventure and scientific challenge presented by one of the world's most destructive natural forces.
Washington Post • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 Finalist • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Kirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 Library Journal • Best Science & Technology Books of 2020 Booklist • 10 Top Sci-Tech Books of 2020 New York Times Book Review • Editor's Choice With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. In this “compelling” chronicle (New York Times Book Review), Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America through its battles with hurricanes.Weaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, from the nameless storms that threatened the New World voyages to our own era of global warming and megastorms. Along the way, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, and forces us to reckon with the reality that future storms will likely be worse, unless we reimagine our relationship with the planet.
