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Extreme Weather (Outdoor Life): 214 Tips for Surviving Nature's Worst Flexibound – Illustrated, October 6, 2015

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Extreme weather has the ability to leave us devastated, but with the easy-to-follow Extreme Weather Survival Manual you’ll be ready for anything Mother Nature throws at you. Dennis Mersereau and the editors of Outdoor Life magazine offer their life saving advice to help you survive blizzards, hurricanes, firestorms and much more.

As a weather reporter, it’s only natural that Dennis Mersereau is a self-proclaimed weather freak. Slate.com said of him, “Don’t mess with the Mersereau. He will find your weather fables and he will crush them . . . We need more Dennises. In fact, the National Weather Service itself should be run by Dennis, with each local office headed by a Dennis-like weather blogger tasked with explaining the relevant weather news of the day, and entertaining us when the weather is boring.” Luckily for you, he’s partnered with the outdoor experts at Outdoor Life to bring you the foolproof guide to surviving extreme weather.

From how to read the sky, to which of your grandma’s no-fail weather predicting tips actually work, to how to survive a Storm of the Century, this book has you covered. Filled with weird weather facts (what are those weird sounds under the snow and should you worry about them?) to hands-on survival hints (literally hands-on. Like, don’t lose your fingers to frostbite) to true tales of amazing survival, the Extreme Weather Survival Manual is the one book you need to weather any storm. With high-quality design, intricate detail, and a durable, wipe-clean flexicover with metallic corner-guards—this manual is the perfect gift!

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Dennis Mersereau is the lead writer for Gawker’s weather vertical, The Vane. He also contributes to the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang, writes as "weatherdude" on DailyKos.

For over 110 years, Outdoor Life has provided outdoor and urban survival expertise to millions of readers. Their authors have written on everything from disaster preparedness to subsistence hunting and fishing, to which guns to use against the undead (really!). Readers count on them for survival information from the everyday (will I get rained on if I go fishing in Montana in April?) to the extreme (what if my plane crashes in a remote area?).

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TIP 97: LEARN A STORM’S SECRET

Looking at the radar is a great way to know where all that precipitation is located, but sometimes we also need to use that precipitation to tell us secrets about the storm’s inner workings. The two most common products available to radar users across the world are called “reflectivity” and “velocity.” Reflectivity is used to make the maps you’re probably used to seeing, with rainbow-colored shading that shows where the heaviest rain and snow are pouring down at the moment.

Velocity, meanwhile, tells us the speed that a storm is traveling by using the Doppler effect to determine how fast, say, a raindrop is moving. So, if the raindrop is moving east at 45 MPH, we can deduce that the winds in that region of the storm are blowing at around 45 MPH. This measure is extremely helpful in severe weather situations, especially during tornadoes.

The velocity data can rat out a tornado hiding in the rain. Most radar velocity images are shown in red and green, with reds showing wind moving away from the radar, and greens showing wind moving toward the radar. When all those red and green colors show strong winds moving in opposite directions very close to one another, you often have strong circulation in a thunderstorm or a tornado on your hands. These regions of rotation can be very subtle and hard to spot during weak tornadoes, and obvious during the most violent storms.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Weldon Owen; Illustrated edition (October 6, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Flexibound ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616289538
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616289539
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches

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Dennis Mersereau enjoys all types of atmospheric tantrums, from powerful thunderstorms to heavy snow. After studying political science and meteorology in college, he went off to write for the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang and Gawker’s weather vertical, The Vane, as well as for Popular Science, Mental Floss, Forbes, and The Weather Network. He wrote The Skies Above (Mountaineers Books, coming 2022) and teamed up with survival experts to write The Extreme Weather Survival Manual (Outdoor Life, 2015). He lives in North Carolina. Find him online at damweather.com or on Twitter @wxdam.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2017

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I love the Outdoor Life Series.

This book was very difficult to put down once I started flipping the pages. Given this day and age of natural disasters, the material contained within is very informative, with lots of photographs to help identify various weather patterns. I like the way the natural occurrences are broken down by the season in which they are most likely to occur. Practical advise is given in easy and simple terms on what to do and what not to do in a given natural emergency. What I find most helpful is the way this book breaks down fact from truth on the various survival guidance we have been taught over time.

This book is a valuable resource that I will gladly add to my gift list as something someone probably does not already have in their library.

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I love Dennis Mersereau's approach to weather information -- factual

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2015

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I love Dennis Mersereau's approach to weather information -- factual, science based, but written in a style that's fun to read and easy for a non-specialist to understand. This book is all that and more, with great photos, a logical seasonal organization and quality printing and binding. I ordered the first copy for myself, but seeing the actual book in print I'm already thinking of those it would make a great gift for.

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A Book That Needs to be on Every Family’s Bookshelf

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In this era of climate change every household needs a go to resource on surviving natural disasters. Complete, easy to read and great graphics. I feel this book is a key piece in having a safe home. A great investment.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2017

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I followed Dennis Mersereau when he wrote for The Vane and simply loved how he made weather and climate relatable and easy to understand for the layperson while never talking down to his readers. This book is no different. His writing is engaging, often humorous but, at the same time, conveys the urgency of extreme weather conditions and provides life saving information in a way that makes a lasting impression. If you live in an area that's plagued with unpredictable weather as I do or, if you just love reading well written, scientifically sound books about it, I highly recommend this one.

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The good and the bad

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2024

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This book is loaded with useful information on all things weather related and dealing with it. That’s the good, the bad is it has a completely useless index as there are no page numbers anywhere in the book, only in the front under the contents are the subjects covered listed and they do not correlate to pages, only to the subject order. For that, the publisher gets an F.

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In depth, easy to read, and overall amazing

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020

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Amazingly in-depth review of extreme weather. I’m quite amazed at the breadth of knowledge and highly suggest this book for anybody who may end up in the path of extreme weather.

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