Hurricanes (Tropical Cyclones)
Hurricane season in the Atlantic begins June 1st and ends November 30th so there's always a chance for some hurricane excitement when you go to the Eastern Shore.
Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes
q QC944.E43 2005
"With exceptionally clear prose, Emanuel explains the atmospheric forces that restrict hurricanes to tropical latitudes and upends popular misconceptions about their frequency, noting that the problem for research scientists is not why hurricanes develop, but why they hardly happen." -- Booklist
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the near Death of a Great American City
HV636 2005 .N4 H66 2006
Horne, the metro editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, gives an account of what happened after the levees broke. Browse the library catalog for many more books on Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
In October of 1991, three storms converge in the Western Atlantic off Gloucester, Massachusetts to form the "Perfect Storm" with winds up to 100 miles an hour and waves that topped 110 feet. In the middle of it is the Andrea Gail, a swordfishing vessel with a six-man crew.
Black Cloud: The Great Florida Hurricane of 1928
Largely forgotten and unnamed, the September 16, 1928 hurricane took the lives of 7,000 people. Kleinberg presents vivid pictures of dozens of individual ordeals and recounts the tale of black suffering in the region around Lake Okeechobee, which appears in Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
F394.G2 L37 1999
This is an account of the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas and killed more than 6,000 people. It is told from the perspective of Isaac Cline, then the senior U.S. Weather Bureau official in Galveston. The weather bureau ignored forecasts from Cuban meteorologists, who had accurately predicted the Galveston storm's course and true scale.
Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth
Learn the science and history of hurricanes from meteorologist Williams and science journalist Sheets.
Category 5: The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane
"Camille, which swept through coastal Mississippi and Louisiana in August 1969, was the storm that inspired the five-level scale currently used to predict the damage inflicted by hurricanes, and remains the only Category 5 storm-the strongest-to make landfall in modern American history." -- Publishers Weekly
(DVD) QC945.H83945 2004x
Presenting film-footage, first-hand accounts, and commentary by experts, this program examines a number of the hurricanes that have had devastated U.S. coasts over the last few decades, including Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Gilbert, and Hurricane Camille.
Browse the Catalog
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National Hurricane Center (hurricanes.gov)
This is NOAA's National Weather service hurricane center. It reports on both the Atlantic - Caribbean Sea - Gulf of Mexico region and the Eastern Pacific region.
Learn what you should do if you are in the path of a hurricane.
- Hurricane Preparedness
Weather updates and hurricane facts and history.
This site has lots of satellite images without much text but if you go to their blog, you can see updated commentary with a lot of explanatory text.
NASA Hurricanes/Tropical Cyclones
Latest storm images and data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NOLA Hurricane News and Storm Tracking
From the publishers of the Times-Picayune newspaper, here are updates to any existing hurricanes in the Caribbean region.
Information on how to prepare for a hurricane and what to do during one.
Last updated January 16, 2013