U.S. Severe Weather Terminology
Publisher: Wikipedia 2014
Number of pages: 301
Description:
This book describes severe weather terminology used by the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States. The NWS defines precise meanings for nearly all of its weather terms. This article describes NWS terminology and related weather scales used by the agency.
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