Outstanding Weather Phenomena In The Ark-La-Tex An Incomplete History of Significant Weather Events 1

by Billy Andrews

Overview

This book covers significant weather events that have occurred across the Ark-La-Tex region of the United States since the early part of the 20th century. All types of Ark-La-Tex weather from snow, sleet, and freezing rain, to hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and drought are discussed in the book. The reader of this book should acquire more knowledge about past history of the weather in the Ark-La-Tex. It is hoped that the casual reader will find the discussions of weather events as enjoyable to read as it was for the author to write about them.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149973880
Publisher:	FriesenPress
Publication date:	01/06/2015
Series:	Outstanding Weather Phenomena In The Ark-La-Tex , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Billy Andrews was born on July 30, 1958 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Due to a severe respitory defect at birth known as “trachea stenosis” he could not play sports with other boys his age. As a result he had to find other ways to entertain himself. In the middle to late 1960s Billy became interested in the weather. During the middle of the night when thunderstorms would move across the local area, he would get frightened, but at the same time he was fascinated as well. Billy wanted to know why these thunderstorms were occurring. He was also interested in the causes of snow, sleet, hail, rain, wind and tornadoes. Upon noticing Billy’s keen interest in the weather, his teacher (when Billy was age 9) asked Billy to provide the class with a weather forecast each day. Billy would get the weather forecast for the class from the television weather broadcast the night before. From the late 1960s to the late 1970s, Billy read all the books on the weather he could find in the elementary and junior high school libraries. This habit continued into high school. He absorbed as much information about weather and meteorology as he could, and at the same time he continued to deal with his respitory problem. On January 12, 1971 Billy wrote his first personally developed weather forecast, and 3 weeks later on February 4, 1971 he drew his first weather map. On January 9, 1973 he logged his first weather observation; however, he would have to wait until September 1978 for the National Weather Service to acknowledge him as an official cooperative weather observer. Since then Billy has logged down nearly 36 years of official daily weather observations at his residence. Although Billy still has to cope with his medical problem, he doesn’t let it stop him from doing what he loves best, studying and observing the weather, and being a cooperative weather observer for the National Weather Service.