SIO15 Lecture 18: Severe Weather: Heat Waves and STorms · The 1995 Chicago Heat Waves...

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SIO15 Lecture 18: Severe Weather: Heat Waves and STormsLeftovers from Lecture 17

Weather and Climate Extremes

Heat Waves and Droughts (see Lectures 1/2)

The Heat Index

The 1930s Dust Bowl

The 1995 Chicago Heat Waves

Miscellaneous

Recent Events

2011 Texas

Fronts

Air Masses

Precipitation (will not be on the tests)

Wave Cyclones

Nor’Easters Pineapple Express

Blizzards

WATCH SHORT VIDEOS

Cold Storms

The Wind Chill

The Polar Vortex

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