About the Author:
Tim Vasquez is an experienced meteorologist and chaser whose skill at forecasting severe weather has become legendary. In 1989 he began a decade of service as an Air Force meteorologist, initially working at the Nevada Test Site for the Stealth Fighter program, which was still semi-secret. At RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom he was the lead forecaster for an American B-1B bomber fleet that roared over Normandy to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day. At Mombasa, Kenya he was one of the most qualified forecasters assisting United Nations airlifts into Rwanda in the wake of a disastrous civil war. In 1992 Tim began writing weather analysis software tools, and by 1996 he gravitated to the severe weather hub of Norman, Oklahoma. Since 2000, Tim has provided severe weather classes in the wintertime, plus forecasting services in the springtime for over 50 chasers annually. He also has been a Weatherwise magazine columnist since 2001. Tim enjoys traveling, astronomy, flight simulators, brewing beer, and reading just about anything related to science, geography, history, and cartography. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
Review:
For anyone interested in American extreme weather and/or weather map analysis, Extreme American Weather is a must-have book for their bookshelf. Though it is brief in its description of the human factors the stories of most of these events are well-documented elsewhere it gives clear discussions of the state of the atmosphere precipitating the events. I found the maps used in the book very legible considering the reduction necessary to fit the large format maps on a book page. --Keith Heidorn, The Weather Doctor Book Reviews
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