It takes the average reader 3 hours and 40 minutes to read Scanning the Skies by Marlene Bradford
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Tornadoes, nature's most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly one thousand times yearly and have claimed eighteen thousand American lives since 1880. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau--fearing public panic and believing tornadoes were too fleeting for meteorologists to predict--forbade the use of the word "tornado" in forecasts until 1938. Scanning the Skies traces the history of today's tornado warning system, a unique program that integrates federal, state, and local governments, privately controlled broadcast media, and individuals. Bradford examines the ways in...
Scanning the Skies by Marlene Bradford is 220 pages long, and a total of 55,000 words.
This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours to read Scanning the Skies aloud.
Scanning the Skies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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