Abstract: Weather salience is a construct that pertains to the psychological value, significance, and attunement that people have for the weather and its changes. In this article the author describes the construct of weather salience ...

Abstract: ost people do not realize that hurricane destructiveness increases nonlinearly with increases in storm intensity. Three studies were conducted to examine people?s perceptions of hurricane destructive potential and their ...

Abstract: AbstractWeeklong weather science and safety workshops were conducted with 66 teachers of kindergarten through eighth grade (K?8) in three Georgia counties using the American Red Cross (ARC) Masters of Disaster (MoD) ...

Abstract: he authors used data from a sample of 1465 adults living in the United States to perform a confirmatory factor analysis on the Weather Salience Questionnaire (WxSQ), a 29-item instrument designed to measure the ways in ...

Abstract: rior surveys of the public indicated that a variety of meanings and interpretations exist about the probability of precipitation (PoP). Does the same variety of meanings for the PoP exist among members of the professional ...

Abstract: A 44-yr climatology of nonconvective wind events (NCWEs) for the Great Lakes region has been created using hourly wind data for 38 first-order weather stations during the months of November through April. The data were ...