This course provides an overview of extreme weather events, including winter storms, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves and polar vortices. Emphasis is placed on understanding the physical atmospheric processes involved, storm prediction, of impacts of the storms and extreme events.

This course provides an overview of extreme weather events, including winter storms, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves and polar vortices. Emphasis is placed on understanding the physical atmospheric processes involved, storm prediction, of impacts of the storms and extreme events.