The Extreme Weather Survival Manual: 214 Tips for Surviving Nature's Worst

by Dennis Mersereau, Outdoor Life

Fast facts and practical advice to keep you prepared, whether you’re dealing with mud or flood, drought or derecho.   This valuable, comprehensive guide is full of life-saving information for virtually any extreme weather event—blizzard, hurricane, firestorm, tornado, heatwave, and beyond. Weather reporter Dennis Mersereau, working with the editors of Outdoor Life magazine, debunks common myths, provides hands-on survival tips (some of them literally hands-on—as in, don’t lose your fingers to frostbite), and shares some fascinating historical facts and world records. Learn how Read a weather mapSurvive in a snowbound carStay oriented in a whiteoutMake waterproof matchesAvoid lightning hot spotsRescue someone caught in a floodKnow your monsoonsSurvive a sandstormMake peace with the polar vortexDrought-proof your home and much more   “Don’t mess with the Mersereau. He will find your weather fables and he will crush them…We need more Dennises. In fact, the National Weather Service itself should be run by Dennis, with each local office headed by a Dennis-like weather blogger tasked with explaining the relevant weather news of the day, and entertaining us when the weather is boring.”—Slate

Genres: Nonfiction, Survival

241 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2015

About the author

Dennis Mersereau enjoys all types of atmospheric tantrums, from powerful thunderstorms to heavy snow. After studying political science and meteorology in college, he went off to write for the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang and Gawker’s weather vertical, The Vane, as well as for Popular Science, Mental Floss, Forbes, and The Weather Network. He wrote The Skies Above (Mountaineers Books, 2022) and teamed up with survival experts to write The Extreme Weather Survival Manual (Outdoor Life, 2015). He lives in North Carolina. Find him online at damweather.com or on Twitter @wxdam.

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting. Lots of good graphics and pictures. Good illustrations and information on all four seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall) of weather and what one might expect.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found Dennis when he was writing for the now defunct Gawker subblog The Vane. This is a fun, plain language look at virtually every aspect of weather. Now I'm ready to handle El Nino!