You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

METEOROLOGICAL MADNESS
 
 
�            Mete­o­rol­o­gy is a branch of Earth sci­ences that focus­es on weath­er
fore­cast­ing. It’s been around for cen­turies, but it only took its mod­ern,
sci­en­tif­ic look in the 1700s.
 
�       The Medieval Warm Peri­od (MWP) was a peri­od of warm­ing in the
North Atlantic from about CE 950 to 1250. The warm­ing allowed the
Vikings to build set­tle­ments in Green­land which were sub­se­quent­ly
aban­doned due to cli­mate con­di­tions chang­ing.
 
�            Mawsyn­ram, India holds the Guin­ness World Record for the most
rain­fall in a sin­gle year, with 1,000 inch­es in 1985. The vil­lage
aver­ages 467 inch­es of rain per year.
 
�            Today, most tele­vi­sion news weath­er pre­sen­ters in the US have
degrees in mete­o­rol­o­gy, but back in the 1960s, they were usu­al­ly
“weath­er girls” who were known more for their looks than their
knowl­edge.
 
�            The Weath­er Chan­nel (TWC) began air­ing on May 2, 1982. The
chan­nel was rat­ed as the most trust­ed media net­work in a 2022
Econ­o­mist poll.
 
�       A hur­ri­cane is a storm sys­tem that rapid­ly rotates and is marked by a
low-pres­sure cen­ter, or “eye.” In most loca­tions, these are known as
cyclones, but in the North Atlantic and East­ern Pacif­ic, they are
hur­ri­canes.
 
�       About 2,000 peo­ple are killed by light­ning strikes every year. Flori­da
leads the US in deaths by light­ning, with about ten killed each year.
 
�       Mount Wash­ing­ton in New Hamp­shire holds the record for the fastest
record­ed wind gust on the land at 231 mph in 1934. It held the over­all
mark until high­er gusts off the coast of Bar­row Island, Aus­tralia were
record­ed in 1996.
 
�            Mete­o­rol­o­gists use many tools to pre­dict the weath­er, includ­ing
satel­lite tech­nol­o­gy. Doppler weath­er radar has been used since the
1960s, with weath­er radar net­works form­ing in the 1980s.
 
�       The Maya storm god was named Hura­can, which may be the ori­gin
of the word “Hur­ri­cane,” although some believe it was derived from
the name of a Taino god.
 
�       The Russ­ian research sta­tion, Vos­tok Sta­tion, in Antarc­ti­ca is the site
of the low­est record­ed tem­per­a­ture on Earth. On July 21, 1983, the
lone­ly sta­tion hit ‑128.6 °F.
 
�            Hurricanes/cyclones spin coun­ter­clock­wise in the north­ern
hemi­sphere, but cyclones in the south­ern hemi­sphere spin clock­wise.
This because in the south­ern hemi­sphere, winds trav­el­ing toward the
equa­tor will move east­ward, and winds trav­el­ing toward the South
Pole will curve west, which is known as the Cori­o­lis effect.
 
�       The largest piece of hail record­ed was found in Vivian, South Dako­ta
on July 23, 2010. It weighed near­ly two pounds and was eight inch­es
in diam­e­ter.
 
�            First pub­lished in 1818, the Farm­ers’ Almanac was one of the first
pub­li­ca­tions to make mete­o­ro­log­i­cal pre­dic­tions. Despite skep­tics, the
Almanac retains a loy­al fol­low­ing.
 
�       The Armistice Day Bliz­zard of 1940 left 154 peo­ple dead across the
Upper Mid­west, mak­ing it one of the worst snow­storms in Amer­i­can
his­to­ry.
 
�            Like a hur­ri­cane, a tor­na­do is a rapid­ly rotat­ing storm with a low-
pres­sure cen­ter. It also rotates clock­wise or coun­ter­clock­wise
depend­ing on which hemi­sphere it is locat­ed in.
 
�            The high­est record­ed tem­per­a­ture on Earth was 134 °F. It was
record­ed on July 10, 1913, at Fur­nace Creek, Cal­i­for­nia, in Death
Val­ley, on July 10, 1913.
 
�       The “Lit­tle Ice Age” refers to the cli­mat­ic peri­od after the Medieval
Warm Peri­od, from the 1500s through the 1800s when the Earth
cooled as much as 3.6 °F.
 
�       If you’ve ever hiked high in the Sier­ra Neva­da Moun­tains, you may
have noticed pink snow. It’s that col­or because of a type of algae
called chlamy­domonas nivalis that thrives in cold envi­ron­ments.
 
�            The US expe­ri­ences more tor­na­does than any oth­er coun­try, with
about 1,200 per year. With­in the US, more tor­na­does hap­pen in the
Plains states, which are known as “Tor­na­do Alley.”