Severe Weather Flying (AOPA/McGraw-Hill series in general aviation)

Among the topics covered in clear detail are:

The Ups and Downs of Air: showing that fronts, low pressure areas, mountains and jet streams really do only one thing - lift air.

Stability: Explaining the relationship of atmospheric stability to observed weather.

Air-Mass Thunderstorms: Describes what they are, how to avoid them and how (if you must) to fly through them.

Steady-State Thunderstorms: Presents all you need to know about these fearsome tornado-spawning thunderstorms.

Lightning: The dangers to airplanes, and which fuels and systems are most valuable (and vulnerable).

Icing: The hows and whys of structural icing, with icing avoidance and other aspects of this flight-crippling condition.

Nocturnal Thunderstorms: Takes the mystery our of the cause and effect of these beautiful killers.

Downburst: Discusses the downdraft-shear phenomena which caused the 1975 Eastern airlines crash at JFK.