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The manual is intended as a ready reference for operational techniques of wind wave, swell, and breaker forecasting.
"During summer the interior of the United States and northern Mexico west of the Continental Divide experience frequent intrusions of moist tropical air. In the months of July and August the greatest northward flux occurs. June and September are transition months from spring to summer and summer to falI, respectively. During these months, particularly June, there is a predominance of rather dry air-mass conditions"--Introduction
"A flash flood is a flood in which the rapid rise in stream level and the resulting inundation follows the observable causative event by about four hours or less. For rain-caused flash floods meteorology is complex, and limited amounts of real-time data make timely forecasts of exact location very difficult. Lack of reports of flash-flood occurrences adds to the difficulty. Many occur that are never reported to the National Weather Service (NWS)"--Introduction.