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Jack Williams, USA Today. The definitive guide to American weather provides the latest information on computer forecasting, explanations on how events in space affect Earth's weather, reasons for our increasingly wild weather, coverage of recent hurricanes, and more. |
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| This compendium of climatological lore, scientific observation, and oddments is sure to spice up those inescapable weather-related conversations. One sidebar, for example, lists hurricanes so devastating that their names were forever retired, such as Inez, Camille, and Hugo. Another gives guidelines for measuring raindrops. Still another discusses time-honored but ultimately flawed folk methods of measuring the temperature, including the famous cricket-chirps-per-minute formula. Authors Ronald L. Wagner and Bill Adler Jr. also provide almanaclike information on weather patterns and information on ordering weather-related gear such as rain gauges and barometers. | |
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by David Ludlum. Interest in our nation's weather patterns is rising -- as witnessed in the popularity of the Weather Channel -- and this guide is the most popular reference to every type of weather system, cloud formation, and atmospheric phenomenon common to North America. The 378 dramatic photographs capture cloud types, precipitation, storms, twisters, and optical phenomena such as the Northern Lights. Essays with accompanying maps and illustrations discuss the earth's atmosphere, weather systems, cloud formation, and development of tornadoes and many other weather events. |
| by Michael Hodgson.
Straightforward advice for predicting and noticing shifts in weather patterns aimed directly at the novice who wants to enjoy a safe
journey in the wilderness. With this updated edition, you'll learn to understand how and why different types of weather occur, cloud
formations and what they have to tell you, variations in geography and how they affect the weather, and basic meteorological concepts for weather awareness. |
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