Partly Sunny: The Weather Junkie's Guide to Outsmarting the Weather - Softcover

Fields, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962655651 ISBN 13: 9780962655654

Publisher: Windsor Peak Press, 1994

Synopsis

Looks at the history of television weather forecasting, discusses the Weather Channel, and tells how to select weather instruments, download satellite weather pictures, and use weather software

About this title

From Booklist:

Weather junkies are found in agricultural areas, where their passion exerts, after all, an important economic influence, and in urban centers of commutation, where it is a matter for self-defense. Fields fields a fit volume for these fans of Doppler effects and barometric-pressure-readings-as-predictors-of-cataclys-mic-events. It begins with a brief history of TV weather forecasting and a list of the 15 best U.S. weatherpersons, then dives into what makes weather fascinating. Although Fields also lists the 10 best gifts to give a weather junkie, the most useful information for those uninitiated to weather obsessing is probably his detailed explanation of current forecasting technologies and methods and his listing of weather resources available on the burgeoning information superhighway system. Interesting even for weather agnostics, the book may prove a fine companion for those nights when the dreaded freezing drizzle forces you to curl up--in bed, on the couch, or in your car in a ditch--with a good book. Mike Tribby

About this edition

• Publisher: Windsor Peak Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0962655651
• ISBN 13: 9780962655654
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224