The Weather Sourcebook: Your One-Stop Resource for Everything You Need to Know to Feed Your Weather Habit

Wagner, Ronald L.;Adler, Bill Jr.

ISBN 10: 0762700807 / ISBN 13: 9780762700806

Published by Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut, U.S.A., 1997

About this Item

Oversized 218pp including glossary and index Photos.

Seller Inventory # 65618

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Weather Sourcebook: Your One-Stop Resource for Everything You Need to Know to Feed Your Weather Habit
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762700807
• ISBN 13: 9780762700806
• Binding: Glossy Soft Cover
• Edition: Second Edition
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature
  • Science

About this title

Synopsis

Gathers weather-related information, explains meteorological terms, and provides information about weather software, books, videos, posters, and online services

Review

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.