Weather Watching (Collins Need to Know?)

Collins Weather Watching is your one-stop guide to understanding weather across the world

This user-friendly, authoritative resource includes full-color photographs, easy-to-follow guidance, and diagrams showing you everything you need to follow the weather. As our climate continues to change, more than ever before we need to understand how extreme weather affes the world around us. This praical introduory guide offers all the know-how you need.

Inside you will

Forecasting How winds and clouds are formed How clouds can help you predi the weather Information on extreme weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes

Patrick Hook has previously spent months aboard ships studying the weather all over the world. He is a direct descendant of the famous 17th century inventor and all-round genius Robert Hooke, a contemporary and rival of Sir Isaac Newton, who counted meteorological research and discoveries among his many and varied accomplishments. Hook holds a PhD in physics from the University of Exeter and as part of a related MBA he studied with members of the meteorological office.