Know Your Clouds (Old Pond Books) Learn How to Read the Skies and Identify Each Type of Cloud, Learn How Clouds are Formed, How They Indicate the Weather, the Optical Phenomena They Produce, and More - Softcover

Tim Harris

 
9781913618094: Know Your Clouds (Old Pond Books) Learn How to Read the Skies and Identify Each Type of Cloud, Learn How Clouds are Formed, How They Indicate the Weather, the Optical Phenomena They Produce, and More

Synopsis

Your handy guide to reading the skies!

  • How to identify each type of cloud
  • The processes at work to produce them
  • The significance they have for our weather
  • Optical phenomena produced by certain clouds

Can you read the skies? Clouds produce an ever-changing skyscape and a vital clue to predicting whether it's going to rain or shine.

With this handy 80-page cloud-spotting guide, you'll learn how to identify clouds types, how they form, how to read a changing sky, the processes that produce different types of clouds, how different cloud types indicate the weather, and the optical phenomena that is produced by certain types of clouds.

Learn the lost countryside art of cloud reading and understanding the most essential of nature's clues and signs, with Know Your Clouds!

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About the Author

Tim Harris has written books about nature and the environment for both children and adults, including the award-winning Migration Hotspots: The World's Best Bird Migration Sites. He lives on the edge of Epping Forest in London, England, and has been fascinated by all aspects of the natural world since a young age. After studying Norwegian glaciers at university, his quest for wildlife has seen him explore the giant dunes of the Namib Desert, climb the slopes of Popocatapetl in Mexico, camp in the Sumatran rainforest, and search the frozen Sea of Okhotsk for sea-eagles.

From the Back Cover

Can you read the skies? Clouds produce an ever-changing skyscape and a vital clue to predicting whether it's going to rain or shine. This handy little cloud-spotting guide explains:

  • How to identify each type of cloud
  • The processes at work to produce them
  • The significance they have for our weather
  • Optical phenomena produced by certain clouds

Learn the lost countryside art of cloud reading and understand the most essential of nature's clues and signs.

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