Weather category: 468 books
Meteorology
Cool Women Who Weather Storms
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Does the weather fascinate you? Thunderstorms, tornados, hurricanes, and snowstorms are just some of the weather events that affect people’s everyday lives. Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, people have been fascinated with weather phenomena and how they relate to human activities, such as sailing...
The Extreme Weather Survival Manual
214 Tips for Surviving Nature's Worst
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Extreme weather has the ability to leave us devastated, but with the easy-to-follow Extreme Weather Survival Manual you’ll be ready for anything Mother Nature throws at you. Dennis Mersereau and the editors of Outdoor Life magazine offer their life saving advice to help you survive blizzards, hurricanes,...
Weather Shamanism
Harmonizing Our Connection with the Elements
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
Creating an alliance and working partnership with the spirits of weather to restore well-being and harmony to Earth and ourselves
• Reveals that, intentionally or not, we affect the weather not only through our actions but also through our thoughts and emotions
• Explains shamanic...
Weather in Texas
The Essential Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Only in Texas could a snowstorm pelt the Panhandle at the very moment abrasive dust is scouring the Permian Basin while searing heat is wilting the Winter Garden region in the south. The state's large size and central location within North America subject it to a great variety of weather occurrences....
by Storm Dunlop
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A compact introduction to observing, predicting, and understanding the weather Note: this ebook for black and white devices was originally created and printed in colour. For this reason, a small number of the illustrations will be difficult to read on a black and white device. This handy little guide...
Setting Up a Weather Station and Understanding the Weather
A Guide for the Aamateur Meteorologist
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This fascinating and well-illustrated book, which is packed with valuable information and advice, provides a complete guide to observing, recording and understanding the weather and to setting up an amateur weather station. As the author explains, the advent of relatively modern electronic weather...
Extraordinary Weather
Wonders of the Atmosphere from Dust Storms to Lightning Strikes
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2012
An incredible collection of truly breathtaking weather phenomena. Produced in association with the Met Office, the world's premier weather forecasting bureau, Extraordinary Weather unearths astonishing photographs and compelling satellite imagery that reveals the otherworldly, wayward and often ambiguous...
Weather 101
From Doppler Radar and Long-Range Forecasts to the Polar Vortex and Climate Change, Everything You Need to Know about the Study of Weather
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Learn the science behind weather and weather prediction in this clear and straightforward new guide.
Weather is everywhere, and while it’s typically not thought about most of the time, it can get everyone’s attention in an instant—whether it’s the swirling destruction of a tornado,...
Weather Wise
Reading Weather Signs
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Weather Wise is a highly practical, lively and very accessible guide to weather phenomena for anyone who enjoys the outdoors. Suitable for sailors, walkers, climbers, skiers, fishermen, golfers and holidaymakers, it explains how forthcoming weather will affect them, as well as how to predict what...
And Now, The Weather...
A celebration of our national obsession
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Along with the fine art of queuing and proper tea, talking about the weather is the essence of Britishness. We’re all a little bit obsessed by it. Will it snow this Christmas? Was this year really the warmest on record? And where on earth did ‘raining cats and dogs’ come from?
According...
by Dag Pike
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
This is a book about practical weather forecasting, and it starts where most other books finish. Weather forecasts give you a lot of information about the weather to come but they often leave out a lot of the detail, and the timing of changes can also be vague. In this book, Dag Pike shows how to...
by Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Charles L. Wax, Michael E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From Hurricane Katrina to the Mississippi River floods of 1927 and 2011, and from a high temperature of 115 degrees Fahrenheit to a low of -19, Mississippi has seen its share of weather extremes. In fact, Mississippi's rainfall can be described in terms of "feast or famine." Even during the feast...
by Elizabeth Austin, Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Weather is an inescapable part of our daily lives, from the nuances of air travel to the future of climate change. Our past, present, and future are intimately rooted in weather and climate.
Weather, water, and climate. How we feel, how productive we are, even our sheer existence, depends on...
The Weather Companion
An Album of Meteorological History, Science, and Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
The Weather Companion An Album of Meteorological History, Science, Legend, and Folklore Throughout history, as farmer, sailor, hunter, and artist, humans have watched and worried about the weather. We have devised ways to observe it, to predict it, to protect ourselves from it, to take advantage of...