Weather category: 468 books
Instant Weather Forecasting
You Can Predict the Weather
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 clear colour photographs of cloud formations and their accompanying explanatory text enables the reader to read the sky, pick up the clues, and...
Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth
Weather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Utah has long claimed to have the greatest snow on Earth—the state itself has even trademarked the phrase. In Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Jim Steenburgh investigates Wasatch weather, exposing the myths, explaining the reality, and revealing how and why Utah’s powder lives up to its...
Thunder & Lightning
Weather Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Note: This eBook file contains many richly detailed full-color images and makes use of unconventional page layouts. Because of this, readers will be required to zoom in on each page to read the text and see the finer detail of the artwork. [It has not been optimized for devices that display only in...
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Nature-loving and crafty 3-5 year olds will love finding out all about weather in this charming crafty science book.
From sun and snow, to thunder and lightning, children will find out what goes on up in the sky, and why. They'll discover simple answers to difficult questions - What makes a...
Eyewonder: Weather
Open Your Eyes to a World of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The weird and wonderful weather of our planet is brought to life in Eye Wonder: Weather. This updated and revised edition is the perfect introduction to the exciting world of weather, from rain, sun, and wind to hurricanes, snow storms, and twisters, and also gives the facts about climate change,...
18 Miles
The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
“With wit and a humbling sense of wonder, this is a book that can be shared and appreciated by a wide audience who now religiously check their phones for daily forecasts.” — Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“This terrific, accessible, and exciting read helps us to better understand...
The Ultimate Severe Weather Safety Guide
What You Need to Know to Stay Safe
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
This guide is to teach others how to protect themselves. The author, Martin Lisius is a veteran storm chaser, producer, director and cinematographer. He is sometimes called "The Storm Whisperer" because of his intimate knowledge of severe weather. This severe weather guide will help you prepare, monitor...
The Weather Experiment
The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible
By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable...
National Geographic Extreme Weather Survival Guide
Understand, Prepare, Survive, Recover
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tornadoes--weather is becoming extreme, and this book tells you how to plan ahead and prepare, respond to emergencies, and survive the worst-case scenarios. From the risks of building on changing coastlines to the safety kit you should have packed up at home, from the...
by Ken Ring
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
**How you can forecast the weather by the moon.**Weather forecasting by the moon has been practised for thousands of years and almanacs were once a common feature of rural life, foretelling storms, floods, and droughts. Ken Ring's mathematical theory that revives the old idea about the moon influencing...
Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals)
A Book of Essays and Other Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1988, this is a reissue of a groundbreaking collection of essays written by Hubert Lamb, one of the world’s foremost experts on weather and climate and a uniquely authoritative voice in the history of climatology. Hubert Lamb is able to provide a mature assessment of the effect...
by Kevin Hile
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Fully updated with the latest advances in meteorology as well as an additional section on climate change, this comprehensive reference addresses all aspects of weather in an accessible questionandanswer format. All the basic elements of weather are discussed, as are all types of weather phenomena...
Weather Disasters
How to Prepare For and Survive Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Blizzards, and Other Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Floods. Blizzards. Landslides. Earthquakes. Tornadoes. Hurricanes. Severe weather happens every day across the globe. We see and hear of the devastating consequences whenever we tune into the evening news: property ravaged, communities destroyed, and lives lost. But although these events are unstoppable,...
by Rebecca Rowell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Trying to breeze through weather and climate facts just might cause a brain freeze! You're showered with details about extreme temperatures (Earth's record high is 134°F and record low is -129°F), crazy heights (our atmosphere extends 6,200 miles above Earth), and even huger mysteries (how predictions...