A lively, inspiring account of the pioneers who sought toaccurately predict the weather
Benjamin Franklin... James P. Espy... Cleveland Abbe... Carl-Gustaf Rossby... Jule G …

From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind
the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our …

The essential guide to the history, current trends, and the future of meteorology This
comprehensive review explores the evolution of the field of meteorology, from its infancy in …

Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry,“the
weather” is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the …

Although accounts of tornadoes occurred in ancient writings, few paid much attention to
nature's most violent windstorm until the United States Army Signal Corps's John Park Finley …

For most of history, humans have made every possible effort to accurately foretell the
weather, evolving from the use of guesswork, rule of thumb, and signs in the sky to the …

During the 19th century, while others were debating about the theory and morphology of
tornadoes, Finley set out to prove that tornadoes, like other weather phenomena, could be …

Tornadoes, nature's most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly
one thousand times yearly and have claimed eighteen thousand American lives since 1880 …

Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind
one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times--the use of mathematics in weather …

The Weather Companion An Album of Meteorological History, Science, Legend, and
Folklore Throughout history, as farmer, sailor, hunter, and artist, humans have watched and …