The Weather Wizard’s Cloud Book: A Unique Way to Predict the Weather Accurately and Easily by Reading the Clouds
- ISBN13: 9780912697109
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This book provides weather information quickly and surely, because it focusesupon what is going on directly overhead–the actual clouds now on view in thesky, the actual sequences currently developing. 137 color, 19 black-and-whitephotographs.
OK book for newbies or beginners to this interesting hobby(uninteresting if in Michigan)
Rating: 3 / 5
If your into forcasting weather, or just want to know how to, this book is for you.
Rating: 5 / 5
Excellent book. Using this along with a couple others to get back into weather forcasting Thank you for an excellent book
Rating: 4 / 5
A very handy book for “instant” weather forcasting. Interesting to read and written with a bit of humor. The only shortcoming is the arrangment of the photographs of the different clouds, they are not in logical sequence.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this book in preparation for an advanced mariner’s meteorology course, and could not have made this comment without having first gained that higher level of knowledge.
This is a suberb book with two major flaws:
1) It sticks to the two-dimensional depiction of weather that is common to the average person. Although there are a couple of illustrations showing altitude, the author could easily have put in a few pages on the rotation of the earth, the 500 mb level, and how weather on the surface cannot be understood without underestanding what is happening at the 18,000 level. As my instructor put it, the high-level troughs are the chicken that hatches the surface level (scrambled) egg.
2) It provides the pictures of the clouds, but missed the key chance to break down the names into the original latin meanings, to create a matrix of high (Cirro), medium (alto), and low (strato), with substantive meaning including layer (stratus), curly (cirrus), stacked in a vertical heap (cumulo-cumulus), and delivering rain (nimbus).
Add this little matrix above, and read “Mariner’s Guide to the 500-Millibar Chart” by Joe Stenkiewicz and Lee Chesneau, and Google for to find his web site, and you’ll have all you need to move to the better three-dimensional interactive viewing of weather and weather charts.
I also recommend Understanding Weatherfax
Rating: 4 / 5