Whether you’re an adventurer who enjoys wild weather, a traveller seeking climate details for Madagascar or Mumbai, or simply curious about those charts on the evening news, The Rough Guide to Weather is precisely what you need. From world climates and weather science to tips on how to read the sky and make sense of a forecast. Illustrated throughout with photographs and climate charts and useful links to hundreds of Internet resources for every continent, this guide is will help you stay a head of the storm.
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Robert Henson is a meteorologist and author of The Rough Guide to Climate Change.
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Robert Henson is a science journalist and meteorologist based in Boulder, Colorado, where he works as a writer and editor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His books include "The Rough Guide to Climate Change," which was shortlisted for the 2007 UK Royal Society Prize for Science Books, as well as "The Rough Guide to Weather" and "Weather on the Air: A History of Broadcast Meteorology," published in 2010 by the American Meteorological Society. Henson is a contributing editor of Weatherwise magazine and a frequent guest blogger for Capital Weather Gang. His interests include photography, bicycling, and popular culture.
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This book was a real disappointment. I very much enjoyed the Rough Guide to Climate Change, and I fully expected this book to be just as well written.
I suppose the book works for some intended audience: those afraid of science and with no patience for trying to figure things out. It presents only a very superficial overview of the why and wherefore of weather, glossing over things like why the jet stream is where it is and flows as it does, or the significance of say a 500mb contour chart, or even something as basic as the relationship between fronts and low pressure centers. We get brief mentions of such things in the context of a very cursory summary of the science behind the weather. The book does have a strength though. The second half of the book is a survey of weather by geographic region. This part of the book does provide some good insights into the weather patterns that affect a given region. It isn't just a compendium of average temperatures and such. So for the traveler who wants a brief introduction to weather science and some good descriptions of regional weather trends, this is probably a good resource. It isn't really a very good introduction to meteorology though.
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This book is up to date, well written and thorough, one of the best books I have ever read on weather, M. R.
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