Customer Reviews

Weather: A Visual Guide (Visual Guides)

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Despite the very bad reviews in here, I decided to go to Barnes and

Noble, took a look at the book, and bought it in there. After moving to Seattle, I wondered why the weather in Northwestern America might be like this, and Katrina desaster was also a motivation for me to want to understand how weather works. And I have no desire to try to understand it in expert level (nor do I have time to do so).

First of all, this book is not for weather majors or experts.

this book is for general readers who don't have a clue about how weather works but want to know. For that purpuse, I haven't found any better book than this. I'm not a geologist or weather expert. So, I can't say how accurate this book is. However this book explains things so well with a lot of beautiful pictures. Saying that this book doesn't have any content, all misinformation, etc. is simply over-exaggerating minor mistakes that any books might have. Go to the bookstore and see it yourself. You will love this book.

Even though you don't like the content for any reason, the beautiful pictures themselves will worth the money. However, there is no reason why casual readers who want to know about whether would not like the contents of this book. Don't let skeptic's over-exaggerated nitpicking discourage your owning this wonderful book.

This is one of the books from which you can learn science without studying, and with pleasure. And you don't even need to have any science background to read this book. All you need is curiosity. As a reader, I thank authors to create this wonderful book.

This is a good mix. It may only be four stars if you are looking for particularly things alone (e.g., educational, photos, etc.). However, as a combination, it does a very good job and one that I will keep. Some of the simple things, like the cloud charts, make it much easier for the novice and don't cloud the issue like more complicated books.

Wow, it has really been a long time since I've seen a book this awful. First though, let me say the book does contain a nice collection of pretty pictures. That's about all its got going for it.

First off, the book has no actual content. Every two pages is spread of pictures with a small paragraph loosely relating to a supposed topic. The pictures don't really relate, however. So basically, you're not going to learn anything about weather from the text.

Fine, it is a "visual" guide. There is a major fundamental flaw here as well. The captions of the photos are laced with errors, misinformation, misleading statements and demonstrate an apalling level of cluelessness on the part of the authors/editors. It is very clear someone went trolling through the stock photo agencies and grabbed some "weather related" photos and then more or less made up captions for them.

I have only a limited background in the topics covered, but just in thumbing through I found numerous errors including obviously incorrect dates, geographic errors and claims that images were of phenomona that they clearly don't represent. Worse still, a wide varity of images are also altered with no indication that they are artists renderings or photo adaptations.

In summary, pure fluff, minimal content, and most of the content that does exist is flat out wrong, either through neglect, ineptitude or plain fabrication.

Flip through it in the library or bookstore but otherwise don't waste your money or encourage future publication of this low-rate psuedo-science garbage.

Weather is one of the major homes of chaos theory.

Fractals are mathematical equations that give beautiful

pattern but also appear as clouds and turbulent natural events.

The turbulent wake of an island shot from the air is very like

patterns seen in fractal Julia sets.

As a coffee table book in the time of global warming

and climate change this book is a very good way for people to see what weather is and how it becomes climate as an overall pattern in nature.

Very informative. Lots of wonderful photos. Excellent price. May order another for a gift.Nice to have a hard copy.

This book is very similar to every other meteorology book. I was most disappointed in the lack of current photographs and weather information. Most of the information was older and stuff that I've seen in other books. I also wasn't expecting so much of the book to be dedicated to environmental concerns/climate change. It's just ok.

This book is full of absolutely stunning photography.

The author fails Geography 101. In the caption of a photo of a Southern California wildfire, he describes the location as Simi Valley, California, near Yosemite National Park. Well, yes, they're in the same, very large state, but near? Not by my definition - they're a 6-7 hour drive apart. An error that egregious makes me question the text credibility throughout.