So Cold a Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories

by Bohnak Karl and Karl Bohnak

Weather History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Begining in 1600's to Present. A Survey of Modern Weather events in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with Oral interviews of eyewitnesses of many... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097781890X
• ISBN13: 9780977818907
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cold Sky Publishing
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic book!

This book is absolutely fantastic! Once I start reading it, its hard to put down. When I do put it down, I have the urge to start reading it again a few minutes later...but hate to finish it!!

Original and dramatic, with many illustrations

This original, profusely illustrated book is a must for anyone interested in the Upper Peninsula and its weather. Author Karl Bohnak has been weather forecaster at WLUC TV 6 in Marquette/Neguanee since 1988. His first book combines meterology and history in a fascinating, dramatic way. Weather has played SUCH an important role in U.P. history. How deep does the snow get, and where do the deer yard up? How long is the growing season, and the shipping season? How much food and fuel is needed for winter survival? Karl draws on treasures like shipwreck stories, hardships experienced by prospectors, landlookers, miners, and the detailed diaries of Father Frederic Baraga, the Snowshoe Priest. Karl loves snow and has been able to spend his professional career in an ideal spot for snow-lovers. He grew up in Milwaukee, an area of unreliable snow, and studied meterology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

The best book about UP Weather ever written

This is the quintessetial book about weather in the UP of Michigan. The combination of history, science, and fascinating stories makes this a book for every weather fan in and outside of Michigan.

yoopers at their finest

Wonderfully written. As as lifetime "yooper", I know what they mean by the saying "only in the U.P., if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes it will change". Great book Karl.

An incredible testimony to the endurance of Michigan's hardiest human inhabitants.

Written by weather forecaster Karl Bohnak, So Cold A Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories is a compilation of true tales of upper Michigan's extreme weather conditions, from pioneers who braved bone-chilling temperatures to settle the northern part of the state to modern snowstorms and heatwaves. Written in a straightforward narrative style and illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and artworks, So Cold A Sky is an enthralling chronicle of the eternal story of man versus nature. An incredible testimony to the endurance of Michigan's hardiest human inhabitants.