Weather: A Visual Guide

by Edward J. Hopkins, Richard Whitaker, Bruce Buckley, et al.

Book Overview

An introductory guide to understanding weather and its effect on our lives. It is human nature to try to understand, predict and control the weather that affects crops, wildlife and even one's mood.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552979571
• ISBN13: 9781552979570
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Weather book

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

Just OK

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.

Turbulent wake of an island

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.

Fantastic book for general readers.

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.

Good Mix

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.