Come Rain Or Shine: A Weather Miscellany

Description

Read on to discover...* The truth about upside-down rainbows. * The pioneers of meteorology - their instruments and inventions. * How to win a balloon race. * The largest raindrops ever recorded. * 'Watermelon snow', 'thundersnow' and 'weather bombs'. * The ten main types of cloud and the different features of lightning. The weather is a subject that the British simply cannot leave alone, and for good reason - it's likely that for more than half the year they will experience at least three seasons in one day, so there's always plenty to talk about. This charming miscellany, as wide-ranging and unpredictable as the weather itself, is filled with curious historical facts, amazing statistics and fascinating anecdotes that will keep you entertained come rain or shine!

Author description

Storm Dunlop is an author and translator whose books on astronomy and meteorology have been translated into 23 languages. His extensive published works include Collins Gem Weather, How to Identify Weather and Wild Guide Weather. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Meteorological Society and tutor at Chichester College of Arts and Sciences. He is based in West Sussex.