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Ever used a cricket as a thermometer? It's pretty easy, really: when it's 60 degrees F, crickets apparently chirp 72 times a minute. For every 4 chirps over that, add a degree; for every four under, subtract a degree. That's just one of the many bizarre facts that veteran science writer Patricia Barnes-Svarney and her naturalist husband Thomas Svarney managed to uncover, verify ("relatively speaking," in the case of the crickets), and report in their sweeping survey of the "power and weirdness" of weather. With more or less equal coverage of basic meteorological principles and the more showy, sensational side of weather, Skies of Fury serves as an entertaining and approachable primer on the subject for everybody from aspiring young scientists to Weather Channel-watching armchair meteorologists.

Beginning with a straightforward discussion of earth's "weather engine"--the influence of the sun, the patterns of convection cells, the interaction of winds, the importance of the water cycle--Skies of Fury proceeds to dissect and catalog every major meteorological phenomenon, from the different types of clouds and lightning strikes to F5 tornadoes and billion-dollar hurricanes. The authors pack a lot of facts into this relatively breezy (sorry) and readable book, leaving you well-armed to go out and scout the skies yourself. (And you'll even know precisely what those big red Hs and blue Ls mean on the Weather Channel.) --Paul Hughes

AUTHOR: Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E Svarney
CATEGORY: Book
MANUFACTURER: Touchstone
ISBN: 0684850001
TYPE: Meteorology, Weather, Applied Meteorology, Science, Science/Mathematics, Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology, Nature / Weather, Popular works
MEDIA: Paperback
# OF MEDIA: 1

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Wonderful -- Full of Information, yet Easy to Understand
This book has wonderful explanations of our weather. It is presented in very easily understood manner, yet doesn't talk down to you. Gives lots of weather tidbits and info. Totally enjoyable.

Interesting Mix of Information and Trivia
This book does a very good job at getting basic weather information out to the layperson. As a student majoring in Meteorology, I can also vouch for the fact that it will still hold the attention of those with more education on the subject. It also has many sidebars which relay interesting facts and tidbits about the wonders of weather. I recommend this book to anyone who has a love of Meteorology and wants to kow more.

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