Del Norte Public Library

"Gillen D'Arcy Wood traces Tambora's full global and historical reach: how the volcano's three-year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in China, set the stage for Ireland's Great Famine, and plunged the United States into its first economic depression. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein's monster, inspired by Tambora's terrifying storms, embodied the fears and misery of global humanity during this...

"We all reply on the Sun and rain to keep us alive. However the most extreme storms can destroy whole cities. From gentle showers to violent hurricanes, this book explores the creative and destructive power of Earth's weather"--Back cover.

With a scientist's eye for detail and a poet's ear for language, DeBlieu examines one of nature's most elemental forces. From a light breeze cooling a hot brew to a gale that blows apart buildings, no other natural phenomenon affects people as directly as wind.

"Discover the world's weather--from heat waves and droughts to blizzards and floods"--Cover. Includes discussion of why the climate may change in the future.

Photographs and text depict different aspects of weather and how it is forecast.

At a time when extreme weather is becoming more and more common, get clued up on the science behind it and the ways in which it s changing. Learn about all kinds of weather and marvel at how powerful it can be. Discover what the weather was like when the Earth was born and what it could be like in the future. Find out how weather is predicted and the inventions that harness its power.

Presents an unabridged republication of the 1931 text that features over two thousand photomicrographs of snow flakes, frost, glaze, dew, sleet, and soft hail; and includes text that discusses the technique of photographing snow crystals, and other related topics.