[PDF] Weather Lore eBook

Author : Tristan Gooley
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1615191550

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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

Author : Richard Inwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1108077625

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Published in 1893, this is the second edition of an entertaining and fascinating collection of proverbs, rhymes and sayings about the weather.

Author : Edward F. Dolan
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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Discusses the season, clouds, rain, rainbows, thunder, and lightning, and evaluates the validity of folklore concerning the weather.

Author : Leslie Alan Horvitz Staff
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2007-08
Category : Weather
ISBN : 9781845660932

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The author has extracted the science from the hearsay in hundreds of weather-related aphorisms and facts from around the world, from blood rain in ancient Rome to hungry polar bears in a rapidly warming Arctic.

Author : Carole Garbuny Vogel
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 076131900X

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Native American tales are set against scientific facts to explain how thunder, tornadoes, sunlight, rainbows, and other weather phenomena come into existence.

Author : Cindy Day
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1771084308

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Discover the meaning behind 80 weather-related sayings from one of Canada’s top meteorologists. On Cindy Day’s grandmother’s farm, the weather wasn’t predicted with a computer or official forecast but by accumulated wisdom and careful observation. Cindy’s grandma was a constant prognosticator, making predictions about the weather that more often than not, proved correct! Grandma Says is a collection of 80 weather-related sayings that Cindy recalls from her grandmother. Now CTV Atlantic’s meteorologist, Cindy explains the science behind this traditional weather lore, and over 40 accent illustrations complement the text.

Author : Bernard Mergen
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :

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A kaleidoscopic book that illuminates our obsession with weather--as both physical reality and evocative metaphor--focusing on the ways in which it is perceived, feared, embraced, managed, and even marketed.

Author : Joseph M. Moran
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299171841

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The land that is now called Wisconsin has a place in weather history. Its climate has ranged from tropical to polar over hundreds of millions of years--and even today, that's the seeming difference between July and January here. And Wisconsinites have played key roles in advancing the science of meterology and climatology: Increase Lapham helped found the National Weather Service in the nineteenth century; Eric Miller was the first to broadcast regular weather reports on the radio in the 1920s; Verner Suomi pioneered tracking weather by satellite; and Reid Bryson has been a leader in studying global climate change. Wisconsin's Weather and Climate is written for weather buffs, teachers, students, outdoor enthusiasts, and those working in fields, lakes, and forests for whom the weather is a daily force to be reckoned with. It examines the physical features of Wisconsin that shape the state's climate--topography, mid-latitude location, and proximity to Lakes Superior and Michigan--and meteorological phenomena that affect climate, such as atmospheric circulation and air mass frequency. Authors Joseph M. Moran and Edward J. Hopkins trace the evolution of methods of weather observation and forecasting that are so important for agriculture and Great Lakes commerce, and they explain how Wisconsin scientists use weather balloons, radar, and satellites to improve forecasting and track climate changes. They take readers through the seasonal changes in weather in Wisconsin and give an overview of what past climate changes might tell us about the future. Appendices provide climatic data for Wisconsin, including extremes of temperature, snowfall, and precipitation at selected stations in the state. The authors also list sources for further information. Vignettes throughout the book provide fascinating weather lore: o Why there are cacti in Wisconsin o The famous Green Bay Packers-Dallas Cowboys "Ice Bowl" game of 1967 o The Army Signal Corps' ban on the word tornado o Advances in snow-making technology o The decline of the Great Lakes ice industry