Covering every type of weather, cloud formation and atmospheric phenomenon, this is a comprehensive guide to observing and forecasting the weather. Photographs capture cloud types, precipitation, storms and optical phenomena. A special section includes images of historic weather occurrences.

Weather

Science & Math

Ludlum, David McWilliams

Environment

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The Country Journal New England Weather Book

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Describes the weather that greeted early American colonists, and recounts how weather affected battles, election days, inaugurations, sports, and aviation throughout U.S. history

The Weather Factor

Houghton/Mifflin

The American Weather Book

A month-by-month look at the American climate explains the causes of hurricanes, tornadoes, fog, ice storms, blizzards, heat waves, floods, and other weather-related phenomena

From the colonists' first encounter with the American climate to the launch of the first weather satellite in space, weather has influenced battles, wars, elections, sports events, balloon launches, airship flights, and many other history-making events. Want to know what part the weather played in ending the Siege in Yorktown? Why President Harrison caught his fatal cold on Inauguration Day? Which was the worst-ever Saturday for football all across the country? David Ludlum, America's acknowledged dean of weather history, answers these questions and describes many more historical weather events and their consequences.

Earth Sciences

American Meteorological Society

The Audubon Society field guide to North American weather

Distributed by Random House

Excerpt from the Foreword: The purpose of this work is to set down in chronological order, as far as available historical sources permit, the meteorological situations attending the occurence of hurricanes prior to 1870 which have either closely approached or actually crossed the Atlantic and Gulf coastlines of the present United States...In compiling and arranging the account of individual hurricanes, an effort has been made to present all significant meteorological data available. These have been set down, often at length and with full quotation, with a view of serving as a strting place for the local historical interested in reconstructing the story of the weather past of his own locality or region.

Early American Hurricanes 1492-1870

Amer Meteorological Society

Classic memoir of the hardship, survival of winters in America 1821-1870.

Early American Winters II 1821-1870 (History of American Weather)

Excerpt from the Foreword: The purpose of this work is twofold: (1) to set down in chronological order and in proper geographical setting the meteorological characteristics of all reported storms of the tornado classification which have occurred within the present United States prior to 1870, and (2) to describe the intellectual effort made by early American scientists in analyzing and in attempting to understand the nature of the tornado and related local severe storms.

Early American Tornadoes 1586-1870

History

Americas

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Weather

The Country Journal New England Weather Book

The Weather Factor

The American Weather Book

The Weather Factor

The Audubon Society field guide to North American weather

Early American Hurricanes 1492-1870

Early American Winters II 1821-1870 (History of American Weather)

Early American Tornadoes 1586-1870

The Weather Factor