Imagine a world without the weather forecast. Is it likely to be warm and sunny for the fete at the weekend? Will Thursday be a good day to make that ferry crossing, or would Friday be better? We might scorn it and deride it, but we still consult the men - and women - from the Met Office, rather than a piece of soggy seaweed, before deciding whether to set out with a brolly in the morning. More than one hundred and fifty years the best forecast available was the weather glass with its imprecise predictions of 'Fair' or 'Changeable'. Before that, man consulted the animals in the fields, the birds in the sky, clouds, insects, the moon - even astrologers, oracles and the ancient gods. The tale of the emergence of forecasting from mythology, through the weather glass and into meteorology is a story fraught with conflict between scientists and seers. It involves the riding of storms; the scouring of the wide oceans in small sailing ships and soaring to the sky in balloons. This book traces the story of man's attempts to foretell the coming weather, and shows how weather prediction emerged from the realms of the seer and charlatan into credible acceptability. Sales Points/Key Content include: new paperback edition; covers the pioneers of the weather forecast; 2004 is the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Met office; 2004 is also the 50th anniversary of the first TV weather forecast; and foreward by Michael Fish.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
T.H.E. Hi-Story Press LTD
ISBN-13
9780750932479
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91949567
Product Key Features
Book Title
Storm Warning: the Origins of the Weather Forecast
Author
Pauline Halford
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Weather
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
127mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Pauline Halford
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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