Whether you’re an adventurer who enjoys wild weather, a traveller seeking climate details for Madagascar or Mumbai, or simply curious about those charts on the evening news, The Rough Guide to Weather is precisely what you need. From world climates and weather science to tips on how to read the sky and make sense of a forecast. Illustrated throughout with photographs and climate charts and useful links to hundreds of Internet resources for every continent, this guide is will help you stay a head of the storm.
Author(s): Robert Henson
Series: Rough Guide Reference
Edition: 2
Publisher: Rough Guides
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 432
Contents
......Page 7
Introduction
......Page 11
1. The ingredients
......Page 21
What's weather anyway?
......Page 22
Welcome to our atmosphere
......Page 29
Layers of the atmosphere
......Page 33
The Sun and Earth
......Page 37
Where does the wind go?
......Page 43
Taking the weather's pulse
......Page 50
Sun, sky and colour: the optics of weather
......Page 57
Climate zones
......Page 63
2. The wild stuff
......Page 71
Rain
......Page 72
Snow
......Page 76
Freezing rain and sleet
......Page 81
Fog......Page 85
Thunderstorms
......Page 89
Hail
......Page 94
Tornadoes
......Page 99
Hurricanes and tropical cyclones
......Page 104
Coastal storms
......Page 112
Other windstorms
......Page 116
Heat waves and cold waves
......Page 122
Floods
......Page 126
Drought
......Page 130
El Niño and La Niña......Page 134
3. Forecasts and how to read them
......Page 139
Getting the word out
......Page 140
Computer models
......Page 148
Reading between the lines
......Page 156
Making your own forecast
......Page 164
4. A primer on climate change
......Page 169
The basics
......Page 170
The downs and ups of global warming
......Page 175
Wild cards
......Page 179
The hole in the ozone and what we're doing about it
......Page 183
5. Weather around the world
......Page 189
How to use the city climate charts
......Page 190
6. Weather on other planets
......Page 391
Inside the inner planets
......Page 392
Gas giants and icy moons
......Page 394
7. Resources
......Page 397
Books
......Page 398
Websites
......Page 405
Special interest Websites
......Page 409
Weather agencies around the world
......Page 411
Weather and health
......Page 416
Intensity scales
......Page 423
Glossary
......Page 428
Index
......Page 436
