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Storm Warning: The Origins of the Weather Forecast By Pauline Ha
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- “Slight Creasing To Spine and Wear To Edges Of Pages”
- UPC
- 9780750932479
- ISBN
- 9780750932479
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- 9780750932479
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Storm Warning: the Origins of the Weather Forecast
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Topic
- Weather
- Item Width
- 127mm
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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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.
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The History Press Ltd
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9780750932479
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Book Title
Storm Warning: the Origins of the Weather Forecast
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Weather
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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198mm
Item Width
127mm
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United Kingdom
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