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The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA's Weather Paperback – July 14, 1997
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- Reading age1 year and up
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.57 x 10.8 inches
- PublisherVintage
- Publication dateJuly 14, 1997
- ISBN-100679776656
- ISBN-13978-0679776659
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- Publisher : Vintage; Subsequent edition (July 14, 1997)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0679776656
- ISBN-13 : 978-0679776659
- Reading age : 1 year and up
- Item Weight : 1.7 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.57 x 10.8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #458,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #195 in Rivers in Earth Science
- #240 in Weather (Books)
- #395 in Climatology
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About the author
The "AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather" is Jack Williams' sixth book.
He was the founding editor of the USA TODAY weather page in 1982 and took on additional duties as online weather editor when USATODAY.com was established in 1995. He retired from USA TODAY in 2005 and became the Coordinator of Public Outreach for the American Meteorological Society.
He wrote the "AMS Weather Book" while working for the AMS. He is now a freelance science writer, which includes writing the monthly "The Weather Never Sleeps" for Flight Training Magazine.
Williams' first book was the "USA TODAY Weather Book" with two editions, the first in 1991 and second in 1996.
His other books are: "The USA TODAY Weather Almanac" in 1993, co-author of "Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth" in 2001, with Dr. Bob Sheets, retired director of the National Hurricane Center, "The Complete Idiots Guide to the Arctic and Antarctic," in 2003, and co-author with Stephen Leatherman of "Hurricanes: Causes, Effects, and the Future
in 2008.
The AMS awarded Williams its "Louis J. Battan Author's Award" for the "Weather Book" in January 1994, and Williams and Sheets the same award in 2004 for "Hurricane Watch."
Williams became fascinated with weather in the late 1970s when he earned a private pilots license. At the time, he was a copy editor at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. He took courses in meteorology at the State University of New York College at Brockport, and began writing a weekly weather column for the Democrat and Chronicle, which is owned by Gannett Corp., Inc.
When Gannett decided in 1981 to look into publishing a new national newspaper to be known as USA TODAY, Williams was assigned to work with the editors and artists designing the new national newspaper. When the company decided to publish the paper in early 1982 Williams moved to the Washington, D.C. area as a member of the paper's founding staff.
At USA TODAY Williams reported on atmospheric and other sciences, incuding polar science beginning in 1997 when the National Science Foundation selected him to travel to Greenland to report from a research camp on the Ice Sheet. In 1999 he reported from Antarctica, where he became a pioneer blogger from the South Pole and other parts of Antarctica with his daily "trip diary" reports for USATODAY.com. Between 1999 and 2004 Williams made three more reporting trips to Greenland's Ice Sheet, and a research icebreaker sailing the Arctic Ocean. He also reported from flights into hurricanes aboard National Oceanic Administration WP-3 airplanes.
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Customers find the book excellent for learning about weather. They appreciate the illustrations that make difficult concepts easy to understand. Readers also appreciate the good explanations and great graphics.
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Customers find the book excellent for learning about weather. They say it's incredibly full of good information and provides a wonderful introduction to understanding the weather for laymen. Readers also mention it brings the weather alive.
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"An excellent book to learn about weather. An excellent learning tool. Pictorial based." Read more
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Customers find the book easy to understand. They appreciate the illustrations and good explanations. Readers also mention the reading is not too difficult or simplistic. In addition, they say the book is well organized and broken down step-by-step for every subject.
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The clearly explained text coupled with the expertly illustrated and detailed diagrams make this unique book invaluable to anyone interested in learning more about the Weather. I am a visual learner and for me this book makes the intricate components of weather systems jump right off the page and into my head! It is SO much more fun than reading chapter after chapter explaining how things work...this book Shows you with vivid examples! This book is a Must Have and could easily be useful to a school child, a college student, a teacher, or even a novice student of the weather like me.
Pros:
- Easy to understand presentation of material.
- Lots of color pictures.
- Wide selection of information.
Cons:
- I don't like how the book has inserts that break up the reading of the main material.
- I don't like how pictures are occasionally referenced by text multiple pages away.
- I skip the multi-page inserts on people, it is not weather information, and not interesting to me.
The book is cheap, and does do a good job of explaining quite a bit about weather. If you want an easy to understand presentation of material with basic explanations and lots of pictures this book is good.
I was hoping more for a meat and potatoes text book style approach to learning weather.
Okay book, but not what I was looking for.