Mobile Weather Page: Self-Education

Based on the diaries of Isaac Monroe Cline, the head of the Galveston Weather Station. The book also includes a modern investigation seeking to understand how no one noticed what became the greatest hurricane with the most damage of all time.

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Includes facts weather from all parts of the globe.

Are you planning a trip or vacation outside North America? Need practical weather and climate information in advance? Then, The Cambridge Guide to the Weather should be on top of your list of things to buy before you go. Invaluable for planning trips around the world, with its handy country-by-country climate data and statistics, along with in-depth explanations of global weather patterns, this remarkable resource offers helpful guidance and handy tips for measuring and recording the weather as well as for interpreting weather signs. In addition, Ross Reynolds gives a detailed, factual, and balanced account of the implications of environmental issues currently in the headlines, such as global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer, as well as the effects of El Niño and other phenomena on world weather patterns. Packed full of color photographs and satellite images, the text is also illustrated with specially commissioned artwork, maps, charts, and graphs. The Cambridge Guide to the Weather is a must-have purchase not only for travelers but indeed for anyone who enjoys the outdoors.