The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future /

A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Peter, 1983-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2015]
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The weather experiment
  • Dawn
  • Seeing. Writing in the air ; Nature caught in the very act ; Rain, wind, and the wondrous cold
  • Morning
  • Contesting. Detectives ; Trembling air, whirling winds ; Liquid lightning
  • Midday
  • Experimenting. Steady eyes, delicate skies ; Beginnings ; Dangerous paths
  • Afternoon
  • Believing. Dazzling bright ; Endings ; Truth telling
  • Dusk
  • West winds
  • Stars in FitzRoy's meteorological galaxy.