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The secret world of weather : how to read signs in every cloud, breeze, hill, street, plant, animal, and dewdrop / Tristan Gooley ; illustrations by Neil Gower.

By: Gooley, Tristan [author.]Contributor(s): Gower, Neil [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The Experiment, 2021Description: 373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781615197545; 9781615191482; 1615197540Subject(s): Weather forecastingAdditional physical formats: Online version:: The secret world of weather
Contents:
Introduction -- Two worlds -- The secret laws -- The talk of the skies -- Who changed the air? -- How to feel the wind -- Dew and frost -- Rain -- A bloodhound in the woods -- Hail and snow -- Fog -- Cloud secrets -- Thirsting for signs: an interlude -- The local winds -- The trees -- Plants, fungi, and lichens -- The hoodoos: an interlude -- The city -- The coast -- The animals -- Storms -- The celestial and the sublime -- Our weather.
Summary: "A guide to uncovering the mysteries of weather using close observation-decoding the ever-shifting alchemy of heat, water, and air to understand how it shapes our cities, woods, and hills"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Two worlds -- The secret laws -- The talk of the skies -- Who changed the air? -- How to feel the wind -- Dew and frost -- Rain -- A bloodhound in the woods -- Hail and snow -- Fog -- Cloud secrets -- Thirsting for signs: an interlude -- The local winds -- The trees -- Plants, fungi, and lichens -- The hoodoos: an interlude -- The city -- The coast -- The animals -- Storms -- The celestial and the sublime -- Our weather.

"A guide to uncovering the mysteries of weather using close observation-decoding the ever-shifting alchemy of heat, water, and air to understand how it shapes our cities, woods, and hills"-- Provided by publisher.

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