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The Weather Of The Pacific Northwest (2008)

by Cliff Mass(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0295988479 (ISBN13: 9780295988474)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

University of Washington Press

review 1: Cliff Mass explains in elegant layman's language the facts of Pacific Northwest weather patterns. Now I can see the challenges and realities of trying to predict the unpredictable. In many instances, PNW weather prediction is akin to a 'blind man'(lack of adequate radar coverage) trying to predict and describe the exact color of an vain woman's business attire for next Monday to a 'deaf' person (a TV viewer who flunked statistics) in short paragraphed sound bites....
review 2: Cliff Mass is the go-to guy for weather in this region; I've been reading and enjoying his blog for a while. This book is an amazing compilation of just about everything weather in the Pacific NW. Learned lots and lots about how our geology affects the weather, as well as some good basic ... moremeteorology, the physics of clouds, etc. Has a great chapter on understanding what you see in the sky, and doing some amateur prediction of your own. Fascinating history, too, with lots of the disaster storm stuff that's just crazy to read; the book is new enough that it even has the windstorms of '06 and the flooding of '07, but also includes amazing weather events all the way back into the 19th century.Oh, and plenty of beautiful/weird pictures and helpful graphics.A bit dense in places, but overall fantastic. I want a copy of my own!edit: received as Christmas gift from Mom. (2011?) less

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