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The Weather of Britain
Robin Stirling
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Description for The Weather of Britain
Paperback. It is no accident that the weather is a perpetual topic of conversation in Britain, for its range of extreme conditions is quite unusual. This work considers such phenomena, assessing their significance in relation to average conditions both locally and nationally. Num Pages: 318 pages, 44 halftone ill.,149 line ill.,100 maps, 49 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 176 x 20. Weight in Grams: 840.
It is no accident that the weather is a perpetual topic of conversation in Britain. For its range of extreme conditions our climate is quite unusual. Winds of over 130 mph (1976), arctic conditions like those in early 1963 and snowstorms producing 6 feet of undrifted snow in 15 hours (1929), fogs in which you cannot see your own feet (1952), protracted droughts as in 1975-6 and 1995-7 and heatwaves with temperatures reaching 100 F (1868), hailstorms showering down lb hailstones (1925), ice-storms so severe that birds fell to the ground in mid flight, weighed down by coats of ice (1940), and deluges releasing 11 inches of rain in 24 hours (1955) -- Robin Stirling tells us of these and many other equally remarkable phenomena, assessing their significance in relation to average conditions both locally and nationally, and putting all the facts into perspective. A mine of information, The Weather of Britain has proved absorbing for all those with a general interest in the subject and valuable for people whose jobs and even lives depend on having a detailed and accurate knowledge of Britain's weather. It is now appearing in paperback for the first time in this second, extensively revised and completely updated edition
Product Details
Publisher
Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900357067
SKU
V9781900357067
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-24
About Robin Stirling
A professional geographer and teacher, Robin Stirling was well known for his meteorological researches, in which he was active throughout his life. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Meteorological Society, and was also the author of Modern Suggestive Geographies, Part II, The World (Wheaton).
Reviews for The Weather of Britain
On the second edition: '...the citizen needs no other volume to possess an authoritative account of every aspect of Britain's weather, past, present and future. I can think of no topic in meteorology which he has not covered happily and well.' Ian McCaskill in his foreword to the new edition 'This book deserves to be a success, and I can unhesitatingly recommend it to all readers of this magazine.' Journal of Meteorology '...the bible of weather lore...' Michael Hanlon in the Independent 'Robin Stirling offers a huge banquet to feed the British obsession in his expanded second edition of The Weather of Britain. Full to bursting with tales of extremes
storms, heat waves and tornadoes
Stirling also does a great job of breaking down the unpredictable mechanics of climate into its constituent nuts and bolts. Graphs, charts and dramatic photographs [are included]. New Scientist On the first edition: 'A remarkably comprehensive account of what we know about the weather and its causes in these islands...a wealth of excellent and dramatic illustrations' New Scientist 'An encyclopaedia of British weather' BBC Radio 2 '[He] discusses his subject in a way which will delight any reader with an interest in the wide variety of weather that can occur in the British Isles.' World Meteorological Organisation Bulletin, Geneva
storms, heat waves and tornadoes
Stirling also does a great job of breaking down the unpredictable mechanics of climate into its constituent nuts and bolts. Graphs, charts and dramatic photographs [are included]. New Scientist On the first edition: 'A remarkably comprehensive account of what we know about the weather and its causes in these islands...a wealth of excellent and dramatic illustrations' New Scientist 'An encyclopaedia of British weather' BBC Radio 2 '[He] discusses his subject in a way which will delight any reader with an interest in the wide variety of weather that can occur in the British Isles.' World Meteorological Organisation Bulletin, Geneva