Introduction 1Part 1: What's Going On Up There? 5Chapter 1: What in the World Is Weather? 7Chapter 2: Forecasts and Forecasting 13Chapter 3: Behind the Air Wars 35Chapter 4: Land, Sea, and Precipitation: Is This Any Way to Run a Planet? 59Part 2: Braving the Elements 77Chapter 5: Blowing in the Winds 79Chapter 6: Getting Cirrus 101Chapter 7: The Greatest Storms on Earth 123Part 3: Some Seasonable Explanations 145Chapter 8: The Ways of Winter 147Chapter 9: Twists and Turns of Spring 177Chapter 10: Extremely Summer 209Chapter 11: Falling for Autumn 231Part 4: The Long Run 239Chapter 12: Climate Is What You Expect; Weather Is What You Get 241Chapter 13: Weathering Our Changing Atmosphere 265Chapter 14: Taking Care of the Air 277Part 5: The Special Effects 293Chapter 15: Up in the Sky! Look! 295Chapter 16: Tools of the Trade 311Chapter 17: Try This at Home 327Part 6: The Part of Tens 337Chapter 18: Ten (or So) Most Deadly World Weather Disasters 339Chapter 19: Ten Weatherwise Critters 345Chapter 20: Ten Grand Old Weather Proverbs 351Appendix: Internet Resource Directory 357Index 365
John D. Cox is a professional science writer. He studied biological and physical sciences at Harvard and MIT as a fellow of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at MIT.
