Weather for Dummies (Paperback, 2)

Introduction 1

Part 1: What’s Going On Up There? 5

Chapter 1: What in the World Is Weather? 7

Chapter 2: Forecasts and Forecasting 13

Chapter 3: Behind the Air Wars 35

Chapter 4: Land, Sea, and Precipitation: Is This Any Way to Run a Planet? 59

Part 2: Braving the Elements 77

Chapter 5: Blowing in the Winds 79

Chapter 6: Getting Cirrus 101

Chapter 7: The Greatest Storms on Earth 123

Part 3: Some Seasonable Explanations 145

Chapter 8: The Ways of Winter 147

Chapter 9: Twists and Turns of Spring 177

Chapter 10: Extremely Summer 209

Chapter 11: Falling for Autumn 231

Part 4: The Long Run 239

Chapter 12: Climate Is What You Expect; Weather Is What You Get 241

Chapter 13: Weathering Our Changing Atmosphere 265

Chapter 14: Taking Care of the Air 277

Part 5: The Special Effects 293

Chapter 15: Up in the Sky! Look! 295

Chapter 16: Tools of the Trade 311

Chapter 17: Try This at Home 327

Part 6: The Part of Tens 337

Chapter 18: Ten (or So) Most Deadly World Weather Disasters 339

Chapter 19: Ten Weatherwise Critters 345

Chapter 20: Ten Grand Old Weather Proverbs 351

Appendix: Internet Resource Directory 357

Index 365