Weather: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press)

This book is simply a wonder. It has taken more complex functions of weather and explained them in such a way that it becomes less difficult to understand. The colorful pictures are also alluring to the eye and draw you into the book making it a whole experience in wanting to learn more about weather. I am really excited and so happy my meteorologist friend referred it to me and it has helped me a great deal. I think I will buy a 2nd copy for good measure!Hope this helps!

Well I was not sure if I would like this book and wondered before I bought it if it would be too basic. It is just perfect -- plenty of useful information that is well explained. The pictures are superb and really add to this book!There are many reasons to choose this book:+ Sections that cover: Storms, (even tornadoes), What makes the weather, Cloud Classifications (with descriptions and pictures of clouds), types of precipitation (rain, snow, ice, etc), Ice Storms, Hurricanes, Weather Forecasting, Barometers, Wind Speed, Beauford Wind Scale Chart (very helpful), Weather Maps and Radar, Make Your Forecast (this is my favorite section as he shows you how to predict weather using a weather map and doing a future motion of the front etc.).+ This book is very easy to understand and is a wonderful reference book. This book I highly recommend to all!

This is a re-published version of an original golden book of Weather that has been on the shelves for many years but is still just as informative as it was in its original version. I have found it explains the formation of weather systems and gives excellant illustrations and explanations through out the book. It is small in size, making it a good pocket guide to carry along when traveling to refer to whenever you see a formation you want to identify. Well worth the price, and I reccomend it to all beginners and even some pro's that need a referance to look back on. It arrived in good condition and I refer to it often.

I had this book as a kid and found it on kindle. A great, basic description of what forms our weather.

This was my first weather book choice. A long time ago,TV weathermen tended to add technical graphs and charts to the forecast. I was casually interested in weather. But I couldn't really understand the high pressure ridges and low pressure troughs they were saying were in the barometric pressure charts. So, based on the excellent quality of these Golden Guide books, I bought the weather one.I later bought maybe 6 or 12 more books on weather and clouds.A friend of mine was always cursing weather forecasters as being stupid.He had a lovely granddaughter in grade school with rumored near genius grades.I told him about this book on weather for kids. I said I knew that he hated the entire subject of weather, but this was the first book I had ever read on the subject, and I indeed go back from time to time and reread it. It is short and easy to read and every page has an illustration or a picture and just a paragraph or two of text.I told him it doesn't take much time to read, and if he didn't like it, he could give it to his granddaughter and she might make a good secondary school project on weather out of the book.So, he took it.Two months go by. He is silent on the stupidity of weather people. I finally ask him "Did you give the book to your granddaughter yet?" The answer was a somewhat gruff "Yes".That was the end of the weatherman stupidity remarks.I highly recommend this book.

Perfect pocket sized guide book. Great for little or big learners alike. We almost have a complete collection of these Golden Guides. Some are the originals and some like this one new prints. But they are all the same size and filled with great info. The collection is in our natural learning area. We love these.

This is a classic booklet. I bought it for my wife so she can read our Florida skies and the dumbed down TV weather map.Weather is complex and evolving. This Golden Guides on Weather is quite comprehensive, brief on the text, and provides great illustrations that speak volumes. The only way this book could be better is to make it an iBook with animations to show the process of weather.I used it 40 years ago when I was in college. I highly recommend it.

This book gave me a good, basic understanding of weather. It was both readable and very informative. The writing and graphics used make this a great book for someone who wants to learn the basics of weather. I would highly recommend it.

Excellent and informative book. I have had other weather books that are much bigger and they don't give 1/10th of the information this small pocket size book does. I am not done reading it yet but have thoroughly enjoyed what I have read so far. I will be re-reading this a few times I imagine as I would like to understand weather more than I do.

Weather is a great book to read over a weekend. It is full of helpful information for a weather hobbyist.

good read

I was very disappointed in the last couple of pages that addresses climate change. The book was updated in 1995 and yet the reasoning it gives against our warming climate were nothing short of asinine. It starts by saying the Earth was warming when it was first published and then it started to cool. That is patently untrue. The planet had been going through a long term slight cooling trend for the last 5000 years. It was not warming when this book was first published. It started to warm in the last 1970s and has been skyrocketing ever since. It is undeniable. Then they reference the temperature records that go back about a hundred years. Say wha? If the author had any climatology background, they'd know that there are temperature records going back MILLIONS of years. A thermometer is not the only way to measure temperature.I suspect the climate change section was written by someone at the publishing house who didn't bother to ask a real scientist.