The story of the British and their weather
By: Patrick Nobbs
Publisher: Amberley
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781445644523; 9781445644615
Subjects: Climate; Weather; History; Climatology
Other titles: From frost fairs to Indian summers
Description: "The extraordinary tale of Britain's weather and our relationship with it across the ages is told in this book. Recounting the greatest weather stories from the distant to the most recent past, it reveals a surprisingly frightening picture. Recent history alone includes a devastating tidal surge in 1953 that killed thousands around the North Sea coasts; bitter winter weather in 1947 and 1962/63 paralysed Britain economically, as did the dramatic water shortages caused by the 1975-76 drought. Whole communities have been wiped out in hours by devastating floods, while tornadoes, blizzards, gales, lightning and smog have all repeatedly caused death on a wide scale, even in the heart of London. And just as Icelandic volcanoes have shown more recently how ash can disrupt modern aircraft, so too have volcanoes influenced our weather catastrophically in the past, at one time sinking Napoleonic guns and shaping European politics, and at another almost ending humanity in its infancy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.