The weather experiment
Subtitle: the pioneers who sought to see the future
By: Peter Moore
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780865478091
Subjects: Weather forecasting; Meteorologists; Meteorology; Climatologists; Biography; History
Description: A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. --
Notes: "Originally published in 2015 by Chato & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, Great Britain'"-- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-380) and index.
Table of contents: title: The weather experiment; title: Dawn; title: Seeing. Writing in the air ; Nature caught in the very act ; Rain, wind, and the wondrous cold; title: Morning; title: Contesting. Detectives ; Trembling air, whirling winds ; Liquid lightning; title: Midday; title: Experimenting. Steady eyes, delicate skies ; Beginnings ; Dangerous paths; title: Afternoon; title: Believing. Dazzling bright ; Endings ; Truth telling; title: Dusk; title: West winds; title: Stars in FitzRoy's meteorological galaxy.