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THE author of this book, who is professor of meteorology at Harvard University, has the rare gift of being able to write vividly and clearly about weather in its various aspects. The book under review is a second edition of a book which first appeared in 1924, and has now been amplified and rearranged. It aims at giving, in the simplest possible language, a description and explanation of almost all the phenomena of weather as observed in the United States of America, including depressions, anticyclones, tornadoes, thunderstorms, ice-storms, rainbows, haloes and many others. The descriptions are illustrated by a series of about fifty photographs, all very well reproduced. The explanations are in the main satisfactory, partly of course because the author has wisely avoided the topics which would involve him in difficult theory. That he is up-to-date is shown by the inclusion in his description of lightning of Schonland's account of the ‘leader stroke’ which initiates the discharge.
Why the Weather?
By Prof. Charles Franklin Brooks, with the collaboration of Eleanor Stabler Brooks and John Nelson. Revised and enlarged. Pp. xvii + 295 + 32 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
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B., D. Why the Weather?. Nature 137, 91 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137091a0
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