Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows

Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows by Mark Monmonier (Author). Mixing meteorological historical past with the history of scientific cartography, Monmonier charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and explores the societal impacts of extreme weather. Alongside the best way, he introduces readers to pure philosophers who step by step identified this distinctive weather pattern, to tales of communities adapting to notoriously disruptive storms, and to a few of the snowiest regions of the country.

Characterised by intense snowfalls lasting from a couple of minutes to several days, lake-impact snow is deposited by slim bands of clouds fashioned when cold, dry arctic air passes over a large, relatively heat inland lake. With maybe only half the water content of regular snow, lake snow is typically mild, fluffy, and relatively straightforward to shovel. Intriguing tales of lake impact's quirky behavior and numerous impacts embody widespread ignorance of the phenomenon in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since then a community of systematic observers have collected several many years of knowledge worth mapping, and reliable shortterm predictions based on satellites, Doppler radar, and laptop fashions at the moment are available.

Moving effortlessly from atmospheric science to anecdotes, Monmonier affords a richly detailed account of a type of climate that has long been misunderstood. Residents of lake-effect areas, historical past buffs, and weather junkies alike will relish this entertaining and informative book.

For those who loves to know about the climate and lake results, this can be an e-book to have. Gave it to my dad for x-mas and he beloved it. He is not a lot of a reader however he really loved the book.

This ebook is written for the non scientist. It is well written with many information about lake effect snowfall across the Great Lakes region of the United States. 

Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows

Mark Monmonier (Author)

246 pages

Syracuse University Press; 1 edition (September 15, 2012)

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