Weather

Abstract

THE author of this book has undertaken a task the difficulty of which has deterred all previous writers, for Fitz Roy's “Weather Book” can hardly be termed a text-book of the subject, and, moreover, it was written at a date at which weather telegraphy was in its infancy. The books which have appeared during the last two decades have been either manuals mainly for the use of seamen, like the Barometer Manuals of the Meteorological Office; or explanations of the interpretation of weather charts, like Mr. Scott's “Weather Charts and Storm Warnings,” of which the third edition was lately noticed in these pages. The idea of telling an isolated observer how to employ local weather signs and the manifold modifications of clouds in aiding his own judgment of local weather has not hitherto been adequately carried out.

Weather: a Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day.

By the Hon. Ralph Abercromby. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., “International Scientific Series,” 1887.)