Hi,

Has anybody got any opinion on Paul Hudson's et al book called Storm Force: Britain's Wildest Weather. I'm thinking that I might like it as a Christmas present to myself. I have several other books in my small collection and please bear in mind I've got no degree and am no expert but has someone lurking here, read the beast yet!

Kind Regards

Tony Powell

At Frosted Earth we are offering a signed copy of Storm Force by all three of the authors. This is in conjunction with great Northern Books and will come with a personal dedication and the price will include post and packing and there is a £5 saving when two are ordered.. Email me your address and I will send you the special form that will guarantee you a copy. These were sent out to some Weather eye readers but arrived too late for others and I can offer this to UK Sci as well.
Also there is a grand update of the Kent Weather Book due to be launched on the evening of the 15th October at Toys Hill Village Hall, Kent in the heart of the area devastated 20 years earlier that very night. Copies can be obtained through me with post and packing free and signed by all authors and of course the latest Weather eye magazine is out issue 24 with 25 due in November.
I have also had reprinted my Frost Fairs Book ( A 1000 years of great winters) if you are fed up with all the mild winters of late.

Ian Currie-Coulsdon
www.frostedearth.com
"Tony Powell" wrote in message ...
Hi,

Has anybody got any opinion on Paul Hudson's et al book called Storm Force: Britain's Wildest Weather. I'm thinking that I might like it as a Christmas present to myself. I have several other books in my small collection and please bear in mind I've got no degree and am no expert but has someone lurking here, read the beast yet!

Kind Regards

Tony Powell

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Tony Powell writes:
Hi,
*
Has anybody got any opinion on Paul Hudson's et al book called Storm
Force: Britain's Wildest Weather.* I'm thinking that I might like it as
*a Christmas present to myself. I have several*other books in my small
collection and please bear in mind I've got no*degree*and am no expert
but has someone*lurking here, read the beast*yet!

I haven't seen that book, but I bought the earlier volume by Hudson and
Macaskill: "Frozen in Time: The Worst Winters in History". It turned out
to be a "coffee table" sort of book, with lots of (black and white)
photographs but with text that looked like it had mostly been
uncritically cobbled together from contemporary newspaper reports and so
had a lot of errors. Overall I was rather disappointed, but I suppose I
wasn't the intended audience; they weren't aiming at people with a
serious interest in our weather and climate.

I suppose it's possible that the addition of Michael Fish to the writing
team for the new book will have added greater rigour.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

"Tony Powell" wrote in
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Has anybody got any opinion on Paul Hudson's et al book called Storm
Force: Britain's Wildest Weather. I'm thinking that I might like it
as a Christmas present to myself. I have several other books in my
small collection and please bear in mind I've got no degree and am no
expert but has someone lurking here, read the beast yet!

Whenever someone asks this I always jump on "The Weather of Britain" by
Robin Stirling (a fellow of the Royal Met Soc).

I recall reading at school in the late 80s/early 90s - more than once.
The author died in the mid-1990s, but a 2nd addition was released in
1997, so the internet tells me. So not topical inasmuch as you won't get
the last 10 years' weather, but an excellent read. Not condescending and
full of Daily Express hyperbole that seems to go hand-in-hand with
popular meteorology these days - and goes into good detail about events
in place.

The excellent bookkoob site should be able to locate the cheapest (new)
one for you:

http://www.bookkoob.co.uk/book/1900357062.htm

IMHO - of course! The New Scientist also took a shine to it: "Full to
bursting with tales of extremes -- storms, heat waves and tornadoes --
Stirling also does a great job of breaking down the unpredictable
mechanics of climate into its constituent nuts and bolts. Graphs, charts
and dramatic photographs [are included]."

Richard

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Whenever someone asks this I always jump on "The Weather of Britain" by
Robin Stirling (a fellow of the Royal Met Soc).


Hi Richard,

I've got that one and you're right it is a good read, just about my level
(not overloaded with scientific data/figures) of knowledge ability.

Thanks

Tony Powell