Northeast Ohio's top meteorologist hosts this collection of monthly and daily weather statistics, storm safety tips, skygazing suggestions, miscellaneous fun facts, and entertaining short essays about weather, pets, sports, and other favorite topics. Includes guest essays by local TV and radio personalities and other friends of Dick Goddard.
Northeast Ohio's top meteorologist hosts this collection of monthly and daily weather statistics, storm safety tips, skygazing suggestions, miscellaneous fun facts, and entertaining short essays about weather, pets, sports, and other favorite topics. Includes guest essays by local TV and radio personalities and other friends of Dick Goddard.
Nobody explains Cleveland's weather better than Dick Goddard, twice rated the most popular local weathercaster in America. Now his first book makes weather easier to understand -- and fun to learn about -- with month-by-month facts, folklore, storm tips, and weather wit. Humorous short essays range from stargazing to global warming.
Northeast Ohio's top meteorologist "hosts" this collection of monthly and daily weather statistics, storm safety tips, skygazing suggestions, miscellaneous fun facts, and entertaining short essays about weather, pets, sports, and other favorite topics. Includes guest essays by local TV and radio personalities and other friends of Dick Goddard.
The autobiography of Lou "The Toe" Groza, who played for the Cleveland Browns longer than anyone (1946-1967), vividly recalls a golden age of pro football. Filled with great personal anecdotes about fellow Browns legends like Jim Brown, Paul Brown, and Otto Graham. Groza was a gentleman in a rough game; he tells his story with warmth and humor.
Dick Goddard, local TV legend and one of the most respected meteorologists in the U.S., is the ?host? of this new annual almanac collecting weather data, fun facts, and entertaining essays related to Northeast Ohio.The almanac offers month-by-month weather statistics, like daily average and record temperatures, sunrise and sunset times, precipitation averages and records, and sky-watching information. There are storm-safety tips and a recap of some of last year?s most notable storms.It also rounds up miscellaneous fun facts about Northeast Ohio that aren?t compiled in any other publication?high-school sports-team nicknames, city mottoes, common baby names, top-selling local ice-cream flavors and lots more.Goddard and several of his local celebrity and author friends contribute two dozen essays on a variety of local topics, including weather (of course), pets, history, music, food, and sports.Includes Dick Goddard?s humorous cartoons.
Today, given the well-publicized impacts of events such as El Niño, there is an unequaled public awareness of how climate affects the quality of life and environment. Such awareness has created an increasing demand for accurate climatological information. This information is now available in one convenient, accessible source, the Encyclopedia of World Climatology. This comprehensive volume covers all the main subfields of climatology, supplies information on climates in major continental areas, and explains the intricacies of climatic processes. The level of presentation will meet the needs of specialists, university students, and educated laypersons. A successor to the 1986 Encyclopedia of Climatology, this compendium provides a clear explanation of current knowledge and research directions in modern climatology. This new encyclopedia emphasizes climatological developments that have evolved over the past twenty years. It offers more than 200 informative articles prepared by 150 experts on numerous subjects, ranging from standard areas of study to the latest research studies. The relationship between climatology and both physical and social science is fully explored, as is the significance of climate for our future well-being. The information is organized for speedy access. Entries are conveniently arranged in alphabetical order, thoroughly indexed, and cross-referenced. Every entry contains useful citations to additional source materials. The Editor John E. Oliver is Professor Emeritus at Indiana State University. He holds a B.Sc. from London University, and a MA and Ph.D from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia University and then at Indiana State where he was formerly Chair of the Geography-Geology Department, and Assoc iate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences. He has written many books and journal articles in Climatology, Applied Climatology and Physical Geography.
Explores some of the United States most severe or unusual weather systems, including electrified dust storms, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, ball lightning, and falls of fish and toads.
