Book description
Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish
Times, which over the years has described and evoked all aspects of
that most perennial of subjects for exchange and conversation - the
lingua franca of country - and townspersons everywhere. Subjects
encompassed include weather in history, weather in literature, weather
in folklore, weather in mythology and weather in religion: auguries
and forecasting; the science of meteorology; winds, rain, atmospheric
pressure, cloud formations; macabre extremes; nomenclature; thoughts
on snow, water, fog, dew, hail; thunder and lightning, rainbows and
mirages; chroniclers and personalities (from Pepys to William
Molyneux, Ben Franklin and Francis Beaufort, Mary Shelley and Percy
French); lineaments of air and space; anomalies and optical phenomena;
weathermen and weatherwomen. Weather Eye is a fascinating and
authoritative compendium which will interest the serious student and
delight the general reader curious about the workings of the world.
