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The Discovery of Weather: Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869 Book

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  • The Discovery of Weather: Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869
  • Written by author Jerry Lockett
  • Published by Formac Publishing Company, Limited, 9/26/2012
  • In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf
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Authors

Cast of Characters
Chronology
Introduction

Part One -- Mr. Saxby’s Prediction
Chapter 1: The Calm before the Storm
Chapter 2: A Storm of Ideas
Chapter 3: Storm Warnings
Chapter 4: Barking at the Moon

Part Two -- The Storm
Chapter 5: Deluge
Chapter 6: Landfall
Chapter 7: Storm Surge
Chapter 8: Aftermath
Chapter 9: Why Saxby Still Matters

Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: The Saffir-Simpson Scale of Hurricane Intensity
Appendix 2: The Weather during Saxby’s Storm
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index

JERRY LOCKETT is a Halifax-based writer and editor. His first book, Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada, won the Dartmouth Book Awards prize for non-fiction in 2011. He is a two-time Atlantic Journalism Awards finalist, and his work has appeared in publications in Canada, the United States, and Britain, including New Scientist, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Geographical Magazine, Equinox, Cruising World, Blue Water Sailing and many others. He has felt the wrath of two hurricanes--Hugo in 1989 and Juan in 2003--and thinks that?s enough for anyone.


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