Eric Pinder

Tying Down the Wind (eBook, ePUB)

Adventures in the Worst Weather on Earth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Where can you find the worst weather on earth? The surprising answer in Tying Down the Wind is: everywhere! You don't need to climb Mount Everest or voyage to the icy desert of Antarctica to witness both the beauty and the destructiveness of weather. The same forces are at work in your own backyard.

Tying Down the Wind takes readers on a voyage of discovery through the atmosphere, a swirling ocean of air that surrounds and sustains life. The journey begins in a sunny New England woodlot and ends atop the polar ice of Antarctica—where we learn, remarkably, that the two extremes are not so different.

What triggers changes in the weather? How are tornadoes, thunderstorms, heat waves, and blizzards all related? Tying Down the Wind supplies the answers, and invites you to experience the excitement of the world's worst weather in the comfort of your own home...or car.

Drawing on the author's experiences at the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire's White Mountains, Tying Down the Wind revisits the devastating Northeast Ice Storm of 1998, takes readers on a snow-blind walk through a Berkshire blizzard, and describes the impact of a 54,000- degree lightning bolt just a few yards away.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101664087
• Artikelnr.: 44666871

Autorenporträt

Eric Pinder was born in upstate New York, and after attended college in western Massachusetts, he moved to northern New Hampshire. Eric's lifelong interests in science and the outdoors led to jobs at the Appalachian Mountain Club and Mount Washington Observatory. For seven years he lived and worked as a weather observer atop the snowy, windswept, 6288-foot summit of Mount Washington, the Home of the World's Worst Weather. His experiences there inspired several books. He is also an avid nature photographer. He lives in Berlin, New Hampshire.