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The Book of Clouds
John A. Day
#UA2092
Paperback, 205 pages; 2005 (2002)
$14.95
 Members' Price: $12.71
John A. Day, a.k.a. "the Cloudman," has a Ph.D. in cloud physics and a penchant for taking beautiful sky pictures. In The Book of Clouds, he offers a quick lesson in "what clouds are, how they form, how they affect our planet, and how we can forecast weather just by observing them." The hundreds of color photographs of cumulus, stratus, lenticular, pileus, noctilucent, funnel, and many other types of clouds help you identify the different varieties—and the images are simply lovely to behold. (I was especially struck by the amazing photo of very rare and startling mammatus clouds—I had seen such a sky of sagging, pouch-like clouds during my youth in Texas, and the sight has been etched indelibly in my memory. It was exciting to learn exactly what I had seen that day!) This impressive guidebook is a must for passionate sky-gazers.
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