A field guide to what’s over your head, written by a weather journalist for people who don’t want the math. Cloud types and what each one is telling you about the next few hours. How a thunderstorm actually organizes itself and what makes a supercell different. Hail, derechos, hurricanes, the difference between a watch and a warning and why the wording is what it is. Then the sky at night — moon halos, blood moons, aurora, meteor showers, and light pillars. It has short chapters, photographs throughout, and it makes an ordinary drive more interesting. That I still can’t tell a stratocumula from a wispy nimbus is on me, not the book.
Skies Above