By Randy Cerveny
ISBN 1560258012
This novel is split up into separate sections dealing with different weather phenomena. Snow, rain, lightning, tornadoes, etc. And then each chapter give a few examples of some of the stranger event recorded by man. Each chapter ends with a little bit on safety for that given weather event.
The stories are well told. It's obvious that the author is a true weather enthusiast. I got the distinct impression that with each retelling he gets excited by his own stories all over again. There are stories of blood rains, and ball lightning, frog storms and frigid snow storms. When possible scientific explanations are given for some of the stranger occurrences. But there are still plenty of unsolved mysteries.
The books lends itself nicely to reading chunk by chunk. A chapter before bed, maybe another chapter on lunch break, and before I knew it the book was over. Sometimes I wished that the chapter could have been longer, and that the stories would have been flushed out a bit more. The book was well edited, the fat was well trimmed, and what you get is the best of the stories the author has to share told in a precise quick moving fashion.
7 out of 10
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