Weathering the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Practical Meteorology

Weathering the Wilderness is essential reading for backpackers,skiers and mountaineers. In layman's terms this book explans the weather phenomenon that can effect your well-being in the outdoors. This book also contains detailed climatic data for eight reagons of North America. When planing trips to other areas of the country this information is very usefull. Want to know the typical waether patterns and average rainfall for August on the Olymic Peninsula? Just look it up. Want to know more about microclimates and how they effect mountain weather, read this book. This will be a referance book that you will use time and again, season after season. And even if you never venture out of the house this is a great book for the amateur meteorologist.