Texas Weather: Second Edition, Revised
Texas Weather: Second Edition, Revised – Review
This is a VERY well-written book for the layman engaging Texas weather. Bomar begins the 1985 edition with an early chapter on the atmosphere and how weather conditions are commonly observed, how data is quickly gathered, and how conditions are reported and forecasted by the National Weather Service. There is then a series of chapters that describe all of the main weather conditions that affect the Lone Star State–fronts, floods, hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornadoes, heat waves/drought, winter weather, and wind. Most chapters start with a vignette about how that special weather condition involved the state in a big way at some point in the past. The place of the chapter is offered to possibly explaining how these phenomena happen and what, if any, defensive steps should be showed mainly regarding them. The purpose of the book includes a glossary and several appendices including interesting, extensive numerical data about Texas weather conditions.