{"product_id":"the-discovery-of-weather-jerry-lockett-9781459500808","title":"The Discovery of Weather: Stephen Saxby, the Tumultuous Birth of Weather Forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869","description":"In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters in England struggled with the scientific establishment for recognition and vied with astrologers and other charlatans for public acceptance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the voices in this struggle was Stephen Saxby, a British naval instructor who thought he had found a sure-fire way of forecasting storms. He championed a popular but somewhat eccentric theory that weather disturbances are linked to stages in the moon's orbit of the earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaxby got lucky. One of his well-known long-range predictions--for a serious storm on October 4, 1869--was right on the button. On that very day, a deadly hurricane caused massive floods along the eastern seaboard of the United States then barrelled ashore at the Canadian border. The timing of the storm could hardly have been worse. Coinciding with an extremely high tide, the resulting storm surge breached centuries-old dykes at the head of the Bay of Fundy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Discovery of Weather, author Jerry Lockett traces the early days of weather forecasting, the background to Saxby's prediction, and the drama of the storm itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerry Lockett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1459500806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459500808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Formac Publishing Company Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Jerry Lockett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244131827967,"sku":"9781459500808","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9819066-696a-4ebb-98b7-31205de192c2.jpg?v=1758135015","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-discovery-of-weather-jerry-lockett-9781459500808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}