The Weather Factor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780395361443)

From the colonists' first encounter with the American climate to the launch of the first weather satellite in space, weather has influenced battles, wars, elections, sports events, balloon launches, airship flights, and many other history-making events. Want to know what part the weather played in ending the Siege in Yorktown? Why President Harrison caught his fatal cold on Inauguration Day? Which was the worst-ever Saturday for football all across the country? David Ludlum, America's acknowledged dean of weather history, answers these questions and describes many more historical weather events and their consequences.

Author: David McWilliams Ludlum
ISBN-10: 0395361443
ISBN-13: 9780395361443
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1984
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback