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    Weather Eye

    By Brendan McWilliams

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    Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish Times, which over the years has described and evoked all aspects of that most perennial of subjects for exchange and conversation - the lingua franca of country - and townspersons everywhere. Subjects encompassed include weather in history, weather in literature, weather in folklore, weather in mythology and weather in religion: auguries and forecasting; the science of meteorology; winds, rain, atmospheric pressure, cloud formations; macabre extremes; nomenclature; thoughts on snow, water, fog, dew, hail; thunder and lightning, rainbows and mirages; chroniclers and personalities (from Pepys to William Molyneux, Ben Franklin and Francis Beaufort, Mary Shelley and Percy French); lineaments of air and space; anomalies and optical phenomena; weathermen and weatherwomen. Weather Eye is a fascinating and authoritative compendium which will interest the serious student and delight the general reader curious about the workings of the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Lilliput Press
    Release dateJan 1, 1994
    ISBN9781843513766
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    Brendan McWilliams

    Brendan McWilliams, BSc. MBA, CMet., FRMet.S, born in Dublin in 1944, was an accomplished meteorologist, scientist and administrator. He presented the RTE radio and television weather forecasts during the 1970s, became Deputy Director of Met Eireann in the late 1980s and a Director of the European Meteorological Satellite Organisation, EUMETSAT, in the late 1990s. During his career he frequently represented Ireland at an international level within the field of meteorology and climate change. He is best known in Ireland, however, for his daily Weather Eye column, which ran in The Irish Times from 1988 until his death in 2007. A selection of his 2007 articles will appear in 2009.

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