Did you look up at the sky today, or check a weather forecast? We can't avoid the influences and impacts of weather. It controls transportation, recreation, aviation, and your planned vacation. Weather is a big factor in our moods, sometimes from something as simple as the difference between a sunny, mild day, and a cloudy, wet day. Weather plays a tremendous role in everyday life around the planet, with extreme cost in dollars and lives when events like hurricanes, ice storms, tornadoes, or heatwaves impact communities and regions. Nearly all living creatures and plants contend with cycles and patterns in our atmosphere. We can't escape weather, so we need to understand it. Weather Things you Always Wanted to Know answers the full spectrum of common weather questions, in simple language for adults down to high school students. It's a full lesson in the science of meteorology without a lot of math, and without tuition!
Author Biography:
Alan Sealls is an Emmy award-winning broadcast meteorologist. Having worked for decades on television in Milwaukee, Chicago, and in Mobile as a chief meteorologist, you may have watched him years ago on WGN and on CNN. Alan is also an adjunct college professor. He earned meteorology degrees from Cornell University and from Florida State University. He is a past president of the National Weather Association, and he is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. In addition to providing weather safety seminars to businesses, Alan is frequently invited to speak at national conferences, and he is often retained by attorneys as a consulting meteorologist or expert witness in legal cases where weather is a factor. Always an energetic and entertaining speaker, Alan has reached tens of thousands of children and adults over his career in public service presentations on the science of meteorology. Some people recognize Alan for going viral and being proclaimed "Best Weatherman Ever" in 2017 for Hurricane Irma coverage. Alan is also known as an accomplished weather photographer. His weather photos and video work have been used in textbooks, magazines, newspapers, science journals, documentaries, and on network TV programs. Find Alan Sealls on social media and at alansealls.com
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