{"id":2639,"date":"2006-11-05T09:56:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T09:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2006-11-05T09:56:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T09:56:39","slug":"five_best_weath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2639","title":{"rendered":"Five Best Weather Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/weekend\/fivebest\/?id=110009199&amp;mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&amp;ojrss=frontpage\">Christopher Burt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>1. The Elements Rage by Frank W. Lane (Chilton, 1965).<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nWhat interests most people about weather (as opposed to climate&#8211;&#8220;Climate lasts all the time and weather only a few days,&#8221; as Mark Twain put it) is its extremes and curious phenomena. Frank Lane clearly had that in mind in the early 1960s when he undertook writing &#8220;The Elements Rage.&#8221; Even if the science here is out of date, the drama of the stories never grows old. The book offers dozens of extraordinary black-and-white photographs and a fact-packed text, rich in anecdotes on matters well beyond meteorology&#8211;earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, volcanoes. As an inspiration toward appreciating how strange the natural world can be, the book set a standard that others, including myself, have attempted to emulate.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Burt: 1. The Elements Rage by Frank W. Lane (Chilton, 1965). What interests most people about weather (as opposed to climate&#8211;&#8220;Climate lasts all the time and weather only a few days,&#8221; as Mark Twain put it) is its extremes and curious phenomena. Frank Lane clearly had that in mind in the early 1960s when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}