Richard Zurawski's Book of Maritime Weather

By Richard Zurawski

Nonfiction: The Maritimes, Weather, Popular Science
160 pages, Includes Photographs
$18.95, 6"x9" Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-895900-89-7
ISBN-10: 1-895900-89-1
(Available in May 2007)

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Richard Zurawski's Book of Maritime Weather is filled with fascinating weather facts, myths, climatological oddities, science, folklore, and observations of the diverse and often frustrating topic of weather in CanadaÕs Maritime Provinces. Whether you just like to watch the clouds go by or are a serious student of meteorology, there is plenty to entertain you in this book.

There's virtually everything here you'd like to know about the how and why of our regional weather. What makes our weather the way it is? What drives this ceaseless cycle of hot and cold, dry and wet? Zurawski brings the reader up to date on the modern science of forecasting but also includes historical perspectives about the weather before people made the study of weather into a science. Folklore, myths and anecdotes from days past are included with the modern facts and records of our climate. Weather sayings are not only presented, but scrutinized for their basis and value. Before the days of the super-computer and Environment Canada, the sea-bound skipper was the forecaster of his era and his innate and intimate knowledge of Maritime weather shifts could mean the difference between life and death.

Even with the aid of computers, satellites and ultramodern communications, forecasting the weather is still as much an art as it is a science. Richard Zurawski's Book of Maritime Weather taps the wisdom of the past and the present to give a holistic view of the fascinating and sometimes bizarre world of Maritime weather.



Richard Zurawski is a meteorologist, documentary filmmaker, and television and radio personality who has called Halifax, Nova Scotia, his home for almost two decades. He has been in the science and weather business for the past 25 years. He is the host, creator and producer of the TV series Wonder Why?, The Adventures of the AfterMath Crew and WiseWeatherWhys. His TV series and documentaries are enjoyed around the world. Richard is currently heard predicting the fickle Maritime weather on Rogers Radio in Halifax, Moncton and Saint John.