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• W4385080667 abstract "Eric Fisher's enthusiasm for big weather is well-known to those who've watched the meteorologist on WBZ-TV and The Weather Channel. Readers of Mighty Storms of New England will be treated to the written version of that enthusiasm.Fisher is at his best when he takes the time to describe how a particular storm came about. For instance, in his description of the 1998 ice storm, he does us all a service by digging into the details of why some precipitation that starts aloft as rain ends up hitting the ground as sleet while under other conditions it will turn into freezing rain that accumulates on surfaces, often with disastrous results.Another particularly informative section is his introduction to floods, pointing out how much humans have done in “making flooding worse even as technology and knowledge advance.” The growth of cities and towns has meant that water that was once absorbed now has no place to go, so it swells and rushes and destroys.He's diligent in connecting weather to the human impacts, chronicling the extensive loss of life not only from the storms per se but also from our attempts to survive them. For instance, carbon monoxide poisoning kills many people using generators to keep refrigerators and furnaces going when storms knock the power out for days at a time. He documents the human responses to catastrophe: the short-term recovery efforts and the far-reaching infrastructure projects undertaken as direct results of the event. The Great White Hurricane of 1888, a snow-drenched storm that stalled over the region for days, helped persuade city planners in Boston and New York to put utility lines and public transportation underground. “The T” in Boston, the nation's first subway, opened nine years later, a direct response to the staggering amount of snow that piled up in March 1888.Advances in weather forecasting technology likewise followed some of the catastrophes Fisher writes about. Hurricanes Carol and Edna in 1954 brought attention to the need for better forecasting, and funding was allocated to use aircraft to study hurricanes.Fisher has chosen 26 weather events ranging in time from the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 to the most recent, the snow blitz of 2015. His choices include all of the hurricanes, floods, and blizzards you might expect, but he introduces readers to some of the less well-known events, notably the Dark Day of 1780. I was intrigued to learn of the July 1911 heat wave that halted mail delivery and saw 5,000 people sleeping outdoors on the Boston Common.Many New Englanders will be familiar with “the year without a summer,” which featured frost in each summer month of 1816. But Fisher digs deeply into the history to note how sporadic and spotty that year's weather was, with weeks of normalcy then plunging into freezing stretches. The disruptions of 1816 took a full year to develop from the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in April 1815. Fisher paints a memorable picture of a post-eruption volcano that had lost a mile of its top, spewing pulverized dust into the atmosphere and blowing it around the globe for more than a year.New England's geographical position often puts it in the weather crosshairs. The prevailing winds come across the continent from the west, but anywhere that a huge land mass meets a vast ocean can be visited by weather systems that travel along the coast. That can create gradients of impact between coastal and inland areas. The position of the jet stream can also create a distinct division between how a weather system impacts land to the north of it versus to the south. That means New England's weather can be surprisingly localized. It's a rare storm that effects all of New England uniformly. He calls this out often as he describes the effects of each storm.Tornadoes are by their very nature localized. They are weather events rather than a weather system on the scale of a hurricane or a slow-moving blizzard. The Windsor Locks tornado in October 1979 brought 200 miles per hour winds to a swath only 11.3 miles in length. It destroyed many of the vintage aircraft at the Bradley Air Museum.Connecticut readers will recall—either directly or through family stories—plenty of the events that he chronicles. He notes that the two worst power outages in the state's history happened in 2011 within two months of each other, caused by two very different storms. Hurricane Irene hit in late August with storm surge, high winds and extensive flooding that left the region unplugged. Two months later, an early season snowstorm just before Halloween dumped tons of heavy wet snow on trees, primarily oaks, that hadn't yet dropped their leaves. The breaking of limbs onto powerlines kept utility crews busy for days.The three worst hurricanes to hit New England—those in 1635, 1815, and 1938—all made landfall on coastal Connecticut within the 60 mile stretch between Milford and Groton. But the worst flooding ever came from the one-two punch of Hurricanes Connie and Diane in 1955 when more than twenty inches of rain fell on Connecticut towns including Barkhamsted, Burlington, and Norfolk.With meteorology a particularly jargon-rich discipline, Fisher occasionally falls into the trap of assuming too much of his readers. But the major flaw of the book has little to do with the author, but with the publisher. The subject matter begs for maps, and there are none. It's hard to picture a TV meteorologist without a weather map illustrating the location of the jet stream, the various weather systems, and the regions under siege. Fisher has hammered home that a weather event that devastates Maine might have little impact in Vermont, that a tornado in Connecticut might be unheard of in New Hampshire. Our grasp of this phenomenon would be enhanced by maps. The book is not photo-rich, either, but Fisher's ability to make storms come alive makes that less of a problem." @default.
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• W4385080667 title "Mighty Storms of New England: The Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Blizzards, and Floods that Shaped the Region" @default.
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