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Book reviews isobaric charts and even simple maps. There is no bibliography, and the glossary does include rather too many terms that are merely personal slang used by Faidley and his chase Partners.

Naturally, many of Faidley’s outstanding photo- graphs are included. How I envy US photographers

68765).1996. viii+182 PP. Paperback us But even here, I found the text rather disappointing. $24.95. ISBN 1 888763 00 0 Although the author does include some verv

Storm chaser: In pursuit of untamed skies by Warren Faidley.The Weather Channel, Atlanta, Georgia (available from Gazelle Book Services Ltd, Lancaster, Tel: O15Z4

their broad horizons and high cloud-bases that give such spectacular views of lightning and tornadoes!

Warren Faidley is a well known American profes- sional photographer who specialises in severe weather, and this book recounts how, from being a news photographer interested in the weather, he eventually came to earn h s living, full-time, from chasing storms and running a weather-related photographic agency.

There are highly personal (and often highly col- oured) accounts of some specific thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes that Faidley has encoun- tered. Unfortunately, one of the faults of the book is that there is no table of contents or index, so although you know that there is an account of (say) Hurricane Andrew you have to search to find it.

Being written for a popular audience, the book is rather disappointing meteorologically, in that only minimal details of the conditions are gven. I found

- general advice on photography, he prefaces it - probably for legal reasons -with a disclaimer, saying that it does not apply to severe weather (for which one needs experience and training), but to gentle weather subjects. Regrettably, many of the elemen- tary points that could have been included, such as how some cameras drain batteries with long ex- posures and the use of polarising filters, have been omitted.

Nevertheless, this remains an interesting descrip- tion of storm-chasing in the USA. Its account of how the growth in numbers of ‘cowboy’ chasers has gwen the pursuit a bad name, and even led to chasers being banned from certain weather centres and to police restrictions on people converging on severe storms, does, however, make one wonder if chasing has seen its best days.

myself longing for some hard facts- and figures, Storm Dunlop

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