A review by andiesmith
Cloud Warriors: Deadly Storms, Climate Chaos—and the Pioneers Creating a Revolution in Weather Forecasting by Thomas E. Weber

5.0

I read this book during not one but two tornado warnings and crazy Austin weather. (I know deadly heat will follow soon) I found it helped set the mood…but it is not required to do so.  

 

Cloud Warriors focuses on the people pushing boundaries of science and technology to build better weather forecasts—providing life-saving warnings and crucial intelligence about nature’s deadliest threats. I found it fascinating that the groups studying weather are not just meteorologists but also social scientists to study how the best way to get warnings out there, and the study the inequities of weather and survival. I work on the opposite side from the people in the book. I am in disaster recovery, so I see the world every day after the storms, fires and heat have left. The Cloud warriors out there are trying to find better ways to warn peoples, while I try to help communities mitigate the disasters when they hit. It is not an if, but when. 

 

I found this book fascinating and may have sent a lot of coworker’s teams messages telling them they had to read it.  Thank you, St. Martin’s Press, and NetGalley! #cloudwarriors #netgalley