Here is the table of contents from PARTLY SUNNY:
Introduction
Chapter 1
Meet The Weather Junkie: Why the Weather Is An Obsession
A Serious Problem from an Early Age
Top 5 Reasons Why the Weather Is Addictive
A Preview and Look Ahead
Part I: Weird Science? Weather & The Television
Chapter 2
The Top 15 Best Local TV Weathercasters
Weaned on TV Weather
The Ballad of Jack Van Roy
Weather: The Media Unplugged
Wooly Lamb and the Sordid History of Weather TV
A Clouded History: The Four Phases of TV Weather
How I Picked the Country's Best Weathercasters
The Top 15 Best Local TV Weathercasters
Vince Condella, WITI-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dave Dahl, KSTP-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota
David Finfrock, KXAS-TV, Dallas, Texas
Greg Fishel, WRAL-TV, Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina
Doug Hill, WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C.
Janice Huff, KRON-TV, San Francisco, California
Harvey Leonard, WHDH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts
Jim Little, KOIN-TV, Portland, Oregon
Dave Murray, KTVI-TV, St. Louis, Missouri
Mike Nelson, KUSA-TV, Denver, Colorado
Bryan Norcross, WTVJ-TV, Miami, Florida
Ed Phillips, KNXV-TV, Phoenix, Arizona
Steve Pool, KOMO-TV, Seattle, Washington
Tom Skilling, WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois
Mike Thompson, WDAF-TV, Kansas City, Missouri
Chapter 3
Weather You Can Always Turn To: Backstage at the Weather Channel
Vegas is Not in the Eastern Time Zone
Weather & Your Pork: The Early Years of Bac-Os and Losses
The Hurricane that Saved the TV Network
The Weather War Room
Para-Social Scores: Para-Normal or Para-Strange?
Grading the Weathercasters: Map Blockage and the Big Cities
Story Telling: The Weather as a Novel
The 11:30 Briefing
Waving At Air: Live in the Studio
If I Programmed The Weather Channel . . .
The Local Forecast Soundtrack Album
Merchandising the Weather: Golf Balls & Turtlenecks
Forecasting the Future of The Weather Channel
Chapter 4
Show & Tell: The Secret Lives of The Weather Channel Meteorologists
Bios & Bizarre But True Facts About The On-Camera Personalities
Part II: Outsmarting the weather for under $500.
Chapter 5
Weather Stations for Home, Business & School
No One Lives At the Airport
The Three Basic Categories
Weather 101: The Basic Function Of a Weather Station
Shopper Tips & Accuracy Advice for Five Instruments
How To Order a Station
Weather On The Homefront: Digital Stations for Fun & Education
The Best: Davis Weather Monitor II
1st Runner-Up: WeatherMax
2nd Runner-Up: The Weather Report
3rd Runner-Up: Fourth Dimension History Logging Station
4th Runner-Up: Rainwise
The 9-to-5 Weather Station: Industrial & Professional Applications
The Best: MesoTech Automatic Weather Station
1st Runner-Up: Capricorn
2nd Runner-Up: Nimbus Weather Instruments
The Three R's: Rainfall, Relative Humidity and Record Temperatures
The Best: Automated Weather Source
Chapter 6
More Tools For Predicting The Weather
Weather Radios: Bad Weather Turns Them On
What You'll Hear: Severe Weather Warnings & Three Other Broadcasts Well, Nobody's Perfect: The Shortcomings of the National Weather Service
The Best Weather Radios
Alert Models: Maxon, Midland, Radio Shack, WeatherOne
Basic Models: Sony, Radio Shack
Scanners: Tuning In Your Town
What You'll Hear: Weather Spotters & Six Other Frequencies
Which Model Should You Buy?
Frequency Finders
Lightning Detectors: Seeing the Storm Before It Sees You
Who Needs A Lightning Detector?
How They Work
The Ratings: Storm Alert, Stormwise Lightning Alert
Part III: Cruising the Weather Information Superhighway
Chapter 7
Easy & Fun Day Trips On The Weather Information Superhighway
Five Hundred Channels and the Weather's On
Exit 1: A Weather Buff's Guide To the Weather Channel
Exit 2: Weather By Phone-Talking Yellow Pages & Other Hotlines
Exit 3: Fax It: Zapping Weather Information To a Fax Machine
Chapter 8
More Difficult Trails On The Weather Information Superhighway
Exit 4: Personal Computers & Weather Databases
Exit 5: Brewing Up Home Forecasts
Exit 6: Weather On-Line-Using CompuServe, GEnie and America On-Line
Exit 7: Now What? Using Inexpensive "Shareware" Programs to Massage Data
Chapter 9
Experts Only: The Most Challenging Journeys On the Weather Information Superhighway
What's Required: Souped-Up Computers and a Thick Wallet
Exit 8: Weather Databases On-Line: WSI, Alden & Accu-Weather
Other Weather Services that Won't Break the Bank
Exit 9: Satellite Photos Without the Dish
Tapping Into Free Military Weather Broadcasts
Exit 10: Talking to the Satellites: Earth Stations
The Future: Doppler Radar at 55 mph and Three Other Soon-to-be Technologies
Chapter 10
In the Kitchen With the Earth: Recipes for Tasty Weather Phenomena
How to Outsmart Various Weather Events
Thunderstorms: Popcorn Varieties & Squall Lines
Tornadoes: A Different Twist On The Same Old Dish
Heatwaves: Just a Lot of Hot Air?
Blizzards: As Chilly as a Tasty Freeze
Hurricanes: The Big Blow
Part IV: The Best Gifts for the Weather Junkie
Chapter 11
The Top 10 Gifts & More For Weather Junkies
Umbrellas to weather watches, tornado books to auto thermometers-
What To Buy the Weather Buff
The Best Weather Catalogs
Organizations for Weather Buffs