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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


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