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Aerial plankton? I had no idea. Spider ballooning I did know about, however, thanks to Charlotte’s Web.

I wish I could take a naturalist/folk weather class so I could pick up on natural observations and make pretty good weather predictions. This kind of “seeing” and connection with the natural world has mostly been lost…

Fun short little weather-stories.

St Elmo’s Fire and the phone calls the weatherman receives in Nebraska

Bush pilots in the Northern Territories. A story of one of these pilots that crashed and used the “ice blink” by flashing his light into the clouds and using Morse code to communicate with someone for help. Just wild and so so cool.

No page numbers in this edition! So odd. But it’s delightful. Slone’s delight and wonder in the sky, and his refreshing resistance to think in purely empirical and “factual” terms makes this a fun and interesting read.