HALF science primer and half holiday planner, the Rough Guide to the Weather (Rough Guides, £10.99) is a gem. From flash foods to fluid dynamics, meteorologist Robert Henson fields every likely question on the weather before launching into a country-by-country description of what to expect, when and why. Brisk and authoritative for all weather consumers, whether sun seeker or tornado chaser.
From the weather outsice to the weather inside. In Air-Conditioning America (Johns Hopkins, £14) historian of technology Gail Cooper takes a sly look at how US engineers answered Mark Twain’s charge that “everyone talks about the weather but nobody…
