Something in the Air - A Four-Season Guide to Our Health and the Weather

Something in the Air is a conversational, historical, clinical, and factual tour of the science of biometeorology, addressing what is known about weather-health interaction and separating reality from folklore. Author and veteran Philadelphia Inquirer weather writer. Anthony R. Wood. takes readers on a comprehensive exploration of the history and state of seasonal conditions.

About the author

In more than 35 years as a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Anthony R. Wood has written on a broad menu of subjects, including taxes, dangerous coastal development, and the changing oceans. Wood has been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes four times. He was co-author of the series, Crisis on the Coast, published as a book, which warned five years before Katrina that an epochal hurricane disaster was inevitable. He has won numerous awards, including a National Association of Science Writers citation for his series on the Gulf Stream and a Society of Professional Journalists award for environmental writing.
He is the author of Snow: A History of the World's Most Fascinating Flake, a treatise on the history, science and cultural impacts of snow. He writes frequently about weather and was the author of a popular series on biometeorology, and much of the material in Something in the Air is drawn from personal experience.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony R Wood, Anthony R. Wood
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9781633889965
• ISBN: 978-1-63388-996-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HEALTH & FITNESS / Allergies, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, NATURE / Seasons, Holidays & seasonal interest, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Weather, Weather and climate: general interest, Seasonal interest, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General