The Weather Factor : How Nature Has Changed History

About this book

Despite major improvements in collecting information and forecasting the weather the factor of the unpredictable is as real today as it was in days when Noah was forced to set sail on the ark. Floods have drowned millions droughts and famines have wiped out entire populations frost has brought a sudden halt to invincible armies and storms have sunk unsinkable armadas. When man comes to face natures elements it is not so much human incompetence as the uncertainty of the weather that leads on to disaster.