The Pocket Cloud Book Updated Edition

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I don't post reviews enough...but had to review this book as soon as I got it. Basically agrreing with a previous reviewer on the poor layout. This could have been an excellent book..but the layout makes it very difficult to follow. This is basically a warning to anyone interested in clouds...don't buy this book thinking it will be your only cloud book.To try and explain a little better...you hold the book on its side..like a flip book. so you have the cover in front of you..you lift the bottom of the cover up to go to the next page..a cover page is facing you, then another cover page, then the contents, then the forward. Everything is ok so far. Then you flip up and the next page is the introduction. Flip this to go to the next page..but its not there..the next page is upside down on the back of the page you just flipped up. So you have to turn the book around to read the next page. Then turn the book around to read the next page....then turn the book around to see the next page and so on. It reminds me of me trying to make a book in first grade.Then there is the 'tab' issue. The book is divided into low, medium and high clouds...and the pages have color tabs. The only problem is that all the tabs are green! Every page in this book has a green tab! So why even have tabs?But after all that, there is a lot of good information and some very nice pictures.Just don't expect to use it in the field as a quick reference manual.

The product is great... not just at home, but when I travel with kids. I can point at a cloud while watching the road on a long trip and ask them to look it up or just tell me what kind it is... The interaction is good and we continue watching clouds when camping. Can do it at the park or at home, too.

This book has everything a normal person would ever want to know about clouds and probably alot of information most people don't. Virtually every page in this book has beautifull color pictures of the clouds currently being discussed. Every cloud has a latin name and scientic symbol that needs to be learned to carry on through the book. Would be good for reference use but not a good book to just sit down and thumb through.

Beautiful photography. Written for a cloud, meteorolgy enthusiast/hobbyist I made it my coffee table book. I love it.

Harmony and serenity personified. Utterly stunning, our natural world, right in front of us, stunning quality, speaks to the Buddhist tenet that we have all we need right in front of us. I look at it each morning and evening when I sit in my garden. Brings solace to a dear friend who just lost his wife to cancer.

I used this book along with others to develop a lesson plan to teach a course on weather to local pilots. Amazon.com has a wide range of books new and preowned for reference to writing, learning or enjoyment.

This book has great information covering clouds. It covers the different genera of clouds, as well as the species. I cannot complain about the information at all. I am even using a great amount of information for a research paper I am writing.Where this book goes horribly wrong was in its layout. It is not laid out like a normal book. Open a book, rotated it 90 degrees and there you go... When there is literature on both pages you have to turn the book 180 degrees to read the other side. What were they smoking when the decided to lay it out like this....Must have been high in the clouds...

A useful introductionThis book is a useful introduction to the observation of clouds, and is well illustrated. It starts with a historical review of meteorology, and then goes into the classification and types of clouds, with photographs and accompanying text. Very much a coffee-table book, and one perhaps designed to be glanced through rather than actually read in detail.Photographs are very good, almost without exception. The exceptions include the various references to 'lenticular' clouds, where the illustrations are almost unrecognisable as such. Far better photos of this spectacular phenomenon are to be found on the Internet. Perhaps the problem is that the editor has chosen photographs from the British Isles, whereas the best examples are to be found in the Canadian Rockies..The text could be better, both in presentation and in content. First, it is not comfortable to read unless you have the most acute eyesight. The font selected seems to be Calibri Light, size 9, in a grey ink rather than a black one. This is small enough to allow one quarter, sometimes two quarters, of the page to be left blank, thus turning the layout into a pretty pattern that nicely balances the full page photograph opposite. It becomes even prettier when the off-white background is sometimes replaced by a faded shot of a cloudy sky; but it does make it more difficult to read.The book does not pretend to go into the science of cloud formation in any detail, and covers the basic processes quite well, but more information would sometimes have been welcome. Given, for example, the strongly rhythmic appearance of mackerel skies and herringbone clouds, the reader feels there must be some strong underlying force responsible for this, but he is left wondering as to its nature.

I bought this book for my dad who was in a residential home. Prior to buying this book we use to watch clouds from the conservatory. This was the perfect present for him - and me. We had lots of fun trying to identify clouds and it was amazing what we learned. Sadly my dad died recently but I have left the book at the residential home for others to enjoy.

Blatantly copied from my review of the pocket version of this book. This version has bigger and better photographs but would need a bigger pocket!If you've ever wondered aloud what sort of cloud was drifting across your field of vision as you lay back in your garden lounger. If you've ever seen clouds rolling in as you pass the point of no-return between your house and the pub and wondered if you should have brought a coat. If you've got fed up with other 'spotting' hobbies because the focus of your hobby keeps flying or buzzing away before you can get an identification book out. Then cloud spotting and this book is for you.The guide is very logically laid out with each cloud having its own section. There's a handy quick reference bit at the front with small pictures of clouds and the pages you need to turn to for a more detailed identification. Each section has a description of what a particular cloud can tell you about the weather due to come your way. The clarity of the text and the layout is only rivalled by the pocket version but this wins due to the larger but less pocket friendly layout..I've bought several copies for other people of the pocket version who, upon seeing my copy, have asked for their own. There's quite a group of us at work across the world who now are members of the cloud spotting fraternity and have copies of that book. We all have this book now as well! I can't help but feel that this is how loony cults develop!Buy this book and join us!

My husband and I often comment on strange clouds we see, or the different types of clouds, and we have said so many times that we should get a book so that we know what we are looking at!This book fit the bill nicely, we have both enjoyed reading this separately, and together.The photos make identifying what we have seen, really easy and there is a nice explanation next to each photo to explain what the formation is called and how it is formed.This is an excellent book to provide an overview of clouds for the interested novice!

After an experience I can only describe as miraculous, I noticed that at times, looking at the sky, and slowing my natural rhythm to that of the clouds floating across the sky helped ground me in the truer aspects of life. I wanted to have my own real Cloud Atlas (not the fiction story by the same name, though I found the film to be far better and truly amazing) to look at. It is filled with beautiful photographs and simple but informative descriptions of the different types of clouds, which doesn't necessarily interest me a lot, but it's nice to have a name for that pretty cloud that changed your mood.