Michigan-based author and editor Hile has written a number of books on a wide range of subjects. His updated text offers students, teachers, and general readers an informative and entertaining reference on a topic we all talk about: weather. Presented in a question-and-answer format and illustrated with some 100 color photographs and reproductions, the text contains some 1,000 questions organized into 11 thematic sections: weather fundamentals; the atmosphere; heat and cold; clouds and precipitation; stormy weather; atmospheric phenomena; geography, oceanography, and weather; weather in space; humanity and the weather; climate change; and modern meteorology. Revisions from the first to second edition are not stated. Distributed by Independent Publishers Group. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)