Meteorology and Agricultural Proverbs

Author: Yan Guanghua
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Publishing Date: 1999-10-01
Features: This book collects 279 proverbs related to short-term weather changes. It explains the formation, causes, and the entire process of development, evolution, and disappearance of weather phenomena mentioned in these proverbs, such as halos, coronas, rainbows, fog, morning glories, frost, clouds, thunder, rain, lightning, hail, wind, and typhoons. It further interprets the intrinsic meanings of these proverbs. Additionally, the book provides annotations for some commonly used weather forecast terms to help a broad readership understand their true meanings when listening to weather forecasts. This book can serve as a reference for meteorologists, hydrologists, oceanographers, seismologists, foresters, as well as farmers and fishermen.