From the beginning of the first chapter:
By profession I'm a television-weather forecaster, not an author. I'm much more at home on your TV screen than I am between the covers of a book. So why am I, Tex Antoine, here, making myself uncomfortable in a strange medium? Well, everyone likes to talk about his own profession, I suppose. I just can't turn myself off when I get started on cold fronts and hurricanes. But a knowledge of the weather is interesting and it is important. Interesting because... well, you'll just have to see for yourself as you read on. Important because weather affects each and every one of us.
Not only does weather determine what kind of clothes we're going to wear, and what we work at and play at, but it has a great deal to do with the food we eat and even the kind of house we live in. Weather has turned the tide of battle in great wars. Long-range weather, climate, has been responsible for whole nations moving or staying put. Weather has leveled mountains, created deserts, nurtured forests. Astronauts talk about the weather. Baseball players talk about the weather. I talk about the weather. Won't you join us?
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