Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena Author:William R. Corliss Science is able to explain almost all the physical universe, but there are still some perplexing mysteries among us, some conundrums for which modern science just has no answers. The Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena collects more than 500 eyewitness accounts of nature's greatest mysteries, all of them documented in major scientific... more » journals. Compiled from the files of such magazines as Science, Nature, and Meteorological Magazine, this astounding collection serves as an authoritative guide to nature's most strange -- but true -- phenomena.
Experience colored snow; showers composed of such unlikely objects as fish, or snakes, or toads; rolling balls of lightening; cloudless rain; rain that sparkles; maverick waterspouts; tides out of the moon's control; unexplained bursts of noise near water, called mist-pouffer; and hundreds of other bizarre occurrences.
The Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena is not just for science buffs. It will fascinate everyone with its clear accounts of the mysteries that occur in what we choose to think of as our ordinary, everyday world.« less