
We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates confounds & on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather but how much do we really know about it? In Bring Me Sunshine Charlie Connelly sets off on the trail of our island obsession. He breezes through the lives of meteorological eccentrics geniuses rainmakers & cloud-busters & brings vividly to life great weather events from history. He sheds light on Britains weirdest wind why we have the wettest place in England to thank for the trusty pencil the debt that umbrella owners owe to Robinson Crusoe & why people once thought firing cannons at clouds was a great idea. Having adventured round the shipping forecast areas for his bestselling Attention All Shipping Connelly is the perfect guide through a melange of gales blizzards mists heatwaves & the occasional shower of fish. By turns informative entertaining & hilarious Bring Me Sunshine answers all your weather questions as well as helping you to distinguish your graupel from your petrichor.