The Met Office Pocket Cloud Book

If you've ever wondered aloud what sort of cloud was drifting across your field of vision as you lay back in your garden lounger. If you've ever seen clouds rolling in as you pass the point of no-return between your house and the pub and wondered if you should have brought a coat. If you've got fed up with other 'spotting' hobbies because the focus of your hobby keeps flying or buzzing away before you can get an identification book out. Then cloud spotting and this book is for you. The guide is very logically laid out with each cloud having its own section. There's a handy quick reference bit at the front with small pictures of clouds and the pages you need to turn to for a more detailed identification. Each section has a description of what a particular cloud can tell you about the weather due to come your way. This is one of the clearest and best laid out books, of its type, I have ever seen. I've bought several copies for other people who, upon seeing my copy, have asked for their own. There's quite a group of us at work across the world who now are members of the cloud spotting fraternity and have copies of this book. I can't help but feel that this is how loony cults start! Buy this book and join us!

An excellent concise but comprehensive book on the various types of clouds and the variations within those classes clouds that gives the reader a useful, informative guide to "cloud-spotting. Sadly the book does not appear to give any information on the latest (and rare) type of cloud to receive official status - that of the lurid and spectacular Undulatus Asperatus cloud formation

Clear explanations and beautiful pictures of most types of clouds

If you want to know about clouds and you're a begginer like me it's a pretty comprehensive, nice to follow book. It's in a really handy size too - my office is two floors up and I can see a lot of the skyline, so I can whip this out for quick reference if I want. Would recommend, even if not a beginner, as it's a good reference guide. Also my Grandma flicked through it, read out 'cumulus humilis', and said it sounded rude. Cheers for the lols Richard Hamblyn.

i bought this book for my self and the wife as we have a motorhome and we see all sorts of clouds and quite often we wondered what sort they were. now we know because we have the book and we find it intresting and very informitive and worth every penney. so if you wonder what they are BUY THE BOOK.

An excellent pocket sized book full of well organised facts and explanations along with numerous colour photographs making spotting individual cloud types and weather interpretations very easy.

Good cloud classification guide. Good structure and more detailed in this than other books. Also liked the classification symbols.

As said it fits in your pocket and is good but now,having become a bit of a cloud fan and being a total newbie at it I've found there are more accessible books available which include much more information which for me is really useful. So I have this, the Collins Gem and the Cloud spotters guide which give me a broad field of information to fill in the gaps that this book has in that in comparison I find it rather dry. I hope that in the future this handy reference will come completely into it's own. The reference pictures at the front are already particularly useful I would recommend it whole heartedly but a little foreknowledge would help in my opinion. And some time later having bought a couple of other 'cloud' books this one has come into it's own. I can only speak for myself but the various classifications can be really confusing without the basic (and I mean basic as in coming from a place of no knowledge) underpinnings and that was what I lacked.

Small, hardbound book, bought to complement Gavin Pretor-Pinney's The Cloudspotter's Guide and Cloud Collector's Handbook. Straightforward descriptions of clouds, and lots of pictures (nearly every page has one, and most pictures occupy about half a page for easy viewing). While there is a 2-page quick reference to the book's various cloud types , it does lack some sort of step-by-step chart to help you differentiate what kind of cloud(s) are currently overhead.

Este livro é excelente. Ando sempre com ele no bolso, e muitos dos meus alunos também já o compraram.

Everyone who is interested in the clouds and in identifying the clouds, should have this book. The book gives a lot of information about the clouds and it helps you to identify them.

I love this book. Charming and helpful.