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Pick of the week. --Bill Murray WeatherBrains

Pick of the week. --Bill Murray WeatherBrains Asheville's 96-year-old first-time author goes to court. . . . Haggard discusses his rich, colorful, and dynamic experiences as a forensic meteorologist. His expertise as a courtroom meteorologist draws the reader into fascinating cases of related accidents ranging from commercial aviation to 'slips and falls.' --Citizen-Times For fans of the television series Law and Order, this is the weather book for you. Start with a weather-related crime (or accident), follow it with the gathering of evidence, a jury trial--often with combative lawyers and breath-holding evidence, and then wrap it all up with a verdict. Add in the twist that the gumshoe detective collecting evidence isn't a brash badge-wearing Sergeant Friday, but instead a conscientious details-orient meteorologist, often helicoptering into the scene months later, sniffing the wind and then tunneling through tomes of weather data. All together you get a very different take on classic courtroom drama. Here the weather is brought inside and put on the stand. --Canadian Meteorological Oceanographic Society

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William H. Haggard is a former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center, a certified consulting meteorologist, and a fellow and honorary member of the American Meteorological Society.

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