Wind and Weather

In Athens, a small temple once measured time with water and sunlight—and gave the winds carved faces, names, and distinct tempers. One carries hailstones; another arrives with flowers in his arms.

Alexander McAdie begins at the Tower of the Winds, built more than two thousand years ago beside the Acropolis, then turns to the modern forecaster’s map of pressure, temperature, and moving air. Writing in the early twentieth century, the meteorologist follows winds from ancient legend into the science of storms and climate: the cold gusts of Boreas, the warm rains of Notos, the currents that make one side of the Atlantic unlike the other. But a weather map’s arrows show only part of the air’s motion. What is the wind doing above the ground?

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