first event in our fall University of Michigan Press Author Series coming up next week, and it's a big one: Paul Gross, meteorologist at WDIV-TV (the NBC affiliate in Detroit), will be speaking about his new book Extreme Michigan Weather: The Wild World of the Great Lakes State. His talk will be followed by a book sale and signing. Paul has been the team meteorologist for several of Detroit's professional sports teams, in addition to his many on-camera meteorologist duties.

 

Who: Paul Gross, local weather celebrity

What: Free talk, sale, and signing

When: Tuesday, September 14, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Hatcher Graduate Library Galley/Room 100 on central campus (facing the Diag), University of Michigan; map at www.press.umich.edu/map

More information on the talk: 734-615-6477 or newmanh@umich.edu

More information on the book: www.press.umich.edu/mediakits

From brrrr to hothothot! New book by meteorologist Paul Gross

Michigan's weather, record-breaking storms and temperatures, and how they happen

described in new title from The University of Michigan Press

 

Extreme Michigan Weather

The Wild World of the Great Lakes State

By Paul Gross

Paper: 978-0-472-03413-0/ $24.95

Publication Date: June 2010

 

 

Michigan's weather is a notoriously fickle, dramatic phenomenon, ranging from 100+ degrees and drought, to wildly swinging temperatures and hail, to a dozen degrees below zero and blizzards. No other topic dominates conversation in the Great Lakes State more than what's going on outside the window, and no book better describes how it happens than Extreme Michigan Weather.

 

Paul Gross, meteorologist for the NBC affiliate in Detroit, describes some of the state's most dramatic storms, record-breaking days, and general weather trends. He touches on everything from tornadoes to global warming, and gives record highs, lows, and precipitation for each day of the year for 22 Michigan cities, making this not only an entertaining read but a reference book you'll want to keep handy.

 

Extreme Michigan Weather goes on sale in June 2010 in paperback for $24.95. It was entirely written, published, and printed in the state of Michigan. For a full press kit on the book, or for interviews with the author, please contact Heather Newman (below).