"So Cold a Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories" is a collection of short stories about weather in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from the early settlers to modern weather events.

Karl Bohnak, Chief Meteorologist for WLUC TV-6 in Marquette, MI, is enthusiastic about the history of the Upper Peninsula and it's exciting weather happenings from huge snow storms to heat waves and has compiled some of this interesting weather information into his book, "So Cold a Sky".

"So Cold a Sky" contains short stories about the early settlers and the hardships they faced making a home in this rugged land and true tales of notable modern weather events in the Upper Peninsula. The book is packed full of interesting weather facts, photographs, and maps.

* Father Marquette's legendary trip across Lake Superior

 

* Stories of early settlers in this rugged wilderness in the 1820's & 1830's

 

* Life during the Mining Boom in the 1840's and 1850's.

 

* Father Baraga, the Snowshoe Priest and his voyages through the untamed wilderness.

 

* Interesting oral histories are included in the above chapters.

* Snowstorms: The Upper Peninsula is famous for snow- read about some of these incredible storms.

 

* Blizzards, arctic blasts, and cold waves.

 

* Huge snowfalls and late season snows . . . yes, even in May & June.

 

* Summer heat waves, thunder storms, & hail storms.

 

* Wildfires including the great Peshtigo WI fire that jumped into the U.P. and forest fires through the years.

 

* The 2003 Dead River Flood near Marquette

 

* Wild winds & autumn gales.

 

* A new look at the storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald.

"So Cold a Sky-Upper Michigan Weather Stories" contains short stories and weather facts along with over 200 photographs and about 100 maps in this 7"x10", 352-page soft cover book. Pen and ink illustrations by Elizabeth Yelland introduce the chapters.

Cold Sky Publishing
P.O. Box 228
Negaunee, MI 49866
Phone: (906)-475-7942

E-mail: kbohnak@chartermi.net
or yellabeth@gmail.com

Pen & ink drawings by Elizabeth Yelland introduce the chapters in "So Cold a Sky". Note cards with these illustrations may be purchased online at www.upweatherhistory.com

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