Wait five minutes : weatherlore in the twenty-first century /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ingram, Shelley, 1979- (Editor), Mullins, Willow (Willow G.) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Subjects:	Weather > Folklore. Weather forecasting. Meteorology. Meteorologists. Climatic changes. Global environmental change. Floods > Environmental aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: and now, the weather
Introduction: the sky is telling it
Chapter 1. Divergent weatherlore in Christian hermeneutics: climate change and vernacular rhetoric in our current environmental crisis / Emma Frances Bloomfield and Sheila Bock
Chapter 2. "Of biblical proportions": flood motifs in personal narratives of Katrina survivors / Kate Parker Horigan
Chapter 3. In the bones: prognostication and weather in the twenty-first century / Willow G. Mullins
Chapter 4. Contrails to chemtrails: atmospheric scientists respond to challenging belief narratives / Anne Pryor
Chapter 5. From clockwork weatherman to atomic environmentalist / Máirt Hanley
Introduction: the romance of the weather
Chapter 6: The world of sensible seasons had come undone": climate change and regional folklore in Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight behavior" / Hannah Chapple
Chapter 7. Early modern special snowflakes / Christine Hoffmann
Chapter 8. Mothering the storm: Black girlhood and communal care in literature of Katrina
Jennifer Morrison and Shelley Ingram
Chapter 9: "You don't need a weatherman": Bob Dylan's windlore / James I. Deutsch
Chapter 10: "I'll never forget the thunderstorm of 1960, I think it was": storm stories
/ Lena Marander-Eklund
Introduction: feeding the storm
Chapter 11. Framing the flood: strategic environmental storytelling in Appalachia
/ Jordan Lovejoy
Chapter 12. Weathering the storm: folk ideas about character
/ John Laudun
Chapter 13: It always rains on a picnic: weatherlore and community narrative at St. Patrick's Irish picnic and homecoming / Kristen Bradley
Chapter 14. The folk wisdom of lawns / Todd Richardson
Chapter 15. Canning for the apocalypse: climate change, zombies, and the early twenty-first-century canning renaissance / Claire Schmidt
About the contributors
Index.