Author(s): Ring, Ken

NZ non-fiction

Farmers, fishermen, gardeners, skiers and anyone who works outdoors or just wants to know what the weather is going to do cannot be without Ken Ring's Predict Weather almanac for 2011. The 2011 almanac has the same essential features as the 2010 version, with day-per-page forecasts including gardening advice and moon position information, as well as isobaric, rain potential and frost/snow maps. New features include likely wind activity and for the gardener, biodynamic planting guides. For the fisherman, there are daily best bite times and a rating from poor to excellent. There is also a ski season summary. Ken's sometimes controversial method of predicting weather by the cycles of the moon has attracted a wide following and has an amazingly high strike rate for reliability, as evidenced by the many endorsements from users.