Summer Weather (Seasonal weather)

by JohnMason (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $11.89

  This is one of a series of books describing the different types of seasonal weather.The books cover the characteristics of weather in different parts of the world as well as general weather topics as appropriate to each season. Environmental issues which affect the climate are discussed and there is a series of practical experiments that children can do in relation to measuring or observing the weather. This book concentrates on the type of weather associated with summer, why it occurs, how it affects people's lives and what summer conditions are like in different parts of the world. This includes deserts, temperate regions and tropical lands. This book also shows how rain, hail, thunder and lightening are formed, as well as tornadoes and waterspouts which cross land and sea. There is a section which shows the environmental effect that global warming has on the planet.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $7.72

  How the weather changes from one season to the next has an important effect on most people's lives. This illustrated series of books describes and explains the type of weather associated with each season of the year. International in outlook, the books cover the important characteristics of weather in different parts of the world as well as general weather topics as appropriate to each season. Topical environmental issues which affect climate are discussed, and there is a series of practical experiments that children can do in relation to measuring or observing the weather. This book describes the type of weather associated with winter, and why such weather occurs. Winter usually means a season of long, dark evenings, ice and snow. In this book the author explains why such weather occurs, including the formation of clouds, fog and frosts. It shows how the seasons happen, and what parts of the world experience winter weather. Covering both the nothern and southern hemisphere, it describes winter in the temperate regions of the world, and bitterly cold winters near the poles. It highlights any particularly interesting or unusual weather that is experienced in winter. The book shows how winter weather is forecasted and discusses the changing climate of the Earth in the past and predicts the future.