Weather Books

Not for the mathematically faint at heart, but an excelent tome on the mathematics describing weather as they existed at the time of publication. If you want to have a feel for how weather prediction by computer works, this is a good resource.

I really liked the illustrations, because they went so well with the words. It is written just the way I remembered Fall when I was younger. I would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys nature and ever jumped into a pile of leaves.

Sue Walker's long book-length poem that consists of an imagined conversation with the late Carson McCullers where both women share their stories is a very original way to cover the subject matter: her own life, a tribute to a woman and a writer she admires, and just commenting on Southern life. Each of the "Conecuh Series" books is worth reading, all are fairly short in length, and this one is the best one for fans of poetry.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It helped me understand about the weather. It explained many things and gave a lot of fun experiments to do and charts to look at. The information was shocking (lightning, get it?)! I truly loved this book. I am 11 years old.

It's Winter is the third book in a highly recommended series of four titles on the various seasons, and is packed with insights about winter, beautiful cut-paper art work, and suggestions for activities to enhance an appreciation of the season. All this comes in the form of a first-person story of a girl who observes and appreciates the pleasures of winter.

John Constable is arguably one of the finest painters in the history of British art. John Constable's Skies: A Fusion Of Art And Science is an impressive compilation of his sky and weather paintings, against which John Thornes (Reader in Applied Meteorology and Director of the Atmospheric Impacts Research Group within the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham) provides an extensive and informative meteorological framework for reading "the skies of landscape art". Thornes analyses Constable's meteorological understanding and enhances our understanding and appreciation for what Constable was able to achieve with his art. John Constable's Skies is essential reading for all John Constable enthusiasts, and an important contribution to study of British art history.

I am a native Spanish speaker. I've been reading this book in Spanish to my granddaughter who just turned 1 year old. The pictures, colors and expressions on the faces are terrific. The different cultures and races portrayed playing together and outside are delightful. Although this book is rated for more advanced ages, I found that my granddaughter now pays very close attention, smiles, and copies the faces as I read along. For example, "Hacemos pucheros." This book will be fun for her for some time. I look forward to when it rains and she can actually say, "Jugamos en los charcos que forma la lluvia."

Excellent introduction to sunshine and its effects on weather and seasons. Good photos and easy to read text in Spanish and English. There is a glossary and index. Karen Woodworth-Roman, Children's Science Book Review

Written by expert limnologist and former director of the Center for Great Lakes Studies Clifford Mortimer, Lake Michigan In Motion: Responses Of An Inland Sea To Weather, Earth-Spin, And Human Activities is a detailed, scholarly, and scientific examination of Lake Michigan. Black-and-white photographs, charts, and diagrams illustrate chapters covering the history of scientific inquiry into Lake Michigan's physicality, water levels and flows, seasonal cycles of heating/cooling and layering/mixing, lake currents, categories and models of waves, models in action, and much more. A background in basic calculus and environmental physics is presumed in this scrutiny of how multiple factors fro glaciers, wind, and weather to human public policy and polition have and continue to influence Lake Michigan. A superb resource for college libraries and Great Lakes Region environmental studies shelves.

The Changing Seasons explains why there are different seasons in a very simple, elegant way. The experiments are fun and easy to do. I will be using this book to explain seasons to my elemantary grade students. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand why we have seasons.