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.
- ISBN10 1852109424
- ISBN13 9781852109424
- Publish Date 31 October 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Wayland
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English