Whether there's a tropical heat wave or a chill in the air, whether there's rain, sleet, or snow, have some meteorological fun while learning about everything from hurricanes to sunny blue skies. How can you fly above the weather? What are the lowest and highest temperatures ever recorded on earth--and the solar system? How can you convert Celsius to Fahrenheit? What causes lightning and thunder? How do you read a weather map? Along with these cool facts, try some really great experiments: with plastic cups, sand, water, and a thermometer, check and see whether the land or sea changes temperature faster. Or, get blown away with a homemade anemometer that measures wind speed. Create clouds in a jar. Plus: amazing trivia-including the day it rained frogs in Kansas City.

 

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Sterling Juvenile .

Michael A. DiSpezio conducts workshops for teachers throughout the world. He has co-authored more than two dozen science textbooks and has worked for clients such as the Discovery Channel and MTV. Rob DeSalle is a curator in the Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History. He works on molecular evolution, conservation genetics and evolutionary genomics of a wide array of life forms ranging from plants to all kinds of insects, reptiles and mammals.