Weather and Climate New Zealand

Description

Title: Weather and Climate New Zealand
Author: Sandra Carrod (graphics by Karsten Schneider)
Publisher: Oratia Books (The NZ Series), 2022
Format: Paperback
Condition: Excellent – as new

New from $29.99. Save $15 on the cover price. Shortlisted, NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2023 — Non-Fiction Elsie Locke Award.

Description:

New Zealand sits in one of the most meteorologically interesting positions on Earth — an island nation in the middle of the Southern Ocean, directly in the path of the Roaring Forties, with a mountainous spine that splits and shapes every weather system that crosses it. Understanding why our weather is the way it is turns out to require understanding the whole planet.

Weather and Climate New Zealand is part of the NZ Series from Oratia Books — illustrated, fact-packed, curriculum-facing non-fiction for intermediate- and high-school readers. Sandra Carrod covers the full range: how to read a weather map, the difference between climate and weather, how global atmospheric circulation works, what El Niño does to our seasons, how tropical cyclones form, why glaciers are retreating, and what the climate crisis means for Aotearoa specifically. Graphics by Karsten Schneider (with a doctorate in marine science) give visual life to systems that are easier to understand in motion or diagram than in words alone. Data is drawn from NIWA and MetService — the authoritative NZ sources.

The final chapter on the climate crisis positions this not just as a science reference but as a climate literacy resource for young people growing up in the middle of the thing it describes.

Shortlisted for the Non-Fiction Elsie Locke Award at the 2023 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults.

Why We Stock It:

For homeschooling families, secondary school students, and anyone wanting a solid NZ-specific grounding in how our weather and climate actually work. Sandra Carrod has been writing award-winning NZ weather non-fiction for years; this is her most comprehensive treatment of the subject.