Weather Facts and Fun

You can learn more about the author at joshjudge.com   Weather Facts and Fun is an interactive, educational, fun look at weather by one of New England's pre-eminent meteorologists, Josh Judge and award-winning NH schoolteacher Kathe Cussen. Written in a manner meant to be understandable to 7-11 year olds, the ninety-eight pages in the book even offer adults information that they may not have known before - for instance, the difference between sleet and hail. Over ninety pictures (many in full-color) show weather at its most beautiful and most destructive. Two foldout maps in the back and challenges at the end of each chapter offer readers the chance to learn about the weather while doing fun activities. For instance, you can learn how to preserve snowflakes forever with two common household items! Concentrating on New Hampshire and New England weather, the book meets or exceeds all NH teaching requirements and recommendations. However, the lessons and activities in the book are also meant to be relevant and educational anywhere. Author and former PBS host Richard Lederer writes the foreword for the book. Weather Facts and Fun is sure to delight kids, please teachers and be a welcome addition to any household with curious children.

Josh Judge (learn more at joshjudge.com) is a meteorologist at WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH. His forecasts reach over 670,500 people in New Hampshire and surrounding states. Josh joined the station as a part time employee in April 2001, while he also worked on-air at WHDH-TV in Boston, and WGME-TV in Portland, Maine. Josh then became full-time at WMUR in 2003. He received the CBM seal (Certified Broadcast Meteorologist seal from the AMS) in 2006, and he was among the first few in New England to get it. Josh got into broadcasting when he was 12 years old and by the time he was in his senior year of high school, he already had his own radio show. While in college, he worked in Boston radio as a DJ and a helicopter traffic reporter. He then spent eight years hosting a radio morning show New Hampshire's, on Seacoast 102 WZEA (where he won the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters' Air Personality of the Year award in 1993) and later on ARROW 105.3 FM. After that, Josh returned to college to learn about weather forecasting and meteorology. Josh was voted Best TV Weathercaster in the New Hampshire Magazine readers poll in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 and has received several other awards as well, including the 2008 Golden Mike Award from the NH Association of Broadcasters. Josh, his wife, Donna, their son, Adam, and adopted daughter Adelina live in southern New Hampshire. He enjoys spending time with his family, and his interests include playing tennis, skiing, boating, aviation, and working around the house. A little known fact about Josh is that his father sang the theme song on the original TV show, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Kathe Cussen is a science teacher at Hampstead (NH) Middle School, and she was voted NH's 2002 Environmental Educator of the Year.