Discovering El Nino: How Fable and Fact Together Help Explain the Weather By Patricia Seibert

Patricia Seibert Á 7 summary

Traces the weather phenomenon known as El Ni no from its first observation near Peruvian fishing villages to more recent appearances, discussing how scientists monitor it and how it affects other aspects of the weather. Discovering El Nino: How Fable and Fact Together Help Explain the Weather

This is a story of how Peruvian fishermen and scientists discovered and wrote about the warmer waters of the sea during what they called El Niño. Then Sir Gilbert Walker, a scientist from Great Britain, studied monsoons in India and found that weather all around the world had a cause and effect relationship. He began writing about the Southern Oscillation.

Many years later, we now know these weather patterns and we can more accurately predict weather. This book is a factual account, an explanation, for those who want to know more about weather and weather phenomena.

Recommended for ages 10 and up. This would be a good book to house in a middle school science classroom.
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