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WMUR-TV Meteorologist Josh Judge and teacher Kathe Cussen with their newly released weather book “Weather Facts and Fun” geared towards New Hampshire’s elementary school children and educators
By KATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS Thursday, December 3, 2009 found at cabinet.com
MILFORD – What is predicted to be the new comprehensive book called “Weather Facts & Fun” was greeted with sunny smiles at a recent book signing in Milford.
Popular WMUR-TV Channel 9 meteorologist Josh Judge co-authored a book for children and educators about the weather. Award-winning science teacher Kathe Cussen was his co-author and added her classroom and teaching experience to enhance Judge’s weather expertise.
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Judge had wanted to write a weather book for years but it was not until
after he wrote the foreword for “Black Ice” about the 2008 ice storm that he
got a nudge to pursue his dream.
As a meteorologist, he frequently visits local school to discuss weather forecasting and a teacher once mentioned there are not many good books to help teacher weather. Judge and his wife, Donna, thought it was a good idea to include their friend, Cussen, an award-winning science teacher at Hampstead Middle School, into the project to help guide the book to their target audience, New Hampshire students and educators.
About two years ago the state of New Hampshire mandated a weather unit in the state’s education curriculum for elementary students. Cussen researched the state requirements but found a lack of comprehensive books to teach weather and that teachers would have to pull together a weather unit from multiple sources. That factor was taken into consideration when the duo teamed up to write a home-grown book about weather that meets all the teaching requirements for grades 2-6 and teachers were waiting in line to get their copies hot off the press.
“We wanted to support Josh plus this book covers our fourth-grade curriculum and activities so it’s a win-win situation. We had Josh visit our school in the past at the completion of our weather units. This book will be in our classrooms tomorrow,” said Sheila Haven, a teacher at James Mastricola Elementary School in Merrimack.
But the book is not just for teachers. In fact, you’ll find it in the juvenile science section of Toadstool Bookshops because it’s a children’s book with easy-to-read-and- understand facts and activities to learn more about weather, weather predictions and technology.
Judge and Cussen included weather symbols, weather plotting, terms, facts, charts, photographs, maps, illustrations and even included remote censoring such as Doppler radar and so much more so the book can cover the state of New Hampshire education requirements.
“It’s filled with lots of facts so old, young and people interested in weather can enjoy this book,” Judge said.
“Every teacher who has seen it so far loves the book,” Cussen said.
The end of each chapter has “Chapter Challenges,” which encourage the reader to further explore what was just discussed. For example, how to make a simple outdoor anemometer, observe cloud shapes and illustrate them or list songs that have weather words in them such as “Let it Snow.”
“Weather Facts and Fun” is about the weather right outside your door in New Hampshire (and New England). It discussed the weather that applies to this region and it also has included actual drawings and questions from New Hampshire children such as “Why do hurricanes have names?,” which a boy in Greenfield asked, or “Is it possible to have a thunderstorm, a hurricane and a tornado at the same time?” from a girl in Candia. Judge answers these questions with down-to-earth language children and adults can understand. Plus they provide weather facts that can be helpful and though provoking such as “Where do you think is the safest place to be when a thunderstorm is nearby?”
The book provides many links that readers can further explore weather and science as well as hosting their own site to further explore the concepts in the book called www.weatherfactsandfun.com
“We really based the book here in New Hampshire and New England. There are no plans of going national with it. We’re starting out marketing it to New Hampshire and may expand to all of New England, but that’s it. This is a book written especially for New England kids,” said Judge.
The project was started in April and Judge had the assignment to just write about weather. He didn’t review any literature or books before sitting down to write because he wanted the content to be his own.
Cussen told him not to worry about punctuation or grammar to just write from his heart and head and she would finish it up. At times they would spend an hour just discussing the correct word or term to use to make something more understandable. It was a labor of love so the project went quickly and by August they were in the editing process. In fact, Judge was making final edits while on a trip to Russia where he and his wife adopted a 2-year old girl. The graphics were done right at WMUR-TV.
People have a love-hate relationship with weather but love to talk about it. Judge did relay one interesting story about the power of weather and he called it his “big powerful moment” in TV weather forecasting where, as the 5 a.m. newscast began, there were only three school closings as a snowstorm approached. After going on-the-air with his first weather brief and telling the audience that within an hour a major snowstorm will hit, the school closing list went from three schools to 580 closing in about three minutes.
The book signing on Nov. 8 at Toadstool Bookshops in Milford was a big success with many fans coming out to meet Judge and Cussen and the hour-long discussion and book signing was extended so all the customers waiting in line could meet them and have their copy autographed.
All 70 copies on-hand that day were sold within an hour but a new shipment of books arrived.
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