We all like to discuss the weather, but what real impact does it have on our lives? Does it make us hardy and resourceful, or shape a region's character? And what of future climate change for the South? In Big Weather South, Dave Cull's robust, colourful prose captures our dramatic weather events: floods, droughts, gales, snowstorms and boiling seas. He examines our island location, and answers questions about the genesis of fog, frost, cold fronts and thunderstorms - with Maori tales enriching the narrative throughout. The reader is blown across the South's coastal regions, the mountains and hill country, the plains and basins, and exposed to violent weather events of the past. With breathtaking colour photographs by the award-winning team at the Otago Daily Times, Dave Cull offers weather watchers vigorous insight into Southern weather.

Author Biography

Dave Cull is a former television presenter, columnist and writer. He's written several books about subjects ranging from lifestyle to vineyards to icebergs. He has a keen interest in wine-making and viticulture, and presently is a Dunedin City Councillor.Stephen Jaquiery is the Illustrations Editor at the Otago Daily Times and has worked as anewspaper photographer for over 30 years. He has won several awards for his photography and are widely published: City Birds and Otago Peninsula are his two most recent books.