Natural Disasters
You may have noticed that NewEarth does not escape natural disasters. In book 1 there is a sudden storm that moves from warm autumn temperatures to sudden winter cold. In another book there is a swarm of bugs that eats everything in their path. And the driving snow storms play a key role in several stories in that world.
In future books their will be seismically active ground, floods, references to famine, and more of the killing storms as well as sharp unexpected winds that funnel and destroy what lay in their ambling paths. Weather is not something I could overlook as a feature of NewEarth. It is not only part of the setting, but in some cases it is a plot twist.