Includes index.

"Featuring 100s of incredible images"--Cover

Explore how weather works on earth as well as ways that people predict and interact with the weather.

Restless Air -- Earth's atmosphere -- Northern lights -- Water in the air -- Spreading sunshine -- Temperature -- Day and night -- Sun in the sky -- Seasons -- Air masses -- Weather fronts -- Air wars -- Highs and lows -- Wind patterns -- Trade winds -- Penguins face off poiar easterlies -- Westerlies -- Atmospheric rivers -- Windy days -- Weather in space -- Amazing Every Day -- How clouds form -- Low-level clouds -- Mid-level clouds -- High-level clouds -- Rare clouds -- Low clouds -- Rain -- Snow -- Frost -- Fog and mist -- Urban weather -- Local weather -- Tricks of the light -- Weird weather -- Dangerous Weather -- Birth of a hurricane -- Hurricane impact -- Katrina -- After the storm -- To the rescue -- Frontal storms -- Thunderhead -- Lightning strike -- St. John's weather bomb -- Supercell -- Tornadoes -- Tri-state tornado -- Tornado alley -- Storm chasers -- Blizzard -- Dust storms -- Most devastating -- Weather Watching

Myths and legends -- Tomorrow's weather -- Weather watchers -- Measuring ice in the Arctic -- Weather stations -- Watchers in space -- Home weather -- Digital genius -- Ensemble forecasting -- Weather mapping -- True or false? -- Weather forecasts -- Hurricane tracking -- Hurricane hunters -- Through history -- All-Year Weather -- Climate zones -- Deserts -- El Nino -- Monsoons -- Ancient puzzle -- Ocean currents -- Arctic chill -- On the move -- Climate Chaos -- Climate timeline -- Volcanic weather -- Our climate is changing -- Harmful gases -- The impact -- Wildfire -- Continent of fire -- Too dry -- Billion-dollar weather -- 24 hours of saving energy -- Weather heroes -- Weather research for the future.

From wild tornadoes to blinding blizzards, learn what makes our climate and weather work in this stunning visual guide. Fiercer hurricanes, hungrier wildfires, flash floods, and desertification are becoming a part of daily life as our climate shifts and changes. Weather covers the most important areas of this timely topic, delivering up-to-date expert information on everything from the water cycle to winds, cloud galleries, fog, and snow, and from extreme weather like hurricanes, supercell tornadoes, firestorms, and dust storms to the people who predict them and try to save others. Beautifully laid out images of weather objects and processes using satellite imagery, time-lapse photography, and eyewitness reportage put readers in the eye of the storm for close-up learning. A must-read for curious young scientists interested in the weather systems that shape our world.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.