Discusses the tools and equipment used by scientists and other specialists who head into violent storms and the dangers associated with the practice, and describes the main characteristics of tornadoes, hurricanes, waterspouts, and thunderstorms.
Describes the risks of lightning, thunderstorm winds, and flash floods, and how to stay safe, including strategies for those who work outdoors, lightning myths, and survival stories.
Explores how humans are affecting the world's weather patterns and argues that if changes are not made, weather events will become more catastrophic in the future.
Storm chaser Jim Reed recounts his fifteen-year career photographing weather phenomena across the United States, sharing some of his most memorable experiences and images and discussing how global warming is impacting the world's weather patterns.
Describes dangerous and destructive weather conditions around the world, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, hail, and drought with photographs, historical background, and legends.
This book describes different types of storms including tornadoes, blizzards, and sandstorms, and how they can be a danger to people, and includes an experiment to study how raindrops form.