Storms

Explains how each snowflake starts with tiny ice crystals, what makes blizzards such bad storms, and why snow can fall in warm places.

Photographs and simple text explain how wind can stir sand, dust, or topsoil into furious clouds that travel hundreds of miles across deserts, prairies, and oceans.

A look at hailstorms, explaining how and why hailstones form, and discussing the damage hailstorms can cause.

Photographs and simple text explain how wind can stir sand, dust, or topsoil into furious clouds that travel hundreds of miles across deserts, prairies, and oceans.

A look at snowstorms, explaining how snowflakes form, discussing the potential dangers of snowstorms and blizzards, and showing how scientists track storms.

A look at hurricanes, explaining what they are and how they form, and describing the damage that can be caused by the storms.

Photographs and simple text describe how lightning forms, why thunder always follows it, and how a storm can bring hail, flooding, or tornadoes.

A look at tornadoes, explaining how and why tornadoes form, and discussing the damage the violent storms can cause.