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Explores the causes of everyday weather phenomena, including how clouds form, why tornadoes twist, and how the sun helps life grow.

"Weather can be wild, freaky, and fascinating! Powerful twisters roar through homes; earthquakes shatter whole cities; hurricanes fly through towns. How does it all happen and how do we know what we do? All you need to know about weather and all of its wildness will be found in the pages of this colorful, energetic, and accessible book. Kids will also learn about real-life encounters with wild weather from National Geographic tornado chaser, Tim Samaras,...

This handbook includes sections on: sun, earth, air; the seasons; currents of air and water; reading a weather map; temperature; humidity; pressure; warm and cold fronts; wind; clouds; various kinds of precipitation; frost and ice; fog; smog; various kinds of storms; lightning; tornadoes; waterspouts; hurricanes; floods; droughts; rainbows; halo; weather watching; Nature's forecasters; U.S. weather records.

"Introduction to weather using simple text, question and answer format, illustrations and photos. Features include puzzles and games, fun facts, a resource list, and an index"--Provided by publisher.

Photographs and text depict different aspects of weather and how it is forecast.

Text, illustrations, and photographs of a boy looking out the window introduce different kinds of weather as it changes from day to day.

An introduction to some of the elements that make up our weather: sun, wind, clouds and rain, and hurricanes and tornadoes.