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

Introduces basic weather terms and concepts, explaining the origins of fog, clouds, frost, thunderstorms, snow, fronts, and hurricanes.

Explains various aspects of weather including the whys and wherefores of clouds, rain, hailstones, atmosphere, climate, forecasting, and other related topics. Includes simple projects.

"Examines what is known about weather--storms, predictions, climate, and other characteristics--and how different the facts are from what scientists, from ancient Sumerians to the recent past, believed to be true."--

"Winter has arrived and everywhere you look people are embracing the season. At home there's baking, reading, and sleeping in, while on the farm the fields are fallow and quiet. Outside people are bundled up against the cold as they are skating, sledding, and running to catch a crowded bus. The town's buildings are alive with activity--piano lessons, a dentist appointment, shopping for presents, and visiting the museum. And if you look closer, you'll...

Provides instructions for creating more than forty projects and experiments relating to weather, such as creating a rainbow at home, building a barometer, and seeing a tornado in a bottle.

When pirates Captain Oliver and Rosie decide to try farming near the town of Mousam they learn that the sayings about weather that they used while at sea are equally useful on land.

Explores extreme weather, discussing how weather satellites predict the future, the difference between weather and climate, and how the rotation of the planet affects wind currents.

While the other cows are enjoying the sun and making plenty of milk, Milly Moo is too hot to make a drop but when the temperature falls, Milly Moo shows the farmer and the rest of the herd what she can do.