Weather

Summary: Discusses the importance and causes of various kinds of weather, how it can change and be predicted, and how weather is different in different places.

Record details

ISBN: 9780756603243(ALB)
ISBN: 0756603242(ALB)
ISBN: 9780756603236
ISBN: 0756603234
Physical Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
print
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : DK Pub., 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Open your eyes to a world of discovery"--Cover.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Title page -- Contents and prelims -- What's weather? -- Seasons -- Power of the Sun -- Clouds in the sky -- Cloud gallery -- Living in a cloud -- Rain, rain -- White skies -- Icy showers -- Dew and frost -- Blowing in the wind -- Electric skies -- Terrible twisters -- Deadly storms -- Tricks of the light -- All at sea -- Desert worlds -- Weird weather -- Weather forecasting -- Changing climates -- Harnessing weather -- Glossary -- Index and acknowledgements.