Books in Science of Weather series

Discusses how people cope with, use, and control ice, exploring its effects on clothing, housing, and traveling.

Explains how droughts affect people, and describes how people adjust to hot and dry climates by dressing cool, channeling solar energy, protecting their skin, and growing crops that require little water.

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Examines how rain affects humans, discussing how it is needed for drinking water, farming, and the generation of electricity. Includes experiments.

Learn what makes lightning flash across the sky, and the different ways lightning is created in thunderstorms.

Describes the weather conditions that create droughts, explains how severe droughts can produce desert environments and affect plant and animal life, and discusses how global warming can lead to increasing droughts in the future.

Discusses the formation of various icy weather conditions and their effects on the earth's surface, plants, animals, and climate.

Learn about snow and snow crystals. How water turns into snow is the focus of this book, with a discussion of blizzards and other extreme conditions.

Sunrises, sunsets, rainbows - all these things come from the sun. Sunshine also gives us light, warmth, food, and creates all of our weather.

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Examines the role that rain plays on earth, how the cycle of evaporation and condensation works, and the effects of water on all forms of life.