DK Eyewitness Books: Weather : Discover the World's Weather—from Heat Waves and Droughts to Blizzards and Floods

Some of the most popular selections from the formidable Eyewitness backlist are now available with a clip-art CD included-with no increase in price! From whirling tornadoes to freezing blizzards, weather is a constantly changing force that affects everything around us. Explore the history and elements that make up the environment around us in DK Eyewitness Books: Weather . Superb color photographs of the sky in all kinds of weather conditions, together with specially built 3-D models, offer a unique and revealing view of weather, from calm summer days to the bitter storms of winter. Discover why deserts are dry, how clouds are born, what makes raindrops grow. Learn how to make your own forecast and how humans have learned to predict and use the weather to their advantage over the years. Available for the first time in paperback, DK Eyewitness Books: Weather will take the reader into the skies to learn more about the storms, winds, and elements that make up the weather around us. Each revised Eyewitness book retains the stunning artwork and photography from the groundbreaking original series, but the text has been reduced and reworked to speak more clearly to younger readers. Still on every colorful page: vibrant annotated photographs and the integrated text-and-pictures approach that makes Eyewitness a perennial favorite of parents, teachers, and school-age kids. Awards: 8-time National Council for the Social Studies Award Winner 4-time Society for School Librarians International Social Studies Trade Book Award Winner 2-time Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Book Award Winner A Parents' Choice Award Winner New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text!

Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the skies above us. Superb color photographs of the sky in all kinds of weather conditions, together with specially built 3-D models, offer a unique and revealing view of weather, from calm summer days to the bitter storms of winter. See the biggest hailstone, inside the eye of a hurricane, a warm front in 3-D, the beauty of a snow crystal, a moon dog, and a dust devil. Learn the difference between a stratus and cumulonimbus cloud, how our weather may change in the future, and why tornadoes are so ferocious. Discover why deserts are dry, how clouds are born, what makes raindrops grow, how to make your own forecast, why the sky is blue, and much, much more.

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

From hurricanes to droughts - be an eyewitness to Mother Nature's work with DK Eyewitness Books: Weather.Discover everything from why deserts are dry to what makes raindrops grow and how to put together your own weather forecast in Eyewitness: Weather. "Discover the world's weather--from heat waves and droughts to blizzards and floods"--Cover. Includes discussion of why the climate may change in the future