Weather: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Ice, Lightning and Other Dramatic Weather Events in Photographs

The weather produces some o the most awe-inspiring and impactful scenes we can witness in nature - from epic lightning shows to roiling clouds and the roaring waves of powerful sea storms. It also leaves behind the most striking results: floods from hurricanes and the cracked earth of droughts from blazing heat. Yet the stability of weather is vital for our planet, its rainfall and melting ice and snows providing all life with fresh water and allowing agriculture.

In more than 150 photographs, this book presents the most stunning scenes of the weather in full force - rain, lightning and thunderstorms, fog, clouds, snow and ice, heat, and hurricanes, typhoons and tornadoes - from all across the globe.

Celebrating the beauty and majesty of our planet's meteorological phenomena, Weather also reveals the effects of weather and, in enlightening captions, h ow weather patterns are formed - and how humans actions are impacting them.