Explores the causes and effects of storms and hurricanes, discussing topics such as weather patterns, methods of monitoring and tracking storms, shelters, and techniques for reducing the devastating effects of violent weather. Includes illustrations, photographs, and maps.

"From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern...

Provides information about hurricanes, describing the conditions that lead to their formation, discussing what happens during the course of such storms, explaining how they are tracked and named, and looking at some historic hurricanes.

On Pensacola Beach, as the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane entering the Gulf of Mexico, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Suspecting drug traffickers, they retrieve it and are shocked to find body parts wrapped in plastic. Though she's putting herself in the path of the hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell investigates. She traces the torso to a man who disappeared weeks earlier in Port St. Lucie - on the Atlantic...

Describes the origin and nature of hurricanes and ways of staying safe when threatened by one of these dangerous storms.

Explains how warm water and winds can spin into the largest and most powerful storms on Earth.

Tells how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how they have affected the United States throughout this century.

Discusses hurricanes, their birth and development, the devastation they can cause, and their aftermath.

"What causes hurricanes? How do scientists predict and prepare for them? Discover the answers to these questions and more." --