Explores how weather works and its effects and includes diagrams providing explanations for interpreting weather signs, in a study complemented by aerial and satellite photographs, as well as up-to-the-minute information on extreme weather and natural events that predict the weather.
Bruce Buckley is a senior meteorologist who has worked in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and as chief meteorologist on television for Australia's Weather Channel.
Edward J. Hopkins is a lecturer in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, and is a weather education consultant with the American Meteorological Society.
Richard Whitaker is a meteorological consultant who provides services to businesses, governments and educational organizations. He is a former manager of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's commercial unit in New South Wales.