Written in student-friendly language, each volume profiles one form of extreme weather. Technical terms are clearly defined to help readers fully understand all concepts.

Coverage includes:
-- Scientific explanations for the phenomena
-- Biographical information about people who have made relevant discoveries
-- Descriptions of the development and acceptance of new ideas
-- Accounts of actual dangerous weather situations
-- Appropriate advice about safety precautions.

Chapters include:
-- How Water Moves: Evaporation, Precipitation, and Transpiration
-- How the Land Drains
-- Floodplains and Meanders
-- Aquifers, Springs, and Wells
-- Vegetation and Natural Drainage
-- Types of Floods: The Nile Floods and the Aswan Dam
-- Wet Rice Farming
-- Where Floods Happen
-- Tsunamis
-- Coastal Erosion
-- The Cost of Floods: Salt Water Infiltration
-- Flood Damage
-- Floods and Soil Erosion
-- Floods of the Past
-- Prevention, Warning, and Survival
-- Wetlands
-- Canalization
-- Flood Prediction
-- Safety.