This text introduces children to nature at its most powerful, showing not only the damage that drought can inflict on people and property, but also ways in which we are able to forecast weather to minimise damage.

It begins with an introduction describing the forces of nature, how they begin and what makes them grow stronger.

The book then goes on to show how and where disasters occur, other weather phenomena associated with the same natural forces and how we track and respond to them.

It also provides facts such as that 8000 year-old paintings of the Sahara desert show rivers and grasslands.