Simon Winchester is an avid weather watcher. He's scanned the skies in Oklahoma, waiting for the ominous "finger" of a tornado to touch the Earth. He's hunkered down in Hong Kong when typhoon warning signals went up. He knows about the worst weather in the world. A master nonfiction storyteller, Winchester looks at why hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, and tornadoes start brewing and what happens when these giant storms hit. His narrative also includes a historical look at how we learned about weather systems and where we're headed because of climate change.