The Funnel of Death | Frontispiece |
Futen, God of the Winds | 14 |
There, Before the Flood, Stood Anton's House | 30 |
The Edge of a Tornado's Whirl | 38 |
In the Path of the Lightning | 46 |
In the Path of the Tornado | 46 |
Facing a Climb on Snow-Shoes | 56 |
Twenty-Five-Foot Drift a Mile Long | 56 |
Forest Ranger in Idaho | 56 |
Observer Among the Quaking Aspens | 56 |
No Peak Too Lofty for a Weather Station | 68 |
Wall and Upright Sun-Dials | 86 |
The First Line of Defence Against the Tempest | 98 |
Solar Halo Seen in the United States | 110 |
Solar Halo Seen in Russia | 110 |
The Dust that Makes Red Sunsets | 122 |
An Army Destroyed by Weather | 138 |
Types of Upper Clouds | 152 |
Types of Lower Clouds | 152 |
Types of Rain Clouds | 152 |
Kite-Flying—The New Way | 162 |
Kite-Flying—The Old Way | 162 |
The Explorer of the Upper Air | 172 |
Snow-Flakes from the Upper Regions of the Air | 186 |
Snow-Flakes from the Middle Regions of the Air | 186 |
Snow-Flakes from the Lower Regions of the Air | 186 |
Ringing the Frost Alarm | 192 |
Fighting Frost in an Orchard—Night | 206 |
Fighting Frost in an Orchard—Dawn | 206 |
Bucking a Snow-Drift | 212 |
Clear the Way! | 212 |
Measuring the Blizzard's Rage | 224 |
Signals on Delaware Breakwater | 236 |
Signal Tower for Storm Warnings | 236 |
Thermometers and Rain-Gauge | 246 |
Pencil Drawings of Tornado in Dakota | 256 |
True Tornado Forming in Advance of a Dust Whirl | 268 |
Tornado Dropping Towards Ground | 268 |
Tornado Wrecking a Farm | 276 |
Tornado Whirling Sidewise | 276 |
Galveston Causeway Before and After the Hurricane | 286 |
Shot from the Gun of a Hurricane | 296 |
Scale of Winds, Illustrated by Clipper Ships | 304 |
Branch Lightning and Multiple Flash | 314 |
Eiffel Tower Struck by Lightning | 320 |
Lightning Flash Striking Building | 320 |
Mules Carried in the Air Three Miles from Their Stable | 328 |
Grand Piano Picked Up by a Tornado and Dropped in a Cow-Pasture | 328 |