Meteorology electronic textbook http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/covis/modules/html/module.html Try looking through the section on thunderstorms, supercells and tornadoes. This is a very detailed discussion and may go into greater depth than you care to pursue, but if you're interested in these types of storm systems you'll find it highly informative. Some of the following sites have interesting stories and pictures filed by storm chasers in the midwest. http://cc.usu.edu/~kforsyth/Tornado.html http://java.meteor.wisc.edu/ftp/torngifs/report.html http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rsf/VORTEX95/images/tall_tornado.html http://www.public.iastate.edu/~atmos/homepage.html http://www.infi.net/~cwt/storms.html http://www.nssl.uoknor.edu/personal/Doswell/Tornadostuff.html http://www.nssl.uoknor.edu/personal/Doswell/photo.html?17,17 http://taiga.geog.niu.edu/chaser.html http://taiga.geog.niu.edu/chaser/photo.html http://www.sirs.com/partner/snow/snow595/snow595.htm http://www.typhoon.org.hk/http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/index.html#special http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/index.html#special http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/images/olimages.html http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/images/blizzard-96-avhrr-snow.gif http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/hurricane.html http://cloud.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/tropic.html http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.html http://www.sims.net/links/hurricane.html Electronic atlas of storm tracks: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/storms1 Visit this site and look at the seasonal patterns of storm activity. After looking at the average conditions for each season, select particular years and seasons and look at both the seasonal statistics and the storm tracks themselves. How would you explain the general seasonal shifts in pattern, and how would you explain the change in paths followed by storms in different seasons? NASA advanced visualizations http://globe.gsfc.nasa.gov/globe/sample/advanced.html Visit this site for a perspective view of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, particularly the animation. El-Nino theme page: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html Visit this site for an illustrated, well-written explanation of El Nino/Southern Oscillation and its global effects. If you feel ambitious, try selecting an El Nino and a non-El Nino year; then go back to the electronic atlas of storm tracks and compare summer or winter tracks between the two years. http://www.datasync.com/~farrar/clim.html http://climate.konza.ksu.edu/region.html http://kaos.erin.gov.au/database/WWW-Fall94/species_paper_new.html http://amazon.sr.unh.edu/pathfinder/index.html http://theory.tifr.res.inl~sgupta/others/monsoon.html