A scientist teams up with a storm-chaser to investigate the possible triggers for extreme weather conditions that have reduced the pyramids to rubble, destroyed the Eiffel Tower and caused a plague of frogs in New York.

It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a superstorm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Princeton Professor Ross Duffy and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.