Start with high-confidence weather & storms books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Weather Machine
Andrew Blum
How Mountains Are Made
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Storm
Hank Schyma
Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry? All About Deserts
Tish Rabe
Worm Weather
Jean Taft
Peterson Field Guide to Weather
Jay Anderson, John A. Day
A Drop of Water: a Book of Science and Wonder
Walter Wick
Hello, World! Snow
Jill McDonald
Wind Watchers
Micha Archer
Why Does It Rain?
Eric Carle
Why Is It Hot?
Mountains
Seymour Simon
Maisy's Wonderful Weather Book
Lucy Cousins
Drop
Emily Kate Moon
Frozen in Time
Carmella Van Vleet
The Kids' Book of Weather Forecasting
Mark Breen
National Geographic Kids Everything Weather
Kathy Furgang
Hot and Cold
Sian Smith
When the Sky Glows
Nell Cross Beckerman
Water Is Water
Miranda Paul
All About Weather
Huda Harajli
Look Inside Wild Weather
Emily Bone