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Making a Hurricane Indoors (For Science)

Season 10 Episode 6 | 11m 50s

Hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones are Earth’s most powerful storms. As climate change warms Earth’s oceans, we face more risk of storms rapidly intensifying into category 5, sometimes in less than a single day. So in order to improve our understanding of hurricanes, scientists have built a machine that can create hurricane conditions indoors.

Aired: 06/01/22
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