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It's Okay to Be Smart

Making a Hurricane Indoors (For Science)

Season 10 Episode 6

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.