Tropical cyclones, also called hurricanes and typhoons, cause catastrophic damage when they strike land. When a cyclone's fury unleashes on population centers, death, injury, and wholesale destruction follow. This program explores the life cycle of cyclones: how atmospheric conditions, ocean temperatures, and the Earth's rotation combine to create them and how, driven by winds, they eventually weaken after moving over land.

Originally released by Video Education America (VEA), 2017. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 30, 2018.

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