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The strong winds of hurricanes get all the TV time when a storm hirs, but it's the storm surge that often causes the most damage and leads to the most deaths. Now meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center have developed a new warning system that informs people 36 to 48 hours in advance of a dangerous storm surge.
2) Space Storms
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Space storms occur when the sun erupts, sending out a ball of plasma. This video clip takes viewers to University of California Berkeley and Big Bear Solar Observatory to meet the extra terrestrial weathermen who show us how a space superstorm could occur and what effect it would have on our communication and energy networks.
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Weather is uncontrollable. Over time we have learned to live with storms, heat waves, droughts, and prolonged periods of extreme cold. As this documentary explains, they are all examples of extreme or unusual weather-nature at its deadliest and most destructive. In March 1993, the US Eastern Seaboard was hit with a massive snow storm that became known as the Storm of the Century. Two years later, Chicago was caught up in a five-day nightmare of heat...