Hurricanes: Florida's Nightmare

When massive hurricanes like Ivan and Katrina threaten the United States, it is up to the experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami to tell us when and where they will make landfall. And predicting a storm of this magnitude is a tricky and stressful thing. One wrong calculation could leave millions of unsuspecting people directly in a storm's deadly path. Meet the experts from the NHC and work alongside them in their Miami fortress as they provide life-saving information to the public in Hurricanes: Florida's Nightmare, which previously aired on public television. Learn what it takes for a hurricane to develop, and find out how today's advanced technology can both help and hurt predictions. Then go behind the scenes and relive one of the most active hurricane seasons the Atlantic has ever seen!