Tempest

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Tempest tells the true stories of the world's great storms and the science of how weather works. Each episode, host Nirob takes one storm — a hurricane that erased a city that thought it could not happen, a river that turned into an inland sea, an outbreak of tornadoes that crossed a continent in a night, a cyclone that split a nation in two — and rebuilds it: the weather that made it possible, the warnings that were or were not heard, the storm as it actually unfolded, the wake it left, and the forecasting and engineering that came out of the disaster.From the great Caribbean hurricane of 1780 to the Galveston storm of 1900, from the Mississippi floods and the Central China floods to the Bhola cyclone of 1970, from Hurricane Camille to the Super Outbreak, from Katrina to Typhoon Haiyan, Tempest is about the most powerful and least predictable force in the natural world — and about how human beings learned, slowly and often at terrible cost, to read the sky. Meticulously researched, h