NCAR s High-Resolution Modeling Advances Understanding of Hurricane Dynamics hpcwire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hpcwire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hurricanes that rapidly intensify for mysterious reasons pose a particularly frightening threat to those in harm's way. Forecasters have struggled for many years to understand why a seemingly commonplace tropical depression or tropical storm sometimes blows up into a major hurricane, packing catastrophic winds and driving a potentially deadly surge of water toward shore.