Displayed at the Florida Museum in 2020, this exhibition offers a scientific overview of Florida’s trademark weather phenomena including information on their formation, naming, categories, and hurricane seasons around the world. Charts and graphics illustrate the facts about climate change-related hurricane trends, while historic and satellite images showcase six historic Florida hurricanes.
Note: The information in this exhibit is accurate as of 2019. The Museum is working to update this material with more recent storm data.
Earth’s Forecast: Hurricanes and Climate Change exhibit panels showing examples of Florida’s extreme hurricanes and how hurricanes are formed.
Earth’s Forecast: Hurricanes and Climate Change exhibit panels showing the myths, facts, and maybes linking changes in hurricanes to global climate change.
Hurricane Capital
Learn about six of Florida’s historic hurricanes, including the Okeechobee hurricane of 1928 and Hurricane Easy, respectively the state’s deadliest storm and the hurricane that produced the most rain in a 24-hour period.
Eye of the Storm
Discover how hurricanes form, how storms get their names and how hurricane seasons vary around the world.
Hurricane Trends
Learn about the impact of climate change on hurricanes and whether they’re getting wetter, stronger and/or more frequent.
The world’s largest hurricane simulator is located at the Alfred C. Glassell Jr. SUSTAIN Laboratory at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. The acrylic and steel tank can hold 38,000 gallons of water and produces winds over 150 mph.
If a hurricane is particularly damaging or deadly, the World Meteorological Organization retires its name. Fifteen Atlantic hurricane names were retired in the 2010s, including Sandy, Matthew, Harvey and Irma.
Hurricanes and typhoons are different names for the same phenomenon: tropical cyclones. People in the North Atlantic, central and eastern North Pacific refer to them as hurricanes while the Northwest Pacific calls them typhoons. In the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, the term tropical cyclone is used.
Our Changing Climate: Hurricanes and Climate Change Downloadable Panels
The Florida Museum invites you to build your own exhibition! Download high-resolution exhibit panels that are ready to print and hang at your institution. Native files are available upon request to tailor the exhibit to your region. For more information, contact the Exhibits Coordinator at 352-273-2073 or travelingexhibits@floridamuseum.ufl.edu.
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