How Do Hurricanes Form? (NOAA)

Video (<3 min), all animated. comes from this site https://scijinks.gov/hurricane/ with a lot more info and graphics on formation of hurricanes.

Recommend for lower middle school and up.

How Hurricanes Form (NGSS)

Video (3 min) that includes video clips of hurricanes and hurricane formation as well as animation.

Recommend for upper middle school and up.

Short report on hurricane research, connecting climate change indicators to hurricane wind speeds. 

Recommend for middle school and up.

Short article stating that there is increasing confidence that human-induced climate change is making extreme events, such as heat waves, rainfall and flooding events, droughts, storms, and wildfires, statistically much more likely.

Recommend for high school and up.

Hurricane season: How water vapor helps tropical storms develop

Video 2 min, from August 2023 newscast, explains how hurricanes form from warm water and wind and people can look at weather maps to see when they are possible,

Recommend for high school and up.

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/hurricanes.html

Brief description of hurrican formation.

Recommend for high school and up.

Overview page with links to articles explaining the scientific connection between climate change and several types of extreme weather events.  

Recommend for middle school and up.

Extreme weather

Summary of extreme weather events and their impacts around the globe. Published by the World Meteorological Organization. https://wmo.int/topics/extreme-weather 

Recommend for high school and up.