Track monsoons, hurricanes, blizzards, and tornadoes. Take a journey around the planet to experience our most extreme storms and to witness the dramatic--and often perilous--efforts of scientists in the pursuit of understanding weather.Join meteorologists in the cockpit of a P-3 weather plane as they penetrate the eye of a hurricane; and in the tense, decisive moments on the road as they focus their radar on an approaching tornado, traveling to the heart of severe storms to learn what makes weather systems tick. Experience the bumpy ride into the sudden and spectacular calm of a hurricane’s eye, or the commando-like raid to the very brink of a killer tornado, and experience one of the elemental joys of doing science: that of confronting nature head-on to divine its awesome secrets.
Cinematography
Helicopter shots of tornadoes will melt your brain
Sound
That hurricane roar in surround sound? Terrifying
Practical Effects
Real storms, real planes, real lunatics flying into them
Director
Greg MacGillivray
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Greg MacGillivray pioneered the IMAX documentary format; this was his follow-up to the Oscar-nominated 'The Living Sea.'
Released two years before 'Twister' made storm chasing mainstream—this was genuine meteorologist culture, not Hollywood fantasy.
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