00:00Hurricane facts that sound fake but are actually true or false.
00:04Can you tell which is which? Water kills more people than hurricane winds.
00:08True. Storm surge and inland flooding are responsible for more hurricane deaths than
00:12the winds themselves. That's why even a weaker hurricane can sometimes be deadlier than a
00:17stronger one. And that leads right into this one. The category tells you everything you need to know
00:22about a hurricane. False. A hurricane's category only tells you its wind speed. It says nothing
00:27about flooding, storm surge, rainfall, or tornadoes. That's also why AccuWeather uses the real impact
00:32scale alongside the Saffir-Simpson scale. Because wind speed is only part of the story. How about
00:38this one? One side of a hurricane is usually more dangerous than the other. True. In the northern
00:44hemisphere, the right front quadrant of a hurricane is often the most dangerous because the storm's
00:48forward motion adds to the wind speed. It's also the side most likely to produce tornadoes. Only
00:54coastal areas need to worry about hurricanes. False. Some of the worst flooding and tornado
00:59outbreaks happen hundreds of miles inland after a hurricane makes landfall. I mean, just look at
01:04Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. And finally, clouds in a hurricane's eye wall can be
01:10taller than Mount Everest. True. The strongest thunderstorms in the eye wall can tower more than 50,000
01:16feet into the atmosphere. Higher than most commercial jets fly. So, how many did you get right?
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