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Traveling Exhibits
Wild Wild Weather
Admission to the Wild, Wild Weather exhibit is included in regular exhibit admission.

Enjoy our permanent exhibit.
Whether it's raining cats and dogs or it's a dark and stormy night, visitors can explore how weather affects our daily lives in more ways than one. From hurricanes to tornadoes, Wild, Wild Weather presents the wonderful world of weather through interactive components that focus on weather extremes, their phenomena and causes, and how weather impacts flight safety.
Eye of the Storm!
Hurricanes are rotating tropical storms with extremely low pressure centers. Warm, moist tropical air feeds energy into these storms. As they grow in strength, their rotation creates high winds. The storms push mounds of water ahead as they advance. This is called a storm surge. Heavy rain can cause flooding.

A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when wind speeds reach 74 miles per hour. Hurricanes rotate around a calm center, known as the "eye." Winds spiral upward in hurricanes, fastest in the eye wall. But in the eye itself, air sinks and warms suppressing clouds, clearing the air.

Find out how much you know about hurricane safety at the hurricane exhibit!
Wild, Wild Weather was created in partnership with NASA Langley Research Center and through generous funding from: