What’s the origin of the word Hurricane? How do they form? Where do they come from?! If you want to find out the answers to these questions – then don’t miss watching these videos!

Brownsville, hardly ever makes it on the US map, except, when there’s a hurricane brewing in the Gulf of Mexico. Sure enough, tropical storm Alex which should be upgraded to a hurricane pretty soon has brought Browntown back on the Map. Click on the image to see a larger map.

A few years ago I put together a series of videos for Gorgas Science Foundation and NASA focused on the biodiversity of this region.  The first in the series, presented by Guillermo Aguilar of UTB/TSC is about Hurricanes. This is probably the perfect time to be putting up this video. It’s broken into 2 parts as Youtube couldn’t handle a single long video file. The first part primarily focuses on the history of hurricanes in south Texas and the second part goes into the science behind hurricanes and how they are tracked. There’s some pretty cool NASA footage in there with Graphics designed to tell you all about Hurricanes so we can better understand this mighty weather phenomenon.

To watch the second part – Click Here.