Behind-the-Scenes at the National Hurricane Center

MIAMI — There’s only one building in Florida that can withstand the biggest and baddest of all hurricanes — the Category 5, with winds of at least 165 mph (266 kph) — and it’s a concrete bunker along an unglamorous stretch of road in South Florida called the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The NHC never closes. Here, weather forecasters work around the clock, 365 days a year, tracking threatening storms in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

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Behind-the-Scenes at the National Hurricane Center