Hurricanes can grow more intense in a matter of hours, but exactly why remains a mystery. Mark Schrope flies into the eye of a storm to investigate. In the space of one October day, Hurricane Wilma escalated from a tropical storm to become the strongest hurricane from the Atlantic basin on record. It was a shift that no one saw coming, and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula bore the unexpectedly strong brunt of the storm.
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