🧪 Climate Extreme Weather Simulation

This simulator observes extreme weather the way a climatologist does: as an emergent statistic of a rotating planet's circulation, not a single storm. A stylised Earth spins under an idealised Hadley/Ferrel/Polar circulation, its sea-surface temperature field driven by latitude, season and a global warming anomaly you control. Push the temperature slider and watch the physically-gated consequences ripple out — tropical cyclones spawn wherever the water crosses the real 26.5°C genesis threshold away from the equator, the subtropical dry belt widens and creeps poleward as the Hadley cell expands, mid-latitude storm-track rainfall intensifies at the textbook 7%-per-degree Clausius–Clapeyron rate, and polar cold-snaps fade as the poles warm. It is a demonstration of how a single knob — global mean temperature — reshapes the frequency, location and intensity of hurricanes, floods, droughts and blizzards across a landscape, grounded in the same circulation cells and thresholds meteorologists use to explain them.