🕹️ How to play

• ✈️ Chase: touch and hold where you want Swoop to fly (or use ← →). Fly through the glowing rings to drop dropsondes, then follow the pink line home.
• Stay outside the red dashed eyewall ring, and fly around the red thunderstorms.
• Fly the same way the wind spins (counterclockwise) for a tailwind!
• 🏠 Get Ready: tap things in the yard and Mei fetches them; Grandpa gets the balcony. Save the wobbling ones first, and pack the typhoon kit.

🔬 Is it real?

Typhoon winds really spin counterclockwise north of the equator, with a calm eye and the strongest wind in the eyewall. Taiwan really sends a jet to fly around typhoons about 13,000 meters up and drop dropsondes, and the data really helps forecasters. Bringing things inside, a flashlight, water and food are the real ways families get ready.

Game note: the typhoon is drawn smaller than real, it moves much faster, and the trips are much shorter. The real jet takes off from Taichung and flies around the storm, never through the eyewall. People and faces are pretend, and nothing gets hurt: things that blow away just roll off the screen.

🌀 Read the story

Why does a typhoon spin? Why is the eye calm? What do the warnings mean? Read Here Comes a Typhoon! with Mei and Swoop first.