Science

Basically, it's a hurricane on steroids. It is thought to have formed when the water temperature reached 120 F, which is almost 30 degrees hotter than the warmest water temperature ever recorded. It supposedly had winds of 500 mph, near supersonic, and the height of it was 20-30 miles up into the atmosphere. It would have reached the upper stratosphere, maybe the lower mesosphere and destroyed the ozone layer, which would have brought dangerous levels of UV radiation to Earth. It probably would have taken years to replenish the ozone layer.