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NOAA’s hurricane hunters might be just as busy now as they were during hurricane season. However, it’s not hurricanes they are flying through, but the atmospheric river systems plaguing ...
At the outset of the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Weather Service is critically understaffed in many locations ...
NOAA hurricane hunters fly into some of the most powerful storms on Earth for a living. "So we have limits for the aircraft, as far as the amount of Gs we're able to pull. And we can get up close ...
NOAA’s hurricane hunters, famous for flying into the world’s most ferocious weather, have a job which is not for the faint of heart, often being tossed in severe turbulence while flying at a ...
When a hurricane is in the forecast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) deploys its famed Hurricane ...
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance expected to stall over or near Florida, which could affect your Fourth of July weekend.
Journey into a hurricane with NOAA's hurricane hunters. As most of us prepare to seek shelter or hunker down, one courageous group of scientists flies directly into the eye of the storm: NOAA's ...
There are two NOAA P3 Orion aircraft. One, nicknamed Kermit, has flown into over 100 storms dating back to 1976 and has several instruments the U.S. Air Force C-130 doesn’t, one being its own ...
The planes do the same thing for us with our hurricane," said Robbie Berg, a warning coordinating meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center. There are two NOAA P3 Orion aircraft.