Hurricane Hunters with NOAA will fly into the eye of storms to capture data on their intensity. They have shared photos with the public that offer glimpses inside the storms they track, and some ...

What's it like to fly in the eye of a Category 5 hurricane? "Bumpy," said Josh Wadler, an assistant professor of meteorology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. He knows from ...

A hurricane hunter’s final, fitting resting place: Milton’s eye On Tuesday, a team of hurricane hunters released the ashes of Peter Dodge, a longtime meteorologist who died in March 2023.

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Michael Lowry, a hurricane researcher at WPLG-TV in Florida, shared a photo on X of the flight's Vortex Data Message, which logs meteorological data and observations made during the trip. A line ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 8, 20 of his colleagues in the NOAA's “Hurricane Hunters” paid tribute to his legacy by dropping his ashes into the eye of Hurricane Milton, about 300 miles southwest of Florida.

NOAA scientists, who call themselves "hurricane hunters," had a ceremony for Dodge's cremated remains on the Tuesday flight through Milton, which flew into the storm's eye in only one minute.

In the Gulf of Mexico just north of the Yucatan Peninsula one early morning, Milton was generating winds of up to 200 knots (or about 230 mph) at 400 meters of altitude, Wadler said. That's about ...