As a hurricane intensifies, hurricane hunters are in the sky doing something ... aboard a P-3 Orion as it plunges through the eyewall of a hurricane. Basically, we’re take a flying laboratory ...

Hurricane hunters will typically fly through the eyewall of the hurricane multiple times, dropping weather instruments called dropsondes to measure temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction ...

With blue sky above, a swarm of clouds circled around with lightning in the eyewall ... throughout the whole house and hurricane damage." Hurricane Hunters play a crucial role in improving ...

You can follow the Hurricane Hunters and see more of their videos ... “Slicing through the eyewall of a hurricane, buffeted by howling winds, blinding rain and violent updrafts and downdrafts ...

The only catch is that in order to get there, we must fly directly through the hurricane's strongest winds and most violent turbulence--the dangerous eyewall. Today, we are pushing the limits of ...

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.

Using different planes, the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hurricane hunters cut through hurricanes to reach the storm's eyewall ...

The monster storm was packing 185 mph winds and gusts nearing 200 mph as the Hurricane Hunters penetrated the eyewall. The WP-3 Orion was hit with intense downdrafts that pushed it into a dive.

You can follow the Hurricane Hunters and see more of their videos ... “Slicing through the eyewall of a hurricane, buffeted by howling winds, blinding rain and violent updrafts and downdrafts ...