The bands of clouds stretching out from the hurricane’s eye are so vast, they obscure almost the entire Southeastern United States when seen from space. Helene was expected to make landfall ...

I look to the northeast, scanning the sky for signs of Hurricane Hugo's outer cloud bands ... a veteran of 249 hurricane eye penetrations. There is no better pilot in the business.

The sullen dark clouds of the eyewall slip away ... the nearly disastrous first penetration of Hurricane Hugo's eye was our last flight. Terry stayed on in a non-flying role, and I quit the ...