Hurricane Hunters risk their lives to collect real-time data for meteorologists that cannot be obtained from satellites: vertical profiles of atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind speed at various altitudes. Without these measurements, what's happening inside a hurricane can only be guessed from satellite images. #HurricaneHunters #Meteorology #WeatherData
Aboard Hurricane Hunter | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)

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Hurricane Hunters risk their lives to collect real-time data for meteorologists that cannot be obtained from satellites: vertical profiles of atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind speed at various altitudes. Without these measurements, what's happening inside a hurricane can only be guessed from satellite images. #HurricaneHunters #Meteorology #WeatherData
"Hurricane hunters" risk their lives to collect real-time data for meteorologists: vertical cross-sections of atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind speed at various altitudes. Without these measurements, what's happening inside a hurricane can only be guessed from satellite images. #HurricaneHunters #Meteorology #WeatherData #Science
Airplane Captures Striking 'Stadium Effect' Inside Hurricane Melissa's Eye

Severe storms look like a sports stadium from the inside.

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Tempestology (HURRICANES) Part 1 with Matt Lanza & Dr. Kim Wood — Ologies with Alie Ward

Hurricanes. Typhoons. Cyclones. Tropical storms. Tropical depressions. What does it all MEAAAN? Let’s dive in. Career meteorologists Dr. Kim Wood of the University of Arizona and Space City Weather’s Matt Lanza join for a two-guest two-parter to address the “deadlier” female-named hurricanes, why hurricane season happens, the category system, where hurricanes come from, why they have eyes, and how we track cyclones’ paths so we can stay out of them. Next week we’ll be back with Kim and Matt to chat about climate change, emergency preparation – for any disaster occasion –, the latest on the government funding drama, if you should trust a waffle house more than a weather person, and literally what is on the horizon in the future. Also: cows.

NOAA Hurricane Hunter layoffs threaten to degrade hurricane forecasts

A gap in flight director staffing could keep the planes earthbound at crucial times.

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#HurricaneHunters don't take winter off as are flying across the #GulfofMexico now to lock down the forecast for the developing #Winterstorm in the South. iweathernet.com 🌀❄️