HURRICANE HUNTERS Fly Through Eye of Florence

Ever wonder how we get some of those crazy accurate details about impending storms? Me, I just thought we used satellites and people wayyyy smarter than I am to make specific calculations.  Well we do...but we also use crazy brave pilots, whose job is to fly into storms.  YEAHHHH, no thanks, don't sign me up for that!

These bad*sses are known as Hurricane Hunters, and are actually sent into storms by The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration to gather data that cannot be determined via satellite. 

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The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration sends planes known as ‘hurricane hunters’ into the center of hurricanes to gather data that can’t be picked up on a satellite. A mission on Monday measured Hurricane Florence’s winds at 130 mph.

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Look at that, learnin something new everyday!