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Hurricane hunters are flying through Ian's powerful winds to get the forecasts you rely on – here's what happens when the plane plunges into the eyewall of a storm

  • Written by Jason Dunion, Research Meteorologist, University of Miami
Hurricane hunters are flying through Ian's powerful winds to get the forecasts you rely on – here's what happens when the plane plunges into the eyewall of a stormFlying into Hurricane Harvey aboard a a P-3 Hurricane Hunter nicknamed Kermit in 2018.Lt. Kevin Doreumus/NOAA

As Hurricane Ian intensifies on its way toward the Florida coast, hurricane hunters are in the sky doing something almost unimaginable: flying through the center of the storm. With each pass, the scientists aboard these planes take...

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