Hurricane hunter footage from the eye of Hurricane Lee shows the surreal scene of massive storm clouds towering around a calm eye amid darkness.
Hurricane Lee could remain a Category 4 or Category 5 storm for another week. The path of the storm's center is still uncertain, making Hurricane Hunter data critically important in the hours and days ahead. Hurricane Hunter Lt. Col. Mark Withee, navigator for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron joins FOX Weather from St. Croix, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
"We knew it was going to be strong and further developing, but we didn't know that it was going to be a Category 5," said Hurricane Hunter Lt. Col. Mark Withee, the navigator who flew into the center of the hurricane, an experience few people on Earth can relate to.Yet a Category 5 storm is exactly what his team found when they flew into the storm and made four passes through the eye wall, Withee told FOX Weather.
"But then once we were in the eye of the storm, then it was mostly dark, except for the repeated lightning that would flash up and illuminate, so we could see it beyond just what the radar picture was showing," he said.
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