Meet the Hurricane Hunters who flew directly into the eye of Hurricane Dorian.
Just before 9 a.m. on Monday Lt. Col. Jeff Ragusa briefed his crew at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.Hurricane Dorian, then a Category 5 storm packing wind gusts of more than 200 mph, was over the Caribbean, threatening a swath of the East Coast from Florida to North Carolina. The Hurricane Hunters were about to fly directly into the storm. CNBC joined them on the flight.
"You have plenty of land observation," said Joel Cline, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. "With hurricanes if we wait to get land observations, it's a little bit late to be warning people." "It's like driving through a car wash on a roller coaster," said Air Force navigator Maj. John Gharbi.
The crew "crabs" into the storm, always turning left into the wind. Storms that are well formed, like Dorian, even as a Category 5, actually make for less bumpy flights compared with when the storm is forming or dissipating, because the storm is less stable. That unstable stage creates more up and down movements on the aircraft, making the flight more turbulent.
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