(The Conversation) – 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.

The brave men and woman onboard NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplanes need to remain cool, calm and collected during extreme conditions while flying into some of the most intense storms on Earth. And ...

Flying into a hurricane may sound reckless, but for NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters it is a critical scientific mission. This breakdown explains why pilots deliberately enter the most violent storms on Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NOAA Flight Director Sofia De Solo joins FOX Weather ahead of the agency’s mission to fly its Hurricane Hunters directly into a ...

AND FOR MORE ON THAT, LET’S GO TO METEOROLOGIST KELLY ANN CICALESE. THAT’S RIGHT MIKE. WELL, WHAT WE’RE SEEING HERE IS THE SETUP TO BE A POTENTIALLY HISTORIC WINTER STORM SPANNING OVER 2000 MILES AND ...

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Hurricane Hunter planes, typically used for tropical storms, were deployed to help forecast major winter storms in the U.S. These winter missions help forecasters gather crucial atmospheric data over ...