These U.S. Air Force pilots are ready for hurricane hunting season
They'll fly right into vicious storms all summer.
By Lexi Krupp June 5, 2018
An Air Force unit celebrated the start of hurricane season early this year, with a flight over the Yucatán Peninsula at the end of May to penetrate the heart of subtropical storm Alberto.
“There aren’t many people that fly into hurricanes,†says Major Chris Dyke, an Air Force meteorologist. But he’s one of them.
Leading up to the peak of hurricane season, scientists predict the number and intensity of storms to wallop the coast, using information from satellites, buoys, ships, and weather balloons throughout the world, says Phil Klotzbach, a meteorologist who heads the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University. But when an individual storm begins to brew over the open ocean, another breed of weather trackers steps in to foretell its future.
https://www.popsci.com/hurricane-hunting-season#page-2
