INTO HURRICANES, THE HURRICANE HUNTERS ARE DOING WORK AND RESEARCH OUTSIDE OF THE HURRICANE SEASON. FIRST WARNING, METEOROLOGIST BROOKE, SILVERING IS HERE TO EXPLAIN WHAT THEY’RE FLYING DURING ...

The first hurricane/typhoon hunter plane loss occurred on October 1, 1945, when a Navy PB4Y-2 (BuNo 59415) went down in a Category 1 typhoon over the South China Sea. Pilot Lt(jg) Ralph Cook and ...

HOUSTON — Hurricane hunters provide data on tropical systems, and lead to better forecasting. So what are they doing flying into the winter storm? Meteorologist Pat Cavlin was tracking the ...

I look to the northeast, scanning the sky for signs of Hurricane Hugo's outer cloud bands, but see only the puffy fair weather cumulus clouds typical of a tropical summer morning. I continue to ...

but Florida's "hurricane hunters" are staying busy. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) runs its operation center out of Lakeland. During hurricane season, that's where ...