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Aircraft tracking fanatics have spotted two hurricane hunters flying into the eye of Hurricane Melissa as it is set to make landfall in Jamaica.
New video shows hurricane hunters being tossed by turbulence while entering eye of Hurricane Melissa
The NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center captured video aboard its Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft, Kermit, as it was buffeted by winds near the storm's eye.
As Hurricane Melissa made landfall, a daring team of aviators flew straight into the eye of the monstrous Category 5 storm. On Monday, a US Air Force reserve crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, nicknamed the “Hurricane Hunters,” shared videos and images of their flight inside the cyclone to collect vital weather data.
Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, intensified rapidly, then stalled near the coast.
The Hunters wrote on social media Tuesday that they were forced to turn back from another mission into the eye of Melissa due to “heavy turbulence.”
Air Force Times on MSN
Hurricane Hunter aircraft forced back to base by Melissa’s fury
Unusually heavy turbulence forced an Air Force WC-130J Hurricane Hunter aircraft to turn back from Hurricane Melissa on Tuesday and return to base to check for damage, the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron said.
Starlink, the satellite internet service in Elon Musk's business empire, will be free to people in Jamaica and the Bahamas amid Hurricane Melissa.
Hurricane Melissa data is being sent to CSU's Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Lab to investigate why Category 4 & 5 hurricanes are more common.