HURRICANE HUNTERS

American pilot Joe Duckworth was the first person to fly through the eye of a hurricane and live to tell about it. His pioneering flight took place on July 27, 1943. One year later the first unit of the Hurricane Hunters was deployed. Today the pilots and scientists who brave the storms aboard these aircraft continue to explore every major hurricane that threatens the U.S. Meteorologists use the data they collect to calculate the force and direction of the storms and predict their path of destruction. BIRTH OF A MONSTER The winds produced by a hurricane can sometimes be felt 100 miles away. In the case of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, related winds were felt as far as 700–800 miles from the center. The water must have a temperature of at least…

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iD (Ideas & Discoveries) (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2018

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