Rough ride: NOAA hurricane hunters fly into eye of Milton in heart-racing flight caught on camera

Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were successful for a "bumpy" thrust aft they sent craft into the oculus of Hurricane Milton to cod information connected the monolithic tempest barreling towards Florida.

The formation missions were done by the Aircraft Operations Center's WP-3D Orion #NOAA43 plane, which is affectionately called "Miss Piggy."

The authorities bureau said successful a societal media station that operations, similar "Miss Piggy," are sent to cod captious information that helps amended forecasts connected their way and strength and enactment hurricane research.

"Data collected by the agency's high-flying meteorological stations helps forecasters marque close predictions during a hurricane and assistance hurricane researchers execute a amended knowing of tempest processes, improving their forecast models," the bureau said.

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NOAA Lockheed WP-3D Orion "hurricane hunter" craft (N43RF) departing Lakeland Linder International Airport successful Lakeland, Fla. (NOAA)

NOAA Programs and Integration Engineer Nick Underwood stands adjacent to an craft strategy and underneath 1 of NOAA's 2 Lockheed WP-3D Orion "hurricane hunter" aircraft. (Sophie Talbert NOAA)

NOAA Programs and Integration Engineer Nick Underwood captured the aggravated formation done the Category 5 cyclone.

The video captured the turbulent ride, with escaped items — including Underwood's wallet — near flying done the aircraft.

Radar show from NOAA WP-3D Orion N43RF "Miss Piggy" successful the halfway of circulation of a tropical tempest successful 2023. (NOAA Nick Underwood)

The planes are flown and crewed by members of the NOAA Commissioned Officers Corp. and scientists connected committee usage instruments that continuously transmit measurements backmost to the ground.

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The crews measurement the storm's pressure, humidity, temperature, upwind absorption and velocity to supply "a elaborate look astatine the operation of the storm and its intensity."

Hurricane Milton's projected way indicates it volition apt interaction astir of the Florida peninsula. (FOX Weather)

Milton is expected to marque landfall connected Florida's central-west Gulf seashore Wednesday night, according to forecasters. 

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Although it volition apt fluctuate successful intensity, it volition stay "an highly unsafe hurricane" done landfall.