In 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, I flew with the Hurricane Hunters through cyclone Dorian in a retrofitted C-130 aircraft. As part of that U.S. Air Force science mission, for 10 hours we crisscrossed the Category V monster, measuring wind, temperature, barometric pressure and such to help determine what speed the thing was traveling, and where next it might go. The experience was thrilling, if not a little scary, for me – once-in-a-lifetime (story link below).
That said, more than a hurricane I had always wanted to see up close a Super Cell, a hurricane’s smaller sibling, which can spin off violent tornadoes. Growing up in
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