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NOAA's Hurricane Hunters Tackle Winter Storm
NOAA's high-altitude flights collect atmospheric data to extend winter storm forecast lead times by 2–3 days, helping reduce impacts like snowfall, flooding, and beach erosion.
- On Thursday, NOAA Hurricane Hunters depart Lakeland, Florida, with a seven-person crew aboard the Gulfstream IV-SP to feed observations into the GFS.
- Historically, the Hurricane Hunters have flown atmospheric river events and winter-storm reconnaissance for many years and will resume their typical Pacific operations next month.
- Flying from about 39,000 feet, the crew will climb to about 44 or 45,000 feet to profile moisture plus wind speed and direction, deepening atmospheric data.
- Improved model forecasts are expected to give forecasters two to three days of actionable lead time, helping warn communities facing snowfall, flooding and beach erosion and potentially save lives.
- Jonathan Zawislak warned Friday of a 'really high impact event' with widespread icing, saying 'So moisture translates to rainfall, it translates to snowfall or the amount of ice that may fall in some of these areas'.
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