The Hurricane Hunters send five planes to study 93L A fleet of five hurricane hunter aircraft are headed to the Caribbean today to intercept 93L, according to the NOAA/HRD blog and the NHC recon Plan of the Day. Two Air Force C-130s are headed to the islands, and will begin flying alternating missions into 93L on Thursday afternoon. One NOAA P-3 aircraft (N42RF) will land today in St Croix, USVI, and will lay a pattern of ocean probes (AXBTs) on Thursday in the projected path of the storm. The other NOAA P-3 (N43RF) will land in Barbados Wednesday, and is scheduled to fly a sequence of Doppler Radar missions beginning Thursday night. The NOAA Gulfstream jet (N49RF) is also heading to Barbados today, and will begin flying Synoptic Surveillance missions (dropping a series of 20+ dropsondes surrounding the storm) beginning at 1:30 pm EDT Thursday, with another mission scheduled on Friday. A little heads-up from Wunderground.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:09:30 +0000