{"id":22744,"date":"2022-05-24T20:40:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=22744"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:40:19","slug":"hurricane-hunters-are-getting-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/05\/24\/hurricane-hunters-are-getting-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane hunters are getting ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hurricane hunters are getting ready for what\u2019s being predicted to be an above-average hurricane season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pkIgzk7Hgkk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re ready to go no matter what,\u201d Commanding Officer of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center Capt. Chris Kerns said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict 14 to 21 named storms will develop in the Atlantic this year, the organization announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow many storms there may or may not be, is just a prediction. We&#8217;re going to be ready to respond and ready to react,\u201d Kerns said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kerns told us that NOAA hurricane hunters have been preparing for this hurricane season since the last season ended. \u201cEnsuring that the crews are trained, the aircraft is ready, maintained, prepared to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"660\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/download-6.jpg?resize=880%2C660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/download-6.jpg?w=880&amp;ssl=1 880w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/download-6.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/download-6.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><figcaption>Miss Piggy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three of the nine aircraft at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omao.noaa.gov\/explore\/facilities\/noaa-aircraft-operations-center\">NOAA Aircraft Operations Center<\/a>&nbsp;in Lakeland are used for hurricane hunting. NOAA hurricane hunters are tasked with either doing research or reconnaissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hurricane hunters are in the storm environment for about six hours, collecting data including strength, pressure, and temperature and identifying its center. Kerns said some of the worst flights are tropical storms trying to become a hurricane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose become the most challenging regimes of flight because you\u2019re constantly adjusting power and constantly adjusting the nose attitude to try and make sure the plane stays leveled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the hurricane hunters are in the air, data is transmitted in real-time to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">National Hurricane Center<\/a>\u00a0for forecasting and models that are used by local meteorologists. What hurricane hunters do is risky yet rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause our crews go out and take those risks, the benefit is this really great information that we implore people to pay attention to,&#8221; Kerns said. &#8220;So, when an emergency manager orders an evacuation, we say please do it because we went out and collected all this data.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane hunters are getting ready for what\u2019s being predicted to be an above-average hurricane season. \u201cWe\u2019re ready to go no matter what,\u201d Commanding Officer of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[2898],"class_list":["post-22744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-hurricane-hunters-are-getting-ready"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}