{"id":35224,"date":"2023-08-28T21:10:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T01:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=35224"},"modified":"2023-08-28T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T01:10:17","slug":"lakeland-based-hurricane-hunters-to-fly-24-hour-operations-in-and-out-of-idalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/08\/28\/lakeland-based-hurricane-hunters-to-fly-24-hour-operations-in-and-out-of-idalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland-based Hurricane Hunters to fly 24-hour operations in and out of Idalia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gonzo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Gonzo and the crew are gearing up for Idalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is our high altitude aircraft,\u201d said Jonathan Shannon about NOAA\u2019s Gulf Stream 4 aircraft called \u201cGonzo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Shannon, public affairs specialist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, said two crews will be working 24-hour operations during Idalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One crew flies above the storm on the G-4, while a P-3 aircraft flies through the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miss Piggy N43RF with Altius drone
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\u201cThe reason we fly these aircraft is basically we\u2019re taking the weather station to the weather,\u201d said Shannon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aircraft collects data on conditions, including rain rates, wind shear, the structure of the storm, and its direction.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The P-3 planes also deploy dropsondes, which take a snapshot of conditions as they fall through the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOAA is still testing out its drone program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While drop-sondes take that snapshot, the drones can maneuver through dangerous areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnder 2,000, 1,000 or 500 feet above the surface of the water, that\u2019s where the interaction is happening with the warm moist air coming from the water, feeding that storm. So we really want to know what\u2019s going on with that interface, so we can figure out rapid intensification, how these storms transition from tropical storm to major hurricane or as they weaken,\u201d said Shannon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shannon called drones the \u201cnext frontier of data gathering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, crews, including pilots, technicians and meteorologists, will be flying through the storm as always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSort of like an old wooden roller coaster through a car wash. So you get your jilts and jumps. You get your big dips sometimes and then you\u2019re just rattling and vibrating. Then you\u2019ve got like the water hose hitting you as you go through,\u201d said Shannon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gonzo and the crew are gearing up for Idalia. \u201cThis is our high altitude aircraft,\u201d said Jonathan Shannon about NOAA\u2019s Gulf Stream 4 aircraft called \u201cGonzo.\u201d Jonathan Shannon, public affairs… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35220,"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":[5843],"class_list":["post-35224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-based-hurricane-hunters-to-fly-24-hour-operations-in-and-out-of-idalia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}