Hurricane Irma - 2017-09-09 - 7:03 a.m. - WSVN
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[0:00] don't want to be either east or west of
[0:02] the center collecting data to calculate
[0:04] its movements is a big task this is
[0:07] what's called a drop wind sand and there
[0:09] are more than two dozen of these on the
[0:11] plane they measure pressure temperature
[0:14] humidity and wind speed and they will
[0:16] actually go into this tube right here
[0:18] and be ejected from the plane as we pass
[0:20] through the eye of hurricane
[0:23] Irma once this shoot is out of the way
[0:25] and that beam of light is actually able
[0:27] to go across to the other side to the
[0:29] sensor we get a launch detect on our
[0:31] station saying that that s is good the
[0:33] information instantly beamed back to
[0:35] computers on board the P3 Orion aircraft
[0:39] and pushed back to the National
[0:40] Hurricane Center for forecasting part
[0:43] that's overwater is very strong uh very
[0:46] well defined eye about a 30 m across eye
[0:50] uh hurricane force winds 50 Mi all the
[0:53] way around the storm out from the
[0:55] center 7 News cameras capturing one of
[0:58] the final three lights through the
[1:01] massive eye of the storm all right folks
[1:03] we are in the eye of hurricane Irma
[1:05] great opportunity to look out the window
[1:07] 30 miles wide and a turbulent trip to
[1:10] get there the best opportunity to get a
[1:12] good read on the catastrophic storm on
[1:15] this plane with two Doppler Radars
[1:17] attached and all the other tools on
[1:19] board the data tells a troubling story
[1:23] all of the evacuation orders are are
[1:25] exactly well placed hopefully
[1:27] everybody's responding to them because
[1:29] this is is a real bad storm passing
[1:32] through the through the center and as we
[1:34] exit up here on this