See planes, equipment Hurricane Hunters use when they fly into some of world's worst storms

LAKELAND, Fla. – Hurricane season is connected the horizon, and NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters are acceptable to alert into immoderate storms to support Americans safe.

FOX Weather Correspondent Brandy Campbell spoke with Capt. Nate Kahn, commanding serviceman of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, astir the Hurricane Hunters and what it’s similar to alert into a hurricane.

"Flying into the storms is an workout in, I’d telephone it, 9 hours of mild discomfort interspersed with 2 to 3 minutes of sheer and utter terror," Kahn said to Campbell.

Capt. Nate Kahn.

(Brandy Campbell / FOX Weather)

He noted how, sometimes, conditions are specified that the pilots are incapable to spot wherever they are going. Pilots besides person to safely navigate the storms, adjacent erstwhile conditions origin the craft to alert sideways.

"When you’re successful 200 mph winds, it takes a important space to support the level moving successful the close direction, which is portion of the magic," helium said.

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Despite these conditions, Hurricane Hunters persevere for the involvement of gathering life-saving information.

Kahn said that NOAA’s 2 P-3 Orion craft – affectionately called "Kermit" and "Miss Piggy" – person aboard a squad of astir 8 researchers that cod and process information astir the storms.

This information is past sent to NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, wherever the information is utilized by meteorologists to signifier forecasts for radical who mightiness beryllium affected by the storms that Hurricane Hunters are studying.

While meteorologists astatine the NHC are processing forecasts, Hurricane Hunters person a meteorologist arsenic portion of their team. This idiosyncratic helps the squad enactment harmless during the flight.

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Hurricane play for the Eastern Pacific Ocean begins May 15, and the play for the Atlantic Ocean begins connected June 1.