Watch: Timelapse video shows plane flying into the eye of Hurricane Florence
The ‘Hurricane Hunter’ plane flew in and out of the centre of the hurricane to gather data about the storm.
Time-lapse video of a #NOAA WP-3D Hurricane Hunter (#NOAA42) flight into Hurricane #Florence on Sept. 10, 2018. Get the latest on the storm at https://t.co/MlZk25kG0d. Credit: Nick Underwood/NOAA pic.twitter.com/FQ3RJMKVUU
— NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (@NOAA_HurrHunter) September 11, 2018
After the NASA video of Hurricane Florence taken from outer space, another video, this time by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), provided a terrifying close-up of the storm.
A team in a special four-engine aircraft of the US Air Force, called Hurricane Hunters, flew in and out of the eye of the hurricane to provide data on the speed, intensity and structure of the storm for the National Hurricane Center of the US.
Florence, now downgraded to a category 2 hurricane, is expected to cause massive rainfall in the US states of North and South Carolina, Virginia and others after it makes landfall on Thursday.