NOAA’s G-IV hurricane hunter jet is getting ready to take off from Grantley Adams Int’l Airport in Barbados to fly around Hurricane Danny. The proposed flight track is shown below. They will depart at 1:30PM local time and fly an eight hour mission around Danny. The goal of this flight is to capture as much data as they can using the tail Doppler radar onboard. The dots on the flight track (shown in green) represent the aircraft turn points. The red dots in the figure show the locations that launch weather balloons twice a day while the purple dots are the locations that launch balloons once a day.
