The data collected from yesterday’s flight showed a steep SST gradient along Dora’s track. Last night NHC downgraded Dora to a tropical storm.
Today NOAA43 is scheduled to fly another mission into TS Dora with a take-off time 17UTC. Dora has weakened considerably over the cooler waters. The mission today will be to sample the decaying system and to capture information on the SSTs.
The image below shows the proposed flight pattern.
