Its another flight for the P3 as it continues to gather data in Hurricane Maria. Take off is scheduled for 1:00 AM ET (0500 UTC) from Lakeland, FL. This flight is tasked by NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center. This means that they are interested in the data collected from this flight. The data will go into the weather forecast models. Below is the planned flight track. The dots on the flight track below (shown in green) represent the P3 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.
