NOAA’s Hurricane hunter P3 aircraft is in flight and on its way to collect data inside Hurricane Irma. This eight-hour flight will gather atmospheric data that will go into NOAA’s weather forecast models. The flight took off at 4 PM ET (2000 UTC) from Barbados. Below is the proposed 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.
