Cyberflight

During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. Plugging this information into the NHC's computers can improve the forecast by up to 30%! The hurricane specialists are especially astounded by the dropwindsonde data, which reveals the central pressure dropped an incredible 42 millibars in only 12 hours. Their new warnings prompt civil defense and other emergency managers across the Florida panhandle to speed up evacuations.