predicting the hurricane

Weather forecasters monitor the world and nature around you.  Forecasters send up weather balloons to check the weather in the clouds.  After they have gotten their information, the balloons come down.  They use an anemometer to measure wind speed and force.  When a hurricane might hit your area in 48 hours, forecasters will issue a Hurricane Watch.  When a hurricane is coming within 24 hours, forecasters send out messages called Hurricane Warnings. 

      THIS IS A PICTURE OF  THE  TRACKING OF FLOYD.

Hurricane Hunters are pilots and crew members who fly airplanes into the middle of the hurricane to get more information about them.

This is the view from a hurricane hunter's airplane window while flying in the middle of a hurricane.

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