ORLANDO, Fla. – There is no offseason for the Hurricane Hunters.
In the cold season, they do training missions, research, and even investigate winter storms.
Following an Arctic blast that sent most of Central Florida to freezing or below, a second system could bring snow to parts of the Southeast, including the Florida panhandle.
While this won’t be anything like the historic Deep South snow event of 2025, whether flakes will fly or not depends on a highly uncertain track.
This is where the Hurricane Hunters come in.
Better data leads to better forecasting. Period. That is the biggest thing holding back more accurate forecasts.
Data is limited at best over the open waters of the Gulf or Atlantic.
Being able to sample the developing system and the environment around it will lead to better forecasts.
That data is then ingested into weather models to better help forecast where a storm will develop and how it may impact people.
For this event, an area of low pressure is expected to develop off the southeast corner of the U.S. Sunday.
Two Hurricane Hunter missions are scheduled, with the first one taking off Friday evening.