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Jonathan Shannon, Public Affairs Specialist for NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, revealed the NOAA WP-3D Orion aircraft has been doing these trips for almost half a century in the name of science.
Shannon told the New York Post that the team has to do these trips because the team on the ground ‘cannot get this important data our forecasters need at this scale and resolution any other way’.
“We basically take a weather station to the weather,” he said.
“The best analogy I’ve heard is it is like riding an old wooden roller coaster through a car wash.”
