2017 Hurricane Awareness Tour at RDU - Participating Aircraft

Fresh Snow and Temperature Outlook Ahead of Christmas Day

If you are looking for fresh snow by Christmas morning or are curious about potential travel disruptions, the best chances for at least 1" of new snowfall early this week exist across the mountainous West, Great Lakes, and Northeast. Otherwise, temperatures this last full week of December will average above normal for much of the lower 48 states. Read More >

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

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Participating Aircraft

The Raleigh, NC stop on the Hurricane Awareness Tour will feature two Hurricane Hunter Aircraft.

The WC-130J is one of ten such aircraft used by the U.S. Air Force Reservists from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, 403rd Wing, located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS. Air crews fly directly into the core of tropical cyclones to gather data critical for forecasting tropical cyclone intensity and landfall.

The NOAA G-IV is part of the agency's fleet of highly specialized research and operational aircraft operated, managed, and maintained by the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and based at MacDill AFB in Tampa, FL. It flies at high altitude around and ahead of the tropical cyclone, gathering critical data to go into the hurricane forecast models.

Fresh Snow and Temperature Outlook Ahead of Christmas Day

2017 East Coast Hurricane Awareness Tour

at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU)

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

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Participating Aircraft