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Atmospheric scientists in the US rode out the arrival of Hurricane Georges
this week in two specially reinforced trucks. The vehicles are fitted with
mobile radar generators that probed the hurricane as it came ashore. Joshua
Wurman of the University of Oklahoma and his colleagues have previously found
streaks of wind with speeds up to 80 kilometres per hour higher than the average
for a hurricane. This may explain localised areas of intense damage
(This Week, 2 May, p 15).