“Itâs like a rollercoaster except you donât know when that big drop or rise is going to happen” NOAA/Hurricane Research Division
When he turned up for his first flight into a hurricane in 1997, had fair warning about what he was getting into. His boss, he says, was known as a âseven-baggerâ â someone who had filled up seven air-sickness bags on one flight. Dunion is a meteorologist with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), based in Miami, Florida. Heâs one of a handful of scientists who carry out research flights that cut…
