NOAA Coming to Hawaii to Collect Storm Data
NOAA is sending an airplane to Hawaii and Alaska to monitor winter storms, according to a statement released Monday. The information they collect will be used to improve forecasting of potentially extreme weather across the entire country.
The Anchorage Daily News reports:
The plane will be based out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam through February. NOAA plans to move the plane to Anchorage in March before returning it to its home base in Tampa, Fla.
The federal agency has conducted Pacific winter storm reconnaissance missions every year since the late 1990s.
