Wow! Check out this incredible footage captured by Saildrone Explorer SD 1078 in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Fiona Sept. 22, 2022. Hurricane Fiona is the first Category 4 storm of the 2022 season. It's churning up 50-foot waves and winds measured over 100 mph!
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In partnership with NOAA, Saildrone Inc. deployed seven ocean drones to collect data from hurricanes during the 2022 hurricane season with the goal of improving hurricane forecasting. Saildrones are equipped with a special “hurricane wing,” which looks like a hard sail, to withstand the extreme wind conditions encountered in storms as they gather data from the near-surface ocean and atmosphere in real-time. The data is then used to improve our understanding and prediction of tropical cyclone intensity changes and advance our knowledge of the ocean-atmosphere interactions that fuel them.
