There have been a number of interesting articles in the news lately due to the hurricanes. Bonnie coverage / photos: CNN.com starnews.wilmington.net People wait out Bonnie in Bald Head Lighthouse http://www.charlotte.com/observer/pub/037361.htm Forecasters' trouble with predicting hurricanes: http://www.gatewayva.com/rtd/dailynews/virginia/predic28.shtml And finally, I hesitate to forward this without a hard reference, a number of people heard about and have been asking about this article and unfortunately the person who forwarded it to me can no longer recall where they got it from, and a search of every news organization I could find on the web concluded that the article doesn't exist. It mentions a couple of controversial topics without any scientific elaboration, including a snow squall and strange hurricane eye behaviour in Bonnie. If any of you can find the original article please let me know. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientists fly into the eye of the storm NASA scientists were flying scientific missions into and over the hurricane as it hit the shore, and initially reported that Bonnie appeared to be birthing a second hurricane near its top. But a return flight in a NASA ER-2 jet showed no signs of a second hurricane. "In Bonnie, the eye was not a cylinder as you would expect," weather scientist Ed Zipser said. Instead, he said it was doglegged, making it appear that there were two eyes -- or two hurricanes -- when in fact there was only one. The team of NASA and other U.S. government scientists flew into the hurricane to study lightning and perhaps gather additional data on several other anomalies, including why the hurricane's eye has repeatedly failed to hold its shape. On one flight the eye appeared to "blink" at the scientists as it disappeared and reappeared. "Bonnie is like nothing we would expect," said Zipser. On an earlier flight, one of the planes actually ran into a snow storm inside the hurricane. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "Beware of the women who promise blue skies; There's tornado warnings in the backs of their eyes." --Boiled In Lead || ICQ No. 136832 ||