Here’s an interesting long-form story from CNN for those of you who, like me, are fascinated by the work that hurricane hunters do to monitor developing storms and collect information that can be used to predict future storm path and development. In this case, the hurricane hunters are taking measurements near the Cape Verde Islands where the storms come off of Africa and start their journey across the Atlantic. By doing this, they hope to improve future forecasts as the storms are just starting to form.

Hurricane hunters in Hurricane Irma on September 7, 2017