Amazing photo of huricane eye wall

[NCNitro]

I found this amazing photo of hurricane Katrina's eye wall when it was a category 5 hurricane. I thought you guys might like to see it.

Hurricane Katrina eyewall images taken on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, during a NOAA P-3 hurricane hunter flight at the time the storm was a Category Five hurricane. Please credit “NOAA.”

 

[retarded pilot]

i guess you dont want me hunting down storms.....that just looks like fairly ordinary clouds you see out the window of a jumbo jet to me...

 

[4u2nv]

Never flown in a plane, so either way, it looks cool as hell to me! thats sweet!

 

[mr_bob]

Yeah that looks cool as hell i would love to do that for a living but i would be afraid that i might crash and i wouldnt want to go through all that training

 

[jetmechG550]

This poor guy never gets any credit, all you here of are the P3's.
Meet Gonzo (that's a little gonzo painted under the pilot's a panel) the hurricane hunter, it's a modified G-IV.

BTW, NC, nice picture, where did you find it?

 

[NCNitro]

At www.noaa.gov there were a few others of Katrina's eye wall. They have an archive of other storm photos as well.

heres the link to there photo library...

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html

 

[sweetdiesel]

That is a sweet photo. Its amazing how mother nature can be so beautiful and yet so violent at the same time.

 

[NCNitro]

I was thinking the same thing SD. Heres another one of Katrinas eye wall...

Photo courtesy of NOAA

 

[greenwing7]

so to get these pics they actually fly down INTO the eye and take a horizontal picture of the clouts right??