How High-Tech Drones Are Tracking the World’s Most Dangerous Hurricanes | WSJ

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As storms begin to batter the East and West coasts, officials rely on NOAA to predict storm paths and track hurricanes. But NOAA doesn’t just use satellites – it also uses drones to track storms.

Gliders are torpedo-shaped drones that dive underneath the ocean’s surface to track water temperature. Saildrones track what’s happening on the surface of the ocean including wave height, wind speed and salinity. Aerial drones can be launched directly into the eye of a hurricane to give a wealth of new data about how these storms are intensifying.

WSJ explains the tech behind these three important drones and looks at how NOAA uses the data to predict storms.

0:00 Drones into hurricanes
0:42 Gliders
2:15 Saildrones
3:35 Aerial drones

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Incredible tech! Stay safe everyone 🌪️

AndreaDoesYoga
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Hi WSJ👋👋👋, good evening, 👍always first👍😜

SorminaESar
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We need *more data* on *Sharknados* next. No one likes *global swarming*

derrekvanee
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The two water drones i can understand....but how do they recover the aerial drones?

Shinzon
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as someone who loves hiking in thunderstorms i would love to fly in one of those planes, so cool..

JJadx
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I wonder if airships could be set to autonomously fly in certain parts of the atmosphere for long periods of time to take measurements for groups like NOAA. Obviously not into hurricanes but I bet long term data measured on a real time basis could be useful.

CausticLemons
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I wonder if AI robots would turn down the mission.

jasonyu
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Every kid/youtuber/DIY enthusiast plays with these things all the time - and the geologists making 'news' out of this...
Are You THAT Underfunded?!?!

bored
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Ukraine: Now where can we put the warhead

colekarrh
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But yet we are not able to predict the path of storms and predict rain accurately? 😅😂

RajA-
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4 story building? .. as if all 4 story buildings had the same hight.

CHMichael
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Must be fun collecting junk data that doesn't predict and produce any meaningful outcome

maemilev