Amid all the stormy imagery coming from space and the pros flying through the storm, Hurricane Hunters found a moment of calm in the eye of Hurricane Irma.
The U.S. Air Force Reserve flight team caught the moment Wednesday afternoon when a sun flare peaked over the eye of the storm.
A sun flare inside the eye of #hurricaneIrma during one of today's flightshttp://pic.twitter.com/TZU8wf7lfF
— Hurricane Hunters (@53rdWRS) September 6, 2017
Just don't look down over the storm wall — the chaos of the Category 5 storm, which is moving over the Caribbean toward Florida and Puerto Rico, is below with winds blowing 185 mph. Read more...
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