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Sounds. You're listening to crowd science from the BBC World Service. I'm Marnie Chesterton and I'm just about to fly into a hurricane for science.

This may be the most extreme thing crowd science has ever done,

but for the scientists and pilots on board,

it's all in the day's work. We're with NOAA the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration they're basically the US government's

weather people and specifically we're with their hurricane hunters and we've just taken off from a base in Florida.

My name is Captain Christie Twining, I'm the aircraft commander of the NOAA Gulf Shum Corps Hurricane Hunter aircraft.

Today's plan is to skirt around a hurricane which involves flying all the way up the

East Coast of the United States from Florida to New York and back.

That hurricane is called Florence. We recorded this program in the hours before it hit North Carolina, which is why teams of

hurricane hunters like Christie were flying into it to study and track its path.

Seats on this plane are at a premium.

Loads of scientists, politicians and members of the press want to see this work in action.

But Crowd Science's persistent begging got us the very last two seats on Noah's final flight into Florence

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