So this was aboard my second flight into Hurricane Ian.

Back in September of 2022, Hurricane Ian was making its way directly towards the Florida

Coast.

And while most people were searching for ways to get out of the Florida area, Nick Underwood

and his Noah crew were flying straight into the eye of the storm.

In this video, we're going through the eye wall of Hurricane Ian and we're watching the

radars.

We see that, you know, we can see the eye of the storm, but the eye wall just keeps building

in front of us.

The video that Nick is describing is what you are hearing right now.

The woosh and whore of what it sounded like inside that hurricane plane.

And when the video was posted to social media, it pretty much went viral.

Many people were left wondering why exactly someone would fly into a hurricane.

Oh, here goes the sauce.

There goes the bits.

Holy cow.

And that was a big drop.

That was the biggest toll that I ever felt on a hurricane flight.

I'm Dylan Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

Today, we're talking to Nick Underwood, one of the hurricane hunters for the National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration.

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