American scientific and regulatory agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft penetrated the eye of Hurricane Melissa on Tuesday, and captured the storm's 22-mile-wide clear centre, as the Category 5 hurricane barrelled toward Jamaica with sustained winds of 175 mph. The once-in-a-lifetime experience, said those on board, was mesmerising, but also poignant.
"It was humbling, mesmerising and, surprisingly, poignant—equal parts scientifically stunning and horrifying from a humanitarian standpoint," Matthew Cappucci, an American meteorologist who was on the plane that flew through the eye of Hurricane Me
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