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NOAA studies hurricanes using high-tech drones and other amazing tech

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A new array of tools to measure conditions inside one of nature's most fearsome storms.

The StreamSondes carry sensors to measure some of the harshest conditions on Earth in the eyewall of a hurricane.

The aim is to improve forecasts for a hurricane’s formation, its track, its intensity and the likelihood that it might rapidly intensify.

The StreamSonde is a lighter and smaller take on the dropsonde, a bundle of instruments in a large cylinder to measure conditions inside a hurricane.

The research program also includes uncrewed aircraft systems being developed to fly into a hurricane’s strongest winds for a sustained period, sending back a stream of data.

The Black Swift SO is NOAA 's smallest drone, weighing only three pounds .

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