Hooray! Article mentioned Michigan used ballons to study ice storms. California\Nevada was using balloons to study extreme hot air density. Phenomenon known to stop lift on helicopters and aircraft during hot temperatures and summer heatwaves. My feeling, a few recent helicopter accidents seen in the news should have benefited via continued study.
Realtime is the key. Example- instead of having a no-fly-day in effect, aircraft could have a measurable less-risk fly window when needed.
Some predictions show it turning inland. To the east is Central Mexico and Mexico City -- which its terrain is a flat ancient lake bed. Yikes.
Yeah it was bad. No iniki bad. But still bad. Niihau got smacked hard and some bad damage and flooding on Kauai, but this was another near miss just relative to population.
Real concern would have been if the track was another hundred or so miles south. West side Oahu jas maybe 50k people on it, and it's not at all prepared for a hurricane. One road in, one road out, 11 miles.
Got me curious so I looked up "Toronto not in Canada". There are several in the US as well as in Australia and the UK. The headline is still clunky.
WTF with Canada's Toronto phrasing. Is this clanker?