Caption:
The Hurricane Hunters answer the call to an early kickoff of this
year's hurricane season, which arrived nearly a month early with the
development of Subtropical Storm Andrea off the coast of Georgia. This
year, the state-of-the-art WC-130J aircraft will be equipped with the
Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer which allows the Citizen Airman
of the Hurricane Hunters to constantly measure surface winds directly
below the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. James Pritchett)
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