2021 Atlantic Hurricane Mission: 24 Hours in Hurricane Sam 

This saildrone has no microphone. What would be its scientific purpose?

@@arctic_haze I think it would be more entertaining than anything else. Still a wonderful video

the scientific purpose would be "to hear it"....lol

I belive the drones don't have microphones. They really don't need them for weather Data collection

The measurement is in feet not meters.

I don't believe it actually passed through the eye itself. It passed through the eyewall, which is a region near the center of a developed tropical cyclone where the towering thunderstorms that power the system are located. The updrafts responsible for that wall of cumulonimbus clouds reduce surface pressure, causing air to try to rush in, only to be deflected by the Coriolis Effect into a circle of powerful, rotating winds. The eye of a tropical cyclone is relatively calm *on land,* but not so much at sea. Although winds are reduced, waves coming into the eye have been whipped in different directions by the wind, which is rotating in a tight circle in the eyewall. This can actually create cross seas, where waves are extremely choppy (since they're coming from every direction) and may even interfere constructively at some intersections, creating enormous, potentially deadly peaks and valleys. If they'd gotten a video of the eye, it would have been fascinating, but nowhere near as tranquil as it might sound.

@@NyanCatHerder Wow! That's fascinating! Thank you!

@@NyanCatHerderI've never considered that hurricanes run on a lightning engine but the idea is fascinating. Thanks for your post.

I like the music!

Would have been better if they let the natural audio play.