Hurricane hunters get an above-the-clouds view of the parade of storms in the West

AccuWeather 2023-01-17

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As storms repeatedly hammered the western U.S. through mid-January, pilots whose normal job is surveying hurricanes took to the skies to survey an atmospheric river instead.

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