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**Hurricanes**

**Part IV of IV**

Measurements are made as they go right through the clouds into the eye. The eye can be anywhere from 10 to 100 miles wide. Once in the eye, the sky is almost clear, the sun is shining and there is little wind. This will not last as the plane flies through the eye into the other side of the hurricane.

The winds pick up quickly. This time they blow from the opposite direction. Once more the plane is banged about. The plane keeps going, right through the clouds and out of the storm.

Information gathered by the men in these planes is sent to the Hurricane Centers. Forecasters there know almost everything about the hurricane. They use the information to forecast how the storm will move. It may move in one direction today, another tomorrow.

When the weathermen decide the storm might reach land within two days, they issue a Hurricane Watch. As the storm moves closer to land, the forecasters send out a Hurricane Warning - a hurricane is expected to strike within 24 hours - get ready for it.

Today more people live near the seacoast than ever before. Most of them have lived there only a few years and have never been through a hurricane. They might not pay attention to warnings, but they should.

When the wind starts to knock down trees, the seas roll over the beaches and flooding spreads over the land, it's too late.

You most plan ahead. Your life and others will be saved when you know what to do.

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