Street scene in Miami, Florida. Three men on a golf course. Horses start race at Hialeah Race track. View from window of WB-29A in flight through stratiform clouds. View from ground near a building, of gathering storm clouds. Inside the building, U.S. Air Force personnel (military and civilian) of the Joint Hurricane Warning Center at work. Hand seen annotating a Weather chart, displaying isobars. Military meteorologists looking at weather reports (Grady Norton in background). Weather personnel gathered in a classroom setting. Using a sketch on a blackboard, a supervisor discusses movement of a tropical storm heading toward Cuba. Grady Norton, Meteorologist-in-charge.stands alone, looking down on weather data (not seen). A woman brings him a cup of coffee.
Flight crew hurries to a U.S. Navy PB4Y weather reconnaissance aircraft parked on a ramp. It has "HP2" written on its side. It is later seen in flight. Then a U.S. Air Force WB-29 is seen in flight, followed by a switch to the PB4Y (with HP2 on its side) again seen in flight.
A Control tower and beach at U.S. Naval Air Station Bermuda. Two U.S. sailors are seen on the beach. (A Military Air Transport Service-MATS- C-97 Stratofreighter is parked on a ramp in background.) One sailor is launching a large inflated balloon. Closeup of manual "Radiosonde, Type AN AMQ 10." The balloon in the air tethered to radiosonde equipment held by sailor. He releases it and the sailors pay out line as balloon ascends.
Women working at teletype machines in the Joint Hurricane Warning Service in Miami, Florida. Animated map shows communications links to sites in the Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast and Caribbean regions. A peaceful scene on the water in a Caribbean harbor. Weather instruments atop a building. Red Cross workers engaged in emergency communications.
Several WB-29A Weather Reconnaissance aircraft of the 53rd Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters). Their unique sampling fixture is seen atop their fuselages. These are stationed at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. The unit belongs to the Air Weather Service of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS). Aside from the aircraft, a few of their Squadron facilities are seen on the ramp.
Aerial view of a WB-29A from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters) in flight. It is flying between layers in stratiform cloud conditions. It banks gently to the left and descends slowly heading below the clouds, over water.
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