Meteorologist Pukes on CNN While Flying Through Hurricane Melissa

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Published 1 month ago in Funny

If you haven’t heard, there’s a Category 5 hurricane currently tearing apart Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa is the fifth strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic and according to Chris Martz, a meteorologist and policy analyst at CFACT, it’s “approaching the limits of what physics can theoretically produce in a tropical cyclone.”

Which is to say, it’s huge and incredibly dangerous.

Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci found this out the hard way yesterday when he flew into the eye of Melissa on a storm-chasing mission. CNN aired footage of him losing his lunch into a cup mid-flight as the plane was battered by extreme turbulence. Melissa’s winds have been clocked upwards of 220 mph, with a sustained wind speed of 185 mph.

While the footage captured from their mission is incredible, if not terrifying, it is a great reminder that while turbulence is scary, it isn’t dangerous.

Being in the path of a hurricane, however, is an entirely different monster.

Be safe, Jamaica.