forecasting the storm. we provide the data they need to be able to make those forecasts as accurately as possible. major, i appreciate all the work you and others are doing right now. thank you very much for talking to us. okay. thank you. we re going to be hearing more shortly on the dimensions of this. from someone crunching the data, major dehart is actually gathering information for the hurricane center. it already pummeled islands leaving complete devastation in the wake. a woman says her homeland looks like a nuclear bomb was dropped on it. i spoke with her a short time ago. josephine, what was it like for you when the storm was at its worst? i think it s so incomprehensible. the significance of feeling the immense pressure at the time when it was at its worst. you know, we live in the
some of the information on irma comes from storm chasing planes flying above and sometimes directly into the storm. just before air, i spoke with air force reserve flight meteorologist jeremy dehart. you flew in the hurricane last night. you still have planes up tonight. is the storm maintaining its strength? it is, actually. it s kind of unprecedented that it is maintains a strength, for such a strong storm, a category 5 for almost three days now. it s the strongest category strongest storm to come out of the atlantic on record, in the atlantic ocean. so it s pretty amazing that it s been able to maintain a strength for this long. what about its organization? any signs that it may be slowing down at all? the forecast track is pretty spot-on the last couple of days. national hurricane center has it