Pat Shingleton for July 27, 2008

• By PAT SHINGLETON
• WBRZ Chief Forecaster
• Published: Jul 27, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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Weather anniversaries are repeated in this space, and after Dolly, here’s a hurricane item. For the first time in meteorological history, Col. Joe Duckworth and Lt. Ralph O’Hair took off from Bryan Field near Galveston, on this date in 1943, and flew into a hurricane. Flying blindly through storms, turbulence, downdrafts and updrafts, their single-engine, A-6 trainer broke through the eye wall; entering its calm center. The only way out was through the storm. Bumped and bruised, the pilots landed at Bryan Field, refueled, picked up weather officer Lt. William Jones-Burdick and flew back into the storm. This flight was the first to gather meteorological data from a plane inside a hurricane. Fastcast: Hot, showery.

ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION:
TODAY: A Broiler (Sunny Icon) 96/75
MONDAY: Sticky (Partly Cloudy Icon) 96/76
TUESDAY: Steamy (Partly Cloudy Icon) 95/76
WEDNESDAY: Afternoon Showers (Partly Cloudy Icon) 95/75
THURSDAY: Thundery (Scattered Showers Icon) 94/75
FRIDAY:  Not as Showery  (Partly Cloudy Icon)  93/73