Hurricane eye wind speed???

[Lutzdrone]

Anyone know what the wind speeds are in the eye of Hurricane. The calm area not the eye wall?

 

[lisadoc]

They're usually pretty light winds, like a normal day. However, the eye has to move directly over you to get this effect (meaning you're going to get hammered by the eye wall twice). Otherwise, it's a hurricane all the way through for you.

I suspect that you could take your MP out and fly during the eye, but it would probably only look like a stormy day off in the distance in most directions. Probably not very "cool" - the same lack of "awesomeness" that people thought they were going to capture during the total eclipse. I guess you could survey the damage thus far without worrying about the FAA's TFR but it's only half over at that point any way.

 

[HVYMTL]

I live in central Florida. I have my Mavic all packed up and will be taking it to the Emergency Operation Center at 4am tomorrow morning with me. I will be stationed there to support all of the IT needs during the Hurricane for at least 24hrs during the storm.
Anyone else that may still be in Florida pls be safe.

 

[lisadoc]

Here's what it looks like inside the eye.

 

[Lutzdrone]

The hurricane came through Lutz, Florida at night and the eye missed my location so never got to see it. I did see some videos from Naples , Florida where a drone went up in the eye of Irma.

 

[call-151]

Someone flew their drone in the eye:
Brian Emfinger on Twitter

 

[Jacknet007]

So did the weather channel...

 

[Joely-Bird]

Windy