When a hurricane makes landfall and no one sees it...

"according to a century of National Hurricane Center reports, the decade with the largest number of hurricanes to come ashore in the United States was the 1940s, and that hurricane frequency has declined since then."
--noted by "Prominent group of scientists" frequently cited in articles attempting to downplay the global warming-hurricane link.

"As a unit of the Joint Hurricane Warning Service, the Navy has been performing aerial hurricane reconnaissance since 1943."
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"In 1955 the Hurricane Hunters received the first of the WC-121N Lockheed Super Constellations and by 1958 the Neptunes were replaced by the "Connies". New techniques were devised and weather reconnaissance underwent a radical change."
--Airborne early warning squadron history

This hurricane season is keeping some prominent scientists busy.