Check out these brave people who risk it all to report it all, Simon Brewer and Juston Drake are meteorologists and storm chasers who are featured on The Weather Channel’s series, Storm Riders.
Both Meteorologists shared a viral video on Twitter of Juston went into Hurricane Irma to measure the wind speed in the storm’s eyewall. In a later tweet he said wind speeds were around 117 mph or 188 km/h.
@JustonStrmRider tearing it up! pic.twitter.com/VhC97GZJBa
— Simon Brewer (@SimonStormRider) September 10, 2017
@SimonStormRider getting wind measurements out in the eyewall as well. Got a 117 mph wind gust. pic.twitter.com/PVEPP8FbtB
— Juston Drake (@JustonStrmRider) September 10, 2017