Hurricane Hugo was steered by strong high pressure off the coast of New England and a low-pressure system in the Gulf States. This created a direct path to the Carolinas. The storm reorganized and ...

a 1989 mission into Hurricane Hugo, where the P-3 Orion aircraft endured accelerations peaking at 7.86 meters per second squared—about 25 feet per second of jolt. That’s over double what would ...