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People are very emotional because this scientist's ashes were scattered in the eye of Hurricane Milton

People are very emotional because this scientist's ashes were scattered in the eye of Hurricane Milton

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the person who flies planes into hurricanes to collect data about them.

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This video of them flying Miss Piggy (yes, that's the name of the plane) into Hurricane Milton is currently going viral and it's pretty wild to see what these people are going through in the name of science!

Twitter: @NOAA_HurrHunter

Now we learn that NOAA has paid tribute to a legendary radar scientist and researcher named Peter Dodge in a truly unconventional but strangely romantic way.

Twitter: @NOAA_HurrHunter

They threw his ashes into Milton's eye:

Twitter: @MichaelRLowry

People are getting emotional about the whole thing.

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“I’m not crying, you’re crying,” this person said.

Twitter: @GeniusSykoSis

“That’s poetic. Forever in the wind,” another person said.

Twitter: @KileyWrestling

Others call it the metaliest thing they've ever heard.

Twitter: @badgertastical

“You may be cool, but you're not at the 'put your ashes in the eye of the hurricane' level of cool.”

Twitter: @BrianWillott

This person even found a journal written by Dodge titled “The Kinematic Structure of a Hurricane with Sea Level Pressure Less than 900 mb,” which is fitting because Milton's pressure fell below that 900 mb.

Twitter: @kesters2

Ultimately, I think we can all agree: “What a spectacular way to send off one of your own.”

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