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You take, you know, probably the worst turbulence you've kind of experienced and multiple it by about 10,
把你曾经经历过的最严重的气流乘以10倍，
and that's the potential that we're going into.
就是我们正经历的势。
That's the voice of Justin Kibbey.
说话的人是贾斯汀·基比。
He's a pilot.
他是个飞行员。
My job title says Hurricane Hunter pilot.
我的工作名称是飓风猎人飞行员。
Yeah, he flies planes through hurricanes.
没错，他驾驶飞机穿越飓风。
It's all in the name of science.
工作的全部内容都是以科学的名义。
He works for NOAA.
他在NOAA工作。
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
也就是美国国家海洋和大气管理局。
These missions are for data gathering, to track and study hurricane paths and movements.
我的飞行任务是收集数据，跟踪和研究飓风路径和移动。
But Justin Kibbey and I aren't talking about data.
但贾斯汀·基比和我聊的可不是数据。
We're talking about what it feels like to fly an airplane through a hurricane.
我们要说的是驾驶飞机穿越飓风的感觉。
It starts to get cloudy.
天开始变阴了。
And once you're in the storm, you'll start to hear rain hitting the windscreen.
穿行在暴风雨中，你就会听到雨打在挡风玻璃上的声音。
It can be very loud.
声音可能很大。
It surrounds you, it surrounds the whole plane.
雨声充斥在你的周围，充斥在飞机的周围。
Probably the best way to describe it is if you have ever lived in a house with a tin roof.
如果你曾经住过铁皮屋顶的房子，这可能就是能够描述这种感觉的最好方式。
It's hard to hold a conversation inside.
飞机里很难展开对话。
These are the conditions Hurricane Hunters fly through every time they go on a mission,
这些都是飓风猎人每次执行任务时都要经历的状况，
because the point of flying through a hurricane is to fly through it and get to the eye.
因为穿越飓风的目的就是要穿越后直达飓风眼。
And he was telling me about the first time he ever did that.
他为我讲述了他第一次穿越飓风的故事。
And that was 2010.
当时是2010年。
We were flying into Hurricane Earl.
我们正飞进飓风。
What's the latest information we're getting about Earl, Chad?
查德，有关厄尔，我们掌握的最新消息是什么？
135 miles per hour and still getting stronger.
每小时135英里，而且正在变强。
And then, I remember breaking out into the eye of the storm.
然后，我记得我们闯进了厄尔的飓风眼。
Everything just kinda stopped.
一切都停滞了。
Everything.
一切。
The noise stopped, the lightning stopped.
噪音停止了，闪电停止了。
It was pitch black out, you could see stars above you.
一片漆黑之下，你可以看到天上的星星。
It was really beautiful, serene;
真的很美，很祥和；
it was quiet,
很安静
and it was a holy shit moment.
那一刻真要命。
What did we just do?
我们刚才做了什么？
What just happened?
刚才发生了什么？
And a bolt of lightning lit up the entire outbound eye wall where I could see it visually.
我们看到，一道闪电照亮了整个外风眼墙。
And all of a sudden, I was like, "Oh man, that's gonna be scary."
突然间，我想，“哦，天哪，那会很可怕的。”
It was a rough ride on the way out, but I'll never forget it.
飞出飓风的过程很艰难，但我永远不会忘记。
It was probably one of the coolest that I've been on.
这可能是我经历过的最酷的旅程。
