September usually means the the threat of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean from Central America to the northeastern United States. Technology has been essential in tracking and warning heavily populated areas of an impending storm. Tracking the storms, however, has become increasingly difficult during the 2007 season.
In May of this year hurricanes announced they would be using stealth technology to "fly under the radar." The technology is very similar to what the US military's Stealth Bombers use, making them undetectable to radar.
A frustrated Horace Harrier, meteorologist at the Macon, GA-based Whether Channel (Weather Channel's biggest competitor), said,"They are impossible to track now with radar, we actually have to use planes to fly overhead and manually monitor their movement. They're sneaky."
Hurricane Gloria, from the late 1980's, is the unofficial leader of the AHA(Atlantic Hurricane Association) taking power in a 2004 coup. "This stealth technology is...pretty cool. My winds gust over 80 mph just thinking about it," said Gloria.
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