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In its latest weather bulletin, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said heatwave conditions would abate across India from May 21. Check the latest weather forecast here.

In 24 hours. >> you and your team has been flying in and out for days now. starting when it was off the coast. and now we know its a category 4. what about this storm has stood out to you the most? >> the biggest thing was that it was not very well organized at all when it was down by barbados. and the virgin islands. it suddenly became organized. the radar pictures look better as far as clarity. and then we just seen this dramatic increase in intensity in the last 24 hours. so like our last -- ...

Servants. everybody on the airplane has a job. the focus of the crew becomes just incredible when we have to actually do the hazardous stuff, get through these eye walls, make the center hits, get the drops on to get the pressure in the center and move onto the next fix. your crews that flew with us tonight saw the way we spent most of eight hours seat belted in turbulent conditions. every moment of the time we did it safely tonight. >> how intense were the winds? >> we saw flood level winds gus...

This storm a little, its rubbing right along the coast of cuba, that is a little bit of a disruptive factor but its still quite the storm. >> if it wasnt rubbing on the coast, out to sea would be stronger, right? more intense? >> theres every reason it would be? its getting a good source of warm water right now, very low sheer. beautiful ray v radar structure if you like that thing but its not beautiful as far as what is ahead for florida. >> what type of data are you collecting right now and ho...

The center woor, we want to knot the lowest pressure is, of category four standards and we have a down-ward looking instrument that maps out surface winds. you want to know how strong the winds are blowing when youre a coastal resident so we map out 105 mile radio legs all around the storm, all directions so we provide that wind field to the hurricaine center, they turn it over to the emergency managers, the local officials and if everyone will just please heed the advice of those people, and wh...

Lot of different factors go into this. this is using slight aware. notice you can use the path of the flight. this is the last spot that they were able to track that flight. when we take a look alt the wind, here is that pyramid again, looking where we believe the flight may have gone down, ten miles an hour. we look at not only the surface winds, boat the upper level winds, most flights fly somewhere between 20 to 40,000 feet above the surface. so you have to take into account, multiple layers ...

Measured on this planet. hurricane hunters set to head into patricia over the next few hours to get more information about its strength. im joined now via skype by lieutenant colonel john talbott, the chief meteorologist for the 53rd weather reconnaissance squadron. if this is the strongest storm on record, why fly right into it? >> good afternoon. well, this is really the only way to determine what the actual intensity is. you have to measure that. we can make a good guess by satellite but airc...

Tropical pacific ocean, especially the central pacific and east pacific along the coast of peru. so one signal is you start to see above normal water temperatures at the surface. if those water temperatures are also above normal with depth, then that starts to have some power. >> theres this sort of energy thats kind of burbling, right, getting hotter and hotter and send the patterns across the world. >> you get started quickly enough, you get feedback where the changes in the ocean impact the s...

>> how often do these el ninos come? >> on average, anywhere between every three and seven years. >> every three and seven. its not like a comet, right, so we dont know if its coming regularly. what do we start looking for to sort of find out why are people increasingly confident thats what were headed toward? >> were looking for a few things. were looking at surface temperatures in parts of the tropical pacific ocean, especially the central pacific and east pacific along the coast of peru. so o...

Come? >> on average, anywhere between every three and seven years. >> every three and seven. its not like a comet, right, so we dont know if its coming regularly. what do we start looking for to sort of find out why are people increasingly confident thats what were headed toward? >> were looking for a few things. were looking at surface temperatures in parts of the tropical pacific ocean, especially the central pacific and east pacific along the coast of peru. so one signal is you start to see a...