Hurricane predictions difficult without plane and cruise ship data

While you’ve probably heard about the positive environmental effects that emerge as an unintended consequence of the international coronavirus travel bans, you may not have expected this to have impeded our ability to detect and plan for extreme weather events. The advanced systems onboard commercial cruise liners and passenger jets collect a lot of information about the climate in the more obscure regions of the globe and meteorologists are now highlighting that it is the second most important data, behind satellites, for extreme weather predictions.