A scientist who’s flown into 18 big storms says Hurricane Michael had the craziest turbulence

Hurricane Michael was a powerful Category 4 storm when it made landfall on the Florida panhandle last week — the worst hurricane that area had ever seen.

Louis Uccellini, the director of the National Weather Service (NWS), called it a "worst case scenario" for the area. "Stay inside & survive!" he warned on Twitter.

But Jon Zawislak didn't heed that warning. Instead, he flew straight into the eye of the storm.

Zawislak holds a PhD in atmospheric science and works as a hurricane field program director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As part of that job, he was on the final forecasting flight into Michael as the storm approached land.