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Storm chaser pukes on-air while flying through Hurricane Melissa

An intrepid storm chaser threw up while taking a bumpy ride through Hurricane Melissa.

Matthew Cappucci, a senior meteorologist with MyRadarWX, was in the middle of trying to describe Hurricane Melissa when he started to lose his nerve and puked into a can.

Cappucci assured viewers he was fine five minutes after being sick on the flight. CNN

“Puking on national TV. I think my television career has peaked,” Cappucci wrote on X.

In the comments, Cappucci promised that he “knew what [he] was into” and that the ordeal “was worth it 10 fold” even after dry heaving in front of the world.


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“Also rest assured I was fine 5 minutes later,” he wrote.

Hurricane Melissa dragged in winds reaching a whopping 185 mph that forced airports to close and most flights to redirect away from the island nation — save for storm chasers like Cappucci, who sought to get as close as they could.

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