Not exact matches
But the scenario is almost exactly the same both times: The travelers head up the mountain trail and encounter a
fierce storm that
forces them to either take shelter (as in The Hobbit) or turn back (as in The Fellowship of the Ring).
With a rise in the overall temperature of the ocean, ocean - borne
storms such as tropical
storms and hurricanes, which get their
fierce and destructive energy from the warm waters they pass over, could increase in
force.
While NOAA relies on the Air
Force Reserve's «Hurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the
fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Doppler radar.