MIAMI (CNN) -- For the second hurricane season in a row, weather forecasters are using an improved way of predicting the path and strength of those storms.

A weather probe, dropped from an airplane, allows hurricane forecasters to narrow the margin of error in their predictions.

Susan Candiotti has the details of this state-of-the-art device.

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Susan Candiotti reports from the National Hurricane Center
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