Jose Partagas (1935-1997) entire life was dedicated to the study of hurricanes. One paragraph of an article about him follows, with the URL to the entire article below that.
In August of 1998, Jose's friends brought his ashes aboard a research flight into Hurricane Danielle, located about 400 miles northeast of Miami. As they flew through the storm, the scientists held a brief ceremony. Then they sent Jose's ashes in a cloth sack through a chute out the bottom of the plane. In a matter of seconds, Jose Partagas was united with one of the swirling storms that had fascinated him for more than 50 years.
http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/1998/11/17.html
Jose taught meteorology courses at the Univ. of Miami. One of the technical papers he had published (Monthly Weather Review) was titled:
Observed relationships between lunar tidal cycles and formation of hurricanes and tropical storms:
This paper can be viewed by clicking on the "partagas.pdf" link located on the following page:
http://www.hurricanevideo.citymax.com/lunar_cycles__storm_gene.html