Dramatic photo shows a sunny moment of zen in the chaos of Hurricane Irma

The sun peeks over the eye of the storm in a beautiful photo.
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Sasha Lekach
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Amid all the stormy imagery coming from space and the pros flying through the storm, Hurricane Hunters found a moment of calm in the eye of Hurricane Irma.

The U.S. Air Force Reserve flight team caught the moment Wednesday afternoon when a sun flare peaked over the eye of the storm.

Just don't look down over the storm wall -- the chaos of the Category 5 storm, which is moving over the Caribbean toward Florida and Puerto Rico, is below with winds blowing 185 mph.

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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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