Mike Theiss
@MikeTheiss
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Intercepted 69 Tropical Cyclones since 1987. Founder of the H.E.R.V. Hurricane Eyewall Research Vehicle. @TheissTower #WindyPalmsProject
Key Largo, Florida
Joined July 2009
#WindyPalmsProject results: Wind sensor deployment height 15 feet near Holly Beach, Louisiana. MAX wind gust of 154 mph at 12:33. Lowest barometric pressure of 945mb at 12:36am. Watch the intense deployment during #HurricaneLaura on the new @NatGeoChannel TV series #Category6
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Hurricane Wilma slammed into South Florida 19 years ago today, on October 24, 2005. I documented the chaos in Miami Beach and captured extreme wind gusts wreak havoc on the beachfront including flipping vehicles just before penetrating the calm eye.
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Hurricane #Oscar just made landfall near Baracoa, Cuba. I intercepted Category 4 Hurricane Matthew in 2016 in #Baracoa and documented the intense aftermath caused by strong winds and storm surge. The calm eye stalled on top of us and we measured a low barometric pressure of 962mb.
Complete destruction in Baracoa, Cuba from a combination of extreme wind and storm surge. Sad situation here. #HurricaneMatthew
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Tonight we had a good view of #Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS looking west over the bayside of Key Largo, Florida. The “anti-tail” was not visible to the naked eye but is visible in some of the long exposure photos shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max. #CometC2023A3
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@JimWindweather First photo I shot was at 8:50pm ET and I continued to shoot until 10:50pm ET when I couldn’t the lights anymore and stopped
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Wow, Wow, Wow !!!! Purple northern lights peaking through the clouds in Key Largo, Florida. Big geomagnetic solar storm in progress right now. Get outside and look up and north #northernlights
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@AaronRigsbyOSC Image if this was 24 hours ago and seeing the northern lights inside the calm eye !!!
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Get outside everyone, even Florida !! A strong northern lights event is happening right now. Find somewhere that is dark and look to your north. #northernlights
#aurora SAR arc visible with iphone16 long exposure in Punta Gorda Florida! @MikeTheiss @ReedTimmerUSA
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I’m going through all the data now and the lowest barometric pressure we measured during the eye was 958mb (sea level pressure) in Sarasota, Florida.
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The highest wind gust measured with the H.E.R.V. during Hurricane Milton was 114mph on the John Ringling Causeway in Sarasota, Florida. The calibrated wind sensor was located at an estimated elevation of 75 feet.
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