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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Nice lighting show in the eye of #HurricaneLee this morning

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

One more pic looking up in the eye of #HurricaneLee this evening as we turned outbound on the final pass. Dunno what the height of the top was but it was up there.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

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4 years

Pass from eye wall to eye wall in #HurricaneEpsilon ... low res and sped up 2x due to limitations of Twitter. HD version at normal speed to follow momentarily on YouTube.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Stars above the eye of Cat 5 #HurricaneLee at 0100 eastern 8 Sep. Just a little bit of moon glow behind the rim.

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4 years

Today was the first time I had seen wake vortices behind the C-130 to this degree... it was at 5k feet over the Pacific preparing for a buoy drop. #aviation #aviationphotography

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Lee… it’s a hurricane but it sure wasn’t much to look at today. Raggedy eye like it’s suffering an extended hangover from the raging rapid intensification bender it went on a couple nights ago.

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4 years

Best eye of the 2020 season #HurricaneEpsilon

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

There are a lot of comments from people who see my pics and videos and express how much they would like to go fly with the hurricane hunters. And I’m not sure they really appreciate what that means. We don’t take passengers apart from the occasional media but I thought it might

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Straight across the eye of Hurricane #Fiona

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@FlynonymousWX

4 years

Inside the eye of Cat 5 #HurricaneIota today... some interesting cloud features up high. Not the cleanest eye but overall pretty solid storm.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

A picture thread from #hurricanelee last night…. Taking pics with no moon and only lightning randomly providing illumination is tough. The stars are usually a bit squiggly because of turbulence and aircraft movement but I got a few that were good. Camera I am using is

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

3 years

Turn in the eye of #HurricaneSam

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

4 years

With no advance warning from NHC #HurricanePi has formed in the northern Gulf region. Eye is well defined w/ deep confection observed. A crew of #hurricanehunters will investigate later Thanksgiving day. Pi à la Mode is expected to bring cooler temps to the core this afternoon

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Different views on the eye of Hurricane #Fiona at 1200Z today

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

3 years

First pass through #HurricaneSam today, it was a good looking eye. If you like this video also follow @53rdWRS for pics & vid from other crews. We would like to See 130k followers this year. If you are media and wanna use it contact @403rdWing at 403wg.pa2 @us .af.mil

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

TS Franklin was a wild ride last night with a lot of convective activity on the southeast side. Constant lightning and what sounded like a million tiny monkeys with ball peen hammers beating on the plane. At the end the blue/purple glow when not completely blasted out from

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

5 months

EA-6B in Bagram 2007

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Looking up at the stars above the eye wall of Hurricane #Fiona as we turn outbound after a fix

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Tonight’s flight into Tropical Storm #Ian brought to you by TEAL71

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Eye of #hurricane #franklin

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Time lapse of pass through the inner bands and eye of #Fiona earlier today. The shaking of radar inset is indicator of turbulence…

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Decent looking cloud over Miami this afternoon

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Guessing some people are interested to see #HurricaneLee this afternoon. Full vid of eye crossing to follow

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

28 days

Not my footage… from one of the guys on the first flight into Beryl today. Obviously need to do some remedial training on shooting horizontally vs vertically. But still cool to see.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

After completing the hurricane reconnaissance is when the real fun begins…. The flight back! In the case of last nights flight back from Lee it was ~4.5 hours. Lots more screechy talking on HF to pick up an IFR clearance with New York. No real way to church it up, it’s just a

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

The cloud layers as we entered #HurricaneLee last night made for an interesting #sunset 1/4

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

6 months

What’s it like flying over an #atmospheric river? Looking out the window it can be pretty uneventful flying up above all the clouds and precipitation. Inside the plane we are a little busy dropping sondes and looking at the data to send back. Here is a time lapse from a few

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Flying into #Franklin and found a #Hurricane this morning

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

3 years

The Orion constellation is visible above the eye wall of #HurricaneSam early this morning. Green on left is reflection from cockpit instruments.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

5 months

The problem with being an unprofessional photographer is that you end up with a lot of pics that are only slightly organized… I went hunting for a particular pic from sometime around ‘07 to ‘09 time frame and never found it. But I did run across a bunch of others and decided to

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

On the second pass through #HurricaneLee the eye was weirdly almost triangular and we dropped a couple thousand feet. The winds are dropping off in this pic (only 103) but I saw 150 knots 45 seconds before this pic. More coming tomorrow morning, going to bed now.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

9 months

Curiously watching an Egyptian Air Force C-130 off the east coast of the US at an inexplicable altitude…

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

4 years

Best eye of the 2020 season #HurricaneEpsilon

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

4 years

Eyewall to eyewall in #HurricaneIota today... can’t really see the top of the eye because it’s really tall. But still a decent view, the low swirls show well. HD version to follow momentarily.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

NOAA42 taking off on a tail Doppler radar mission to #HurricaneLee this afternoon @NOAA_HurrHunter

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

TEAL75 heading out for #HurricaneLee this morning

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

4 years

Towards the top of the pic you can see a sorta swirling toilet bowl effect in the low clouds at the center of the eye of #HurricaneIota

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

3 years

A bunch of pics from #HurricaneSam today

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Last night there was a cool looking sunset for about 20 minutes as we approached the entry point to the hurricane. That was nice, a lot of times it’s just cloudy daytime and then cloudy nighttime. So as a passenger that would be something to see.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

If the plane looks like it was flown through a hurricane lately… it’s because it was

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Sun was directly behind us enroute to storm which made for some vivid rainbows

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Thunderstorm just off the coast of Miami this afternoon

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

4 years

You know that feeling when you are returning a rental car and have to keep a straight face about the way it looks?That’s sometimes the way it feels bringing a plane back from a Cat 5 right after it got a paint touch up by maintenance. They are nice about it though.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

A look around in the eye of #Fiona around noon today… the turns are slight course corrections as the weather officer uses instruments to direct the aircraft toward the precise center of circulation

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Flight into #TD9 this morning

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

On a typical mission we will spend ~6 hours in the storm environment making four passes through the eye. There are sometimes really incredible sights like when Lee was a Cat 5 last week but much of the time it’s looking at clouds on radar and flying the plane. Surprisingly

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Taxiing past @NOAA_HurrHunter Miss Piggy

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Entering the eye of #Fiona

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

A view from #TD9 this morning

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Today’s flight into #HurricaneLee brought to you by TEAL75

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

1 month

Today we dropped buoys into the “loop current” in the Gulf of Mexico to get a better picture of what’s going on with this massive swirl of warm water…. A thread

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

3 years

Was digging through some older pics and found these from Hurricane Dorian in the middle of the night 31 August. They were very long exposures (from a moving aircraft) at 1 second but the lightning gave an instant of illumination.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

The big storms with well a well defined eye are popular but they are not the norm. In many case it’s a ~30 minute flight from the entry point to the eye spent mostly looking at radar and flying the plane. Then you get to the eye and see what there is for ~5 minutes fixing the

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

About 45 minutes prior to takeoff the crew steps to the plane… in this case it’s in St Croix, a sunny tropical island, which means it was probably 110 degrees in the cockpit. Once we get the auxiliary power unit running (~130 decibels) it will power one of the A/C packs which

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

The next three hours are cruising along getting to the storm. Once out over the ocean we use HF radios to keep in in touch with oceanic ATC. Think of it like listening to a really screechy AM radio. Sometimes there are clouds you could look at but mostly it’s just a lot of

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Time lapse from entry to exit with two passes through the center of TS Fiona

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Lightning flash as we are about to go out through the eye wall of Hurricane #Fiona

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Once engines are running and we take off it starts getting feasibly comfortable in the aircraft. At this point things are usually pretty straightforward as we can talk through regular radios with ATC and it’s just normal flying. You can see St Croix from the air during the

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

9 months

#sunset over the bayou this evening

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

3 years

Historical Fred dropsonde for the remnants of Fred the Tropical Storm…

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Pretty sure this was diffusely illuminated by lightning on the other side of the eye with the moon giving some glow from behind the top of the eye wall 6/x

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

4 years

An ominous looking corner of the eye as we entered #HurricaneIota

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Looking out the right side up at the stars while in a turn to the left 4/x

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

@marminluv We aren’t allowed to throw people into the eye anymore. The National Hurricane Center said it barely did anything to placate the gods and they were having a tough time finding suitable sacrifices anyway.

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Final pic and going to get lunch… 9/9

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

The view from 22k feet just north of Miami looking west southwest at the periphery of #Idalia

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@FlynonymousWX

3 years

Return to St Croix after #HurricaneSam

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Didn’t take many pics during TS #Ian flight last night, it was very dark for the most part and lightning too irregular

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Looking out the left side as we were about to go through the eye wall exiting on the first pass 2/x

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@FlynonymousWX

5 months

The @SpaceX Dragon capsule with #Crew7 over the Mississippi gulf coast this morning. @SpacePadreIsle

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Looking up from the depths of the eye of #HurricaneLee this afternoon with a single white fluffy cloud. Over the Satcom comes a message from @NHC_Atlantic …. “It drops the sonde in the eye then it must continue to fly”

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Going through some turbulence in the eye wall with a very bright lightning flash 3/x

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@FlynonymousWX

4 years

Pic from an earlier pass through the eye of #HurricaneIota , that one band of cloud seemed persistent through every pass.

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@FlynonymousWX

1 year

@Aviation_Intel U-2 likely has the capacity for chaff/flares… simply fly over and jettison flares and let them do the work. Global Hawk could probably do the same. Most importantly I wanna see one of them credited with an air to air kill… some U-2 pilot could be legend.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

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2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Challenge The forecast from CSU says to expect 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes and 5 majors in the Atlantic basin. But what is the #wxtwitter forecast? Post your guess for the Atlantic in this thread before June 1 and end of the season I will send

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

If a plane meets a plane flying through the eye… @NOAA_HurrHunter

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@FlynonymousWX

5 months

That one time a B-1 landed in Kandahar in 2007

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

A few things spotted from the air flying from California to Mississippi today… in no order: meteor crater just west of Winslow, AZ

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

11 months

A few still pics and also some observations from #HurricaneLee this afternoon… the eye was messy but not as bad as I thought it might be going in. 1/x

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@FlynonymousWX

4 years

Short video of various bits flying through #HurricaneIota today. YouTube video in HD momentarily.

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Sea surface about 30 miles northeast of the “center” of TS Fiona this afternoon

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3 years

Texas sunset @53rdWRS

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10 months

#sunset over the Atlantic this evening

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4 years

#GreatConjunction this evening... not great but with 800mm lens the rings of Saturn were at least visible.

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@FlynonymousWX

3 years

Poked Sam in the eye for @splillo

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@FlynonymousWX

3 years

Join the Hurricane Hunters they said… you will to fly through tropical weather and stay on warm sunny islands and sit on the beach with fruity drinks with little umbrellas… 22 degrees and wind 11 mph right now

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

3 years

The moon was visible above the eye wall during the final pass by Teal73 through #HurricaneSam early this morning.

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@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Entering the eye of #Fiona with moderately heavy precipitation, then a few turns to find center.

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4 years

TEAL71 passing opposite direction to #HurricaneIota as we were on our way home

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@FlynonymousWX

3 years

Our friends at @NOAA_HurrHunter about to join us in the eye of #Ida . They are the diamond -20 just to the left, 15 miles away and 2k feet below us. We use a variety of equipment and procedures to deconflict when multiple aircraft storm simultaneously. #HurricaneIda

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Moon is still not above the rim of the eye but is causing it to glow a bit 5/x

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

GFS run I just looked at on @TropicalTidbits has Lee at 972mb at 0000z Friday and 964mb at 0600z… coincidentally it looks like I will be flying it with fix times 2330z Thursday/0530z Friday. Post your guesses tonight of what the actual mb values for the first and last fix of

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

3 years

Time lapse of the radar while going through the inner bands and eye of #HurricaneSam this morning. I had a GoPro set up looking outside but it was just too dark even with the moon. So this is what there is.

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

5 months

Mirage 2000 in Kandahar 2007

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

Things have been a little hectic and I hadn’t remembered to follow up… it looks like Riley @135knots had the closest guesses (934, 927) for millibar levels on the first flight into Hurricane Lee. If someone else had closer and I somehow missed it please post it up. I won’t be

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Tropical Cowboy of Danger

@FlynonymousWX

2 years

Flying low through bad weather at night around mountainous islands…. ❤️

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@FlynonymousWX

11 months

TEAL78 going out for landfall mission on whatever #Hilary is at this point #HurricaneHilary

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@FlynonymousWX

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@Da_VelJ It was actually tough to shoot because it was a wall of clouds going much higher than we usually see

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@FlynonymousWX

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Go to California they said… the weather is great they said… 53 degrees and raining for the @53rdWRS latest arrival to fly #AtmosphericRiver

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Someone asked about these weekday flights over the gulf… they are to ensure Florida is still there to help keep storms out of the gulf. Ok, not really…. they are local training lines to keep crew members proficient on all the skills necessary to fly storms. Like any other

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