Nearly 70 mph while parked in Fort Walton Beach during the hurricane. Our Calypso ultrasonic wind instrument recorded that peak gust during Hurricane Isaias, while an Extreme Wind Warning and Flash Flood Emergency were in effect. Also notable: the parking lot was flash flooding faster than anything I'd ever seen. We’re still reviewing the full dataset our team collected, but this is an early look at the observations we brought home. We’re building vehicle-mounted instruments using these ultrasonic anemometers for the 2027 season. They’ll help our field team collect wind measurements to support Recon Weather’s atmospheric research. A big thank-you to Kaymont for helping us obtain these instruments and supporting the work. They are the supplier of weather balloons to the United States Government and are huge supporters of the crowd-funded research mission that I'm working with. I think it's really cool to have the support of industry leaders like this. @reconwx

From a spool of filament to a weather instrument using our @BambulabGlobal 3D printers. We’re building our own equipment for the 2027 field season. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes look at the workshop and one of our vehicle-mounted Isopods, which records atmospheric pressure 20 times per second. The goal is to collect detailed observations around storms and better understand what’s happening. There’s a lot of printing, soldering, and testing between an idea and something ready for the field. We've entered the production phase, so it'll be almost constant device building from now until March 1st. If you like supporting independent research projects like ours, be sure to follow and share. @stsweathereye

⚠️ SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING near Kimball, Nebraska! Here’s a look.@RadarOmega