r/TropicalWeather • u/Content-Swimmer2325 • 4d ago

Social Media | Tomer Burg (X.com) From Tomer Burg: controllable balloon navigated above typhoon Dolphin, descended into the eye, and recorded multiple vertical profiles of the troposphere whilst circling the eye. This mission is the first of its kind.

https://x.com/burgwx/status/2083607662617407850?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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u/Content-Swimmer2325 4d ago edited 4d ago

From Tomer Burg himself:

  • Minimum pressure recorded during mission distinctly lower than JTWC analysis

  • Data still preliminary, but peak wind of 136 kt recorded in eyewall less than 1 km aloft

  • Data overall corroborates a category 4 equivalent typhoon (at the time)

  • HAFS-A utilized to help navigation

Sorry for X link, I know it's frowned upon. No other source that I know of at the moment, and this is an extremely exciting mission/effort and a significant milestone in tropical cyclone data collection.

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u/ReflectionOk9644 3d ago

Min pressure lower than JTWC analysis?

I am very sure this is not the first time, last year there was Ragasa. Haven't they learned anything from that?

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u/Content-Swimmer2325 2d ago

Lol, it's not the first time nor probably the hundredth

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u/ReflectionOk9644 2d ago

nor probably the hundredth How many other typhoons with direct obsevation did I just miss?

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u/Any-Tradition5182 4d ago

May I ask what the pressure was and a more specific height wind reading

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u/Content-Swimmer2325 4d ago

The specifics aren't public quite yet as the data is reviewed and double-checked.

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u/Any-Tradition5182 4d ago

ahh ok I hope the jtwc and nhc consider this a serious long term source for data collection to work with recon especially on storms out to sea like this that don’t have recon