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Vintage 8mm Home Movies - Miami, Florida - Circa 1956
Severe Thunderstorm - Miami, Florida - June 6, 2009
South Florida Rainy Season Begins - May 19, 2009
Sony HDR-FX1000 - Full Daylight Test #2
Sony HDR-FX1000 - Low Light Test #4
Sony HDR-FX1000 - Full Daylight Test #1
Sony HDR-FX1000 - Low Light Test #3
Sony HDR-FX1000 - Low Light Test #2
Sony HDR-FX1000 - Low Light Test #1
Hurricane Elena (Eye) - Biloxi, Mississippi - September 2, 1985
Hurricane Ike - Florida Keys - September 8-9, 2008
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Name:
Michael
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Age:
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Joined:
April 14, 2006
Subscribers:
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About Me:
 
I'm a native South Floridian and veteran hurricane chaser. My love of hurricanes and severe weather turned into a full-fledged chasing career in the mid 1980's. Along with storm-chasing legend Jim Leonard and others, we defined the art of hurricane chasing, photography and videography.

From 1984-86, I co-authored a monthly tropical weather column for a national weather periodical 'The American Weather Observer' and was awarded an associate membership with the American Meteorological Society.

I've experienced over 40 named tropical cyclones and during the last 25 years of my chasing career, have directly intercepted over 20 hurricanes, including some of the most violent Atlantic storms on record: Elena, Gloria, Kate, Gilbert, Hugo, Andrew, Opal, Frances, Jeanne, Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Gustav, Ike and many others. I've been fortunate enough to have recorded some of the most dramatic hurricane photography and video footage available.

My photography and videography have been used in numerous texts, magazines, ads, TV programs, marketing campaigns and other media including Weatherwise, Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Weather Channel, Duracell and others.

For the last ten years, I have also maintained a website, tropmet.com, dedicated to hurricanes, severe weather, storm chasing and photography.

Aside from hurricane chasing, in my spare time I also enjoy movies (especially horror and sci-fi), music, reading, video games (love my PS3), comic books and animation.
Hometown:
Miami, Florida
Country:
United States
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vmax135 rated a video: (7 hours ago)
Hurricane Isabel hits North Carolina 18th September 2003, Jim Edds and NZ cameraman Joe Morgan joined me on the chase.... all the way from Sout...   more
 
 
vmax135 rated a video: (7 hours ago)
View from Balcony as hurricane goes on!!!
 
 
"Luckily no. Since I was able to manually adjust the tape position while dubbing master copies from each original, I recovered about 90% of the foot..."   more
 
 
"Thanks so much, Trevor!"
 
 
vmax135 commented on Sony HDR-FX1000 - Low Light Test #1 (2 days ago)
"Thanks so much. Each of the 3 CMOS sensors on the FX1000 are 1/3"."
 
Channel Comments (86)
Justice4MeNu (5 hours ago)
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ANSWER...ttt...JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY. THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. ...ttt....READ JOHN3:16
ihavealotoffunnyfavz (1 month ago)
thanks for becoming my friend and once again your storm chasing is amazing
ExploringNaturesFury (1 month ago)
Thanks Michael for subscribing! How have you been these days! I bet you wish 2010 was here maybe for better luck with the weather pattern for storms!
Stormfreak1234 (1 month ago)
hey
laurenAmbrose (2 months ago)
Bonito canal!
Besos,
Eva
xtraview1 (2 months ago)
oh my god your videos are awesome,check out AJP42109's weather videos they're awesome to
99oildrops (2 months ago)
I liked your down town Miami video. The sound of the rain and thunder was amazing!
LDCTSTORMCHASER (2 months ago)
That Hugo video is INCREDIBLE!!! I'm still in the process of uploading many more storm chasing videos over the years... Hopefully one-day I can get to your level... Thanks for subscribing!
Vadim995 (2 months ago)
Thanks for the sub!
Thank you so much!
craigmcpeckexperienc (2 months ago)
Subscribe to my channel for weather forecast, storm chase videos and my green screen videos!
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