Saildrone captured incredible video of Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico just hours before making landfall on the Florida coast that was shared by the NOAA X account.Back in the Bay Area, Vice President of Program Delivery Robbie Dean and his team at Saildrone in Alameda are proud their drones captured the remarkable video and provided critical weather information to the National Hurricane Center.
The National Hurricane Center receives this data within minutes to help analyze and understand the storm, as well as improve their forecasts.'With Hurricane Milton, some of the highlights are it measured about 85 mph sustained winds and wind gusts up to 150 mph and wave heights above 35 feet, so pretty extreme conditions and in really harsh conditions inside of a hurricane,' said NOAA Oceanographer Greg Foltz.