Graduating from USF with a Marketing degree in 1996, Mike took an interest to the internet and website design. Being a weather fan his entire life and living through Florida's active 2004 season, Mike created a weather website to make tracking the tropics easy. Joining Facebook in 2009, his audience has expanded globally now reaching over a million followers with his website becoming the 'one stop
shop for tropics'. Mike's Weather Page has been accredited by NOAA, the NWS, FEMA, the Hurricane Hunters, local meteorologists, the Weather Channel, Government officials, and even his own hometown Pinellas county EOC. Mike just recently won the 2021 Governor's Hurricane Conference Tropical Meteorology award. Mike is not a meteorologist. He frequently reminds people of this and refers the NWS/NHC for official information and forecasts.