This video clip – sped up 8x – was taken 5 miles NW of Halifax VA looking eastward about 4:15 pm yesterday, Saturday 8/10/13.  This was the third wall cloud we witnessed during this chase, and the only reason we were able to get close enough to ph…

That’s the tally for today, which I thought might be a decent chase day given the instability, shear, and moisture available ahead of a cold front pressing in from the northwest.  After a mesoscale discussion (MD) was issued today’s chasing deal w…

I fixed the screen on the porch door. Again. Hopefully this will help the dog notice that the screen is back in place. There’s no implied threat. Really.

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Given the heat and humidity available today storms were inevitable, and I saw evidence of it when I checked radar at 1:45 pm while in the Charlottesville vicinity.  Noticing a nice complex near Roanoke that was moving eastward I had hopes I could …

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Really, I was going to chase a cell just east of the Blue Ridge crest that exhibited rotation on radar.  It was creeping slowly northeastward toward the Montvale / Bedford corridor so I rolled down the driveway to head in that direction…before I…

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