At least that’s what I feel like my nickname should be after the last two days of chasing. Today I even waited until a complex of cells looked decent on radar and close enough to go after:The convective complex sprawled from Louisa county into western…
This particular CG (cloud-to-ground) made me jump during yesterday’s storm intercept! All the more reason I stay in the car when lightning is near.
Even tho’ the SPC Slight Risk area barely grazed Charlottesville I decided to give chase to a nice-looking cell that moved southeasterly from the home of UVa. Radar indicated some rotation on the southeastern edge of the storm so I strove mightily to …
The Storm Prediction Center convective forecast today shows another Moderate Risk for areas out west that we chased during the May Virginia Tech storm chase trip. Over the past week or so the storm chasing has heated up – pun intended – out west,…
There have been at least a couple of decent storms I would have chased this week, but they’ve all been trumped by the waiting for and subsequent celebration of the birth of our second grandson. Some – albeit very few – things take precedenc…
I have been remiss at posting a chase account from Saturday but herein is a summary. After perusing models and radar I motored toward Culpeper with the goal of being there by 2:00 pm to get set up ahead of the storms. This turned out …
Yesterday’s chase potential was significantly reduced once a backdoor front slid into the eastern half of Virginia during the early afternoon. Temperatures and instability both fell and shoved the convective potential to the Blue Ridge and points…
The MCS that swept through West Virginia and Kentucky yesterday also threw out a thick overcast in our direction that suppressed any potential convection, so yet another possible June storm chase was quashed. Normally June is a very productive ch…
The second group of the 2011 Hokie Stormchase is heading back to Blacksburg as I write this, due in sometime today. I was not along for this trip but have been following their efforts to catch storms as part of a VT field course. Unfortunat…
This is what a lone storm chaser talks to himself about while hail is falling down around his vehicle.
