After yesterday’s frustration I headed out earlier today to get ahead of the convection that was to fire ahead of a very strong July cold front. I stopped by the local TV station and picked up their summer intern who helped with navigation and social m…
Given the Slight Risk issued for most of Virginia by the Storm Prediction Center I had decent hopes for a productive chase today. The main fly in the ointment was the fact that I couldn’t leave home until almost 3:30 for family reasons. And, of course,…
Given the very strong cold front headed our way this week the next couple of days should feature some decent stormchasing. However when a storm went up just to the east of us this afternoon I couldn’t resist heading to a nearby park to look. This is th…
An approaching cold front and upper trough set the stage for chasing today with decent instability and shear. Convection began in earnest around the noon hour so I rolled out the driveway during the early afternoon, heading south toward Rocky Mount. Ne…
The good news for Tuesday July 8th was that all indications were that storms would arrive in southwestern VA late, after the dinner hour. The “good” part was it meant that I wouldn’t have to go out earlier amid the late afternoon sauna conditions. (Plu…
With a cold front pressing in – slowly – from the west and Hurricane Arthur pushing up from the south southern Virginia was in a convective squeeze play today. CAPE values were extreme (>3000) and there was little or no cap so storms went up very ea…
By all accounts and model predictions today was the best day for chasing in southern Virginia and I managed to bust spectacularly. After picking up my son in Gretna we motored to the Smith Mountain Lake area to await convective activity. While parked a…
Today was one of those very low probability days for storms, and of course convection fired over the Roanoke valley this afternoon. I basically ignored that action as we had other stuff going on today. But when another short line segment north of the a…
Another example of a typical Virginia chase of a non-severe storm. It contains three separate clips with the first and last sped up 4x and the middle clip real time.Nothing fancy.
And so it is…even if today was another chase day. With a lee trough setting up ahead of an approaching cold front, plenty of CAPE, little shear, and no cap today’s convection fired early. I left home at 12:30 to travel toward Bedford in order to get …
