We can’t seem to catch a break this spring from the #$%#$$%&($*% cold air damming wedge that keeps setting up on top of us. It has been a bit unusual this May having cold fronts stall out in our vicinity, since they are usually zipping through and…

Powerflash!Okay, I am beating a dead horse…I admit it. After some more thought I decided to investigate the 13 May power flash we videoed to see if it was realistic to assume that was from the tornado that hit Anadarko OK that night. Per the map ab…

Current radar shows a healthy convective line headed generally in our direction. If it holds together and gets close enough I may scoot out to observe, especially if there’s any lightning involved.Meanwhile I’m feeling empathetic toward both the Vorte…

Even though the chance of decent storms today was slim I gave in to the temptation to head west early this afternoon as a few updrafts hovered near the Blue Ridge. By the time I got to Culpeper these had fizzled dramatically and I was left with a deci…

This is another look at the downed powerpoles we came upon during our Texas panhandle chase. One pole had snapped off during the strong outflows from the storms we were watching, thus dragging down a series of successive poles and shutting down power …

Due to some flipflops in the models the forecast for our weekend is much better than it seemed earlier this week. The system in the Gulf of Mexico is being shoved westward and will now enter the U.S. mainland via the Mississippi River valley instead …

Tried to post this directly but wasn’t successful, so here’s the link for a shaky hand held video of a rotating Kansas wallcloud taken during our 15 May chase. It’s sped up 4x. (This is why I use a monopod mount for the videocamera most of the time.)…

A few vidcaps from just south of the approaching squall line from a no-name dirt road in extreme northern Oklahoma. I labeled the last three CG explosions because that’s what they look like in the video.

I’m finally back from stormchasing out west and can focus a bit more on local weather, altho’ things are rather quiet this week. The biggest news is the cool weather that started this week off. A relatively cool and dry airmass has spread over the Ea…

Now back home it seems like this chase was a long time ago; in fact it was just yesterday! We did start out in Pratt watching updrafts build along the approaching cold front, and then began leap-frogging east and south to stay ahead of the growing sto…