To be honest, the title isn’t totally true. There were storms in Texas today…just not where we could (or were willing to) get to them. This morning we left Midland and moved down to Ft. Stockton on I-10 in extreme western Texas in hopes of – once …

Sitting here in the hotel room in Midland TX I’ve been vacillating between two undesirable choices:(1) Head south to the Ft.Stockton area and chase expected late afternoon / evening convection and then face a five hour drive north to Lubbock to set us …

We finally reached clear blue skies and warm temperatures as we continued west on I-20 into the distinctive High Plains of west Texas. The temperature here today in Midland TX was over 90 degrees, a far cry from the overcast 60’s we left behind in Wea…

Enjoy!

It’s good to see that the sun is finally shining today in Virginia. (I can’t say the same here in Texas as a late season cold front has socked in most of the state under a low cloud deck.) It looks like some nice spring weather will make an appearance…

With the front having pushed much further south into Texas than expected the prospects for chasing today in west Texas are slim. If we realllllly wanted to we could probably chase again in northeastern Texas under the low overcast, but then again, no …

Well, neither one of us wanted to chase northeastern TX today but that’s where the only activity was. The MCS that formed over southeastern OK and extreme western AR extended a line of storms along the Red River that contained both heavy rainers and h…

Currently speeding east on I-30 in NE Texas trying to get into position on what looks like a developing MCS. We are under a severe TS watch, so things could get exciting shortly. After we chase this for a while we’ll drop south to get on the warm sid…

Note the whitish lowering in the center of this picture; this roughly corresponds to an area of rotation on the southern storm of the two we were engaged on. This convinced us to head further south and wind up where the coyotes howl…This feature had…

I may or may not get pix posted here as I seem to be having problems uploading them. Anyway, yesterday we intercepted a storm building along the front just west of Ardmore. Initially the storm moved northeast along the front, so we traveled north and…