In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field.
With March 1 approaching, the annual eager watching of the models for any sign of spring begins. All I'm looking for is some signs of some 60s surface temps making it here and lasting for more than a day or so. The GFS has been pretty consistent in denying that for West Virginia, for as far out as is realistically possible to forecast for. It does develop a central US ridge sometime early next week, however it's fairly far south and only enough to bring a brief warmup to the Plains region. Over here, we will most likely be firmly entrenched within an upper trough, keeping January-like weather (<= 40s highs, 20s lows) in our cards for at least another week. No insane Arctic cold air, which is good - but no sign of 'outdoors weather' either.
GFS surface temps for next Wednesday
A strong storm system is showing up for the weekend, which may or may not bring another round of snow for us depending on its final track.
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To my regular readers, I offer my apologies for this heavy-handed notice. Unfortunately it has become necessary, so please bear with me!
Please don't copy/upload this site's content to social media or other web sites. Those copies have been a critical problem for me, seriously harming this site and my photography/storm chasing operation by diverting traffic, viewers, engagement and income. "Credit" and "exposure" does not benefit this site or my operation, rather they threaten my ability to cover my operating expenses. Please read my full explanation for this notice here.
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