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.
It's been a very active 2-week period of winter weather here in the US, and I've been very busy with covering it all. I returned from another major trip down south to cover a high-impact road ice event, this time to Alabama. A full account is here:
Back in St. Louis, we've had another round of winter events. Friday night into Saturday morning saw freezing rain with thunderstorms in the northern portions of the STL metro. I observed and captured freezing rain thunderstorms in Wentzville on Saturday morning, then a dramatic SUV crash into a streetlight on Saturday night.
More is on the way for us here on Tuesday. This may be turning out to be a long winter, but at least it's been an interesting one.
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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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