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August was another busy month of chasing, with a few good chase days among a lot of unproductive ones.
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Busy - but mostly frustrating and unproductive - storm chasing has continued throughout the month of June, precluding frequent updates to the blog.
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I embarked on my first "earthquake chase" expedition in Ridgecrest, California from July 14-22. The trip was amazing, with not only some spectacular fault surface rupture sights and photo opportunities, but my first earthquake experience: a magnitude 4.5 quake on Tuesday the 16th!
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The Mississippi River crested this week at Alton, Illinois, just below the record set in 1993.
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My third Great Plains storm chasing expedition of the season - a 12-day journey - ended on Monday the 27th, with two additional severe weather days in the Midwest to add to the long stretch of consecutive chase days.
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2019 Great Plains expedition #3 continues, and it's been a busy one! Here is a quick summary of the chase days up to this point.
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Models continue to show the prolific and long-term severe weather-favorable pattern beginning in the Great Plains this Friday and continuing for as far out as models can be reasonably trusted.
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Over the past 48 hours, multiple models have started to indicate - with consistency - a chasing-favorable pattern beginning around next weekend, and continuing long-term.
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Plains chase expedition #2 for 2019 is on the books. This trip was not a successful one tornado-wise, and was characterized by multiple equipment failures. The lightning was also not as cooperative as I had hoped, but I didn't come away completely empty-handed on high speed captures.
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It's finally time to get on the road for the first multi-day Plains tornado pattern!
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We finally have what we've been waiting for in the storm chasing world, albeit briefly: multiple days of strong upper-level winds over deep moisture in the Great Plains thanks to a western upper-level trough.
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It's time for another quick blog roundup of recent storm chases. This edition covers the last half of April 2019, with the first Midwest tornado of the year and lots of great slow-motion lightning captures.
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As next week comes into clearer focus on the GFS and Euro models, my enthusiasm for a chase trip has waned.
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If you have followed this chase blog over the years, you shouldn't be surprised at how quickly a medium to long-range outlook can change.
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As we move into the last weeks of April, classic spring tornado season in the Plains and Midwest is still nowhere in sight.
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After 9 years of defeats, my Gateway Arch nighttime lightning strike photo quest continues into 2019.
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It's time for another quick roundup of storm chases and weather events covered over the past month and a half.
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The first month of meteorological spring this year has been a quiet one.
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Chase expedition #1 to the Great Plains is on the books!
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The first system with chase potential in traditional Great Plains expedition territory will materialize in the central USA this weekend. The primary event of interest is on Sunday, when moisture returns north to set up a dryline under a modest upper jet.
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Let's take a quick look at the upcoming weather model forecasts on this Sunday evening.
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Can you believe it? We've made it through another winter: the green trees and fields, warm air, storms and open roads of spring await.
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This has been the most active winter season I've experienced in a long time: a relentless barrage of winter storms with rarely more than 3 or 4 days of quiet in between. Here is a roundup of the events so far this year.
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I've looked down other roads along the way, and I can say without a doubt that there's no better place on earth than the road that leads to heaven"
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Here's a quick roundup of winter weather events I've covered in the past month.
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The most prolific tornado event to strike central Illinois since November 17, 2013 also occurred in the traditional tornado "off season".
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The intercept of the eyewall of near-Category 5 Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Florida.
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The primary reason for the silent blog is that I have been devoting near 100% of my production time since early July to a series of upcoming Youtube videos on lightning myths, facts and science that will employ detailed 3d modeling.
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A crazy CG lightning producer over Alton today with bolts striking both the Clark Bridge and the Melvin Price locks and dam.
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