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Friday, April 6, 2007 - 5:40PM

Here it comes

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and shut down my operation.

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.

Some destabilizing sunshine today has contributed to some potent snow showers firing early this afternoon. Here is Charleston's radar image from 5:40PM EDT:

RLX NEXRAD radar image - Charleston is in the center

The weird red-orange-purple-white color scheme here is a result of the radar being in 'clear-air mode', as opposed to 'precipitation mode'. When the radar is in clear-air mode, it is more sensitive, and shows stronger-looking returns for clouds and precip. Heavier and more widespread precipitation will trigger the radar to automatically switch to precip mode, which is the classic green-yellow-orange-red color scheme for rain showers and storms. Snow tends to have a weaker radar signature than rain of similar intensity, so many times the radar will stay in clear-air mode throughout an entire snow event.

It's going to be a long night.

UPDATE: Not minutes after I finished this post, the radar switched to 'precipitation mode' due to the coverage and intensity of the precip echoes around Charleston. So, here you get a rare glimpse of the moment the radar changes over from clear-air to precip mode.