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Monday, April 9, 2007 - 4:43PM

Cold in Raleigh, chase logs through 1993 finished

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.

The stubborn artic air entrenched across the northern half of the country is shortening the window of opportunity to get to work on the car this week. A stiff west wind and temps in the low to mid 50s do not make for pleasant outdoor conditions. Definitely not the norm for Raleigh this time of year. Tomorrow should make it past the 60 degree mark, if the clouds can clear out and let the sun get to work on this cold air mass.

In the meantime, I've made good use of the time indoors today. I finished compiling the main chase log index for the site, with yearly chase log indicies all the way back to 1993 (when I started). That's 15 years of storm chasing logs and images, finally together in one consistent format. This is an aspect of the site that I wanted to have finished before I launched the new redesign, but I didn't want it to hold back the progress as I wasn't sure when I'd get around to it.

It's getting about time to make another update on the 2007 Storm Chasing Expedition, since our semi-standby period start date of April 20 is now in the window of long-range models.