Storm Highway by Dan Robinson
Storm chasing, photography and the open roadClick for an important message
Storm Highway by Dan RobinsonClick for an important message
Home | Blog Index | Blog Archives | Christianity & Faith Essays | Storm Chasing Essays

                   Friday, February 6, 2009 - 6:41AM

Early taste of spring

By DAN ROBINSON
Editor/Photographer
Important Message 30 Years of Storm Chasing & Photography Dan's YouTube Video Channel Dan's Twitter feed Dan's RSS/XML feed

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.

Finally, a whole week with a normal sleep pattern! A much-needed central-eastern US ridge will create a significant, prolonged warmup for the eastern 2/3 of the US. The mountains will keep us from getting the full benefits of the southerly surface flow, but we may break 60 on Saturday and should see all of our snow cover gone over the weekend. A small trough swings through late next week, but currently models don't show it being a huge arctic monster like the ones we've been dealing with.

There are a couple of systems shown on model output (I posted the stronger one below shown coming in Wednesday night) that suggest thunderstorm chances next week, but as I mentioned, the mountains are going to block us from getting nice slugs of moisture from the Gulf. Dewpoints are shown having a hard time breaking 50°F through the week. A strong front or low can still produce storms with that, but it's less likely. Storms are more certain in the Plains in the next few days, though - where the dews should hit 60°F. Nice for them when you don't have mountains blocking your moisture return!


GFS precip for Wednesday night

"Storms are more certain in the Plains in the next few days." You on chase standby then Dan ?
- Posted by Mick from United Kingdom

Not yet...at most it looks like a wind, lightning and hail event out there. Nice, but not enough to travel for. I'm hoping I'll get some lightning close to home, there seems to be a decent chance at that.
- Posted by Dan R. from Charleston, WV

30 Years of Storm Chasing & Photography
Important Message
Dan's YouTube Video Channel
Dan's Twitter feed
Dan's RSS/XML feed

GO: Home | Storm Chase Logs | Photography | Extreme Weather Library | Stock Footage | Blog

Featured Weather Library Article:

How lightning works
Does it go up or down? A detailed description of lightning from start to finish.
More Library Articles

All content © Dan Robinson. All usage requires a paid license - please contact Dan for inquiries.

Web Site Design and Internet Marketing by CIS Internet