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Monday, November 5, 2007 - 9:00PM

November lightning in Charleston

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.

I wasn't planning on observing tonight, but these storms were making enough noise outside that I decided to go and see what they were doing. The link to the chase log is below.

Event log with video

Daylight saving time changing this late in the year is really a rude awakening - it was dark when I left, just before 6:00PM tonight.

Icy road forecast update
Tonight's new model forecasts are out (the 00z runs) and the outlook has not changed much since the last update. If anything, the models have scaled back the QPF slightly northward and raised the low temps a degree or two, edging the forecast a little more in the direction of a no-ice outlook for Charleston. However, as I mentioned before, small snowfall accumulations (the kind that makes bridges icy) can escape being indicated by model QPF output. Both models show a ribbon of warmer air coming in over central WV which would further hinder the lower elevations from dropping below the freezing mark. At this stage I'm giving Charleston a 15% chance of an icy road episode early Wednesday morning between midnight and sunrise. However, subfreezing snowfall and resulting icy bridges look like a sure thing now in Beckley, Lewisburg and all of the mountain areas above 2000 feet in elevation. Early-morning commuters in the area should be on the lookout for icy bridges - if you wake up to snow on your car, the bridges might be the same way.