{"id":8270,"date":"2013-05-05T21:53:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T05:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=8270"},"modified":"2013-05-05T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T05:53:43","slug":"may-6-2013-chase-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2013\/05\/05\/may-6-2013-chase-update\/","title":{"rendered":"May 6, 2013  Chase update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy, all!\u00a0 I am in storm-chase mode currently as tour director for Tempest Tours.\u00a0 Tour 1 is in the books, and I just finished the write-ups and posts on Stormbruiser.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2013\/04\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the April 2013 entries.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tour 2 began out of OKC on May 1, and we chased some strong hailers from Seymour to Albany, TX.\u00a0 In Albany, at sunset, our nearby cell went nuts and blasted part of our group with 70 mph-plus winds.\u00a0 Nearby structures suffered roof damage.\u00a0 The other van managed to miss the wind on the west side of town.\u00a0 Behind the storm was a spectacular display of continuous spider lightning in the updraft region, with occasional lightning in the mammatus field above!\u00a0 Images for this day aren&#8217;t ready yet &#8212; but keep checking back.<\/p>\n<p>After May 1, cold air swept southward to the Gulf, and the Plains region is still waiting for moisture to return.\u00a0 We spent three days in Terlingua\/Big Bend NP, and on May 5 we visited Fort Davis and MacDonald Observatory.\u00a0 We expect to shift from sight-seeing mode to chasing mode in a day or two, as moisture slowly returns.\u00a0 A blocking pattern in the atmosphere is making life miserable for storm chasers.<\/p>\n<p>Stormbruiser had some virus problems this past week, but everything should be cleaned up now.\u00a0 Let me know if you detect any issues.\u00a0 My web page developer removed the galleries, but the chase accounts section is still intact.\u00a0 A return of the galleries will have to wait a while.<\/p>\n<p>I am on the dreaded Facebook now, and often times that is a better way to keep tabs on my chase exploits.\u00a0 You can be my friend!\u00a0 And while you are at it, &#8220;friend&#8221; the Tempest Tours page, too.\u00a0 Sometimes guests and staff post chase updates there and you can see what I have seen and see where I have been even before I have figured it out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy, all!\u00a0 I am in storm-chase mode currently as tour director for Tempest Tours.\u00a0 Tour 1 is in the books, and I just finished the&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2013\/05\/05\/may-6-2013-chase-update\/\">[Read&nbsp;More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-54","7":"category-updates","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8271,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions\/8271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}