May 9) Start: Kiowa, KS/lunch: Yur Place in Hardtner/End: Burlington, CO/370 miles May 10) Start: Burlington/lunch: fast food in Limon/end: Wakeeney, KS/541 miles First, a… [Read More]
May 6, 2023 Archer and Throck storms (and gaudy rainbow)
Begin: Killeen, TX Lunch: Billy’s/Cisco End: Wichita Falls, TX/359 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One/20Z Another chase day in Texas for Tour 2, and we… [Read More]
May 5, 2023 Marble Falls, TX Supercell
Begin: Abilene, TX Lunch: MA’S Crossroads Grill/Santa Anna End: Killeen, TX/318 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One/20Z Surface plot above, 4 p.m. CDT/the red S… [Read More]
May 4, 2023 Crowell and Paducah Supercells
Begin: Woodward, OK Brunch: Pollyanna’s at Woodward End: Abilene (461 miles) Storm Reports SPC Day One 20Z Prospects today looked rather good, at least before… [Read More]
May 2 and 3, 2023 Barely Severe in Texas
Tour 2 out of OKC started out very slowly as we waited for Gulf moisture to come back north. Here are the day-to-day particulars from… [Read More]
April 26, 2023 Clyde and Goldthwaite severe. Or, sagging outflow boundary ruins tornado prospects.
Our group had a good supercell chase near Ballinger on April 22, but a cold front swept southward into far South Texas early on the… [Read More]
April 22, 2023 Ballinger to Doole, TX supercell
This post is for the impressive storm near Ballinger on the 22nd. Tour 1 out of OKC started on April 20th, with Matt P. and… [Read More]
Westlake Village Climate Data
DAILY DATA/MAX AND MIN TEMPS AND 24-HOUR PRECIP (midnight to midnight) Westlake Village/Hidden Canyon station from 1999 to 2012: Westlake Village/Northgate station from 2013 to… [Read More]
March 22, 2023 A tornado in Montebello
A potent storm swept through Southern California on Tue, March 21. On the next day, energetic cyclonic WSW flow continued over Los Angeles County above… [Read More]
January 12, 2023 LAX Visibility Markers
At Los Angeles Airport (LAX), weather observers are tasked with determining the “prevailing visibility” for each observation. As a weather observer, I figured that it… [Read More]
2022 Chase Season Summary
It is late January, 2023, and I finally finished up my chase accounts for 2022. The chase season for me was again rather mediocre. I… [Read More]
Last Chance Tornado Supplemental Info and Correspondence
Link to my chase account and video for the Last Chance, Colorado tornado This current entry was produced to share additional information and correspondence with… [Read More]
Death Valley Temperature Comparisons for Summer 2022
Daily temperature data (max and min, midnight to midnight) were meticulously compiled for the warm half of 2022 (the high-sun months of April through September)… [Read More]
November 21, 2022 Airplane Photos from LAX
It was a crystal clear day in L.A…a good day to be asked to cover an afternoon shift at my LAX airport job!
September 22, 2022 Death Valley Too Hot Again
A recent blog entry by me which compared the official Death Valley temperature-measurement instrumentation with adjacent temporary equipment (installed by Dirk Baker of Campbell Scientific)… [Read More]
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