CGs east of Van Horn, TX. Not much happened on this day during daylight hours. The tour group dropped south through eastern New Mexico and… [Read More]
May 12, 2007 White Settlement, TX CB and CGs
There wasn’t much to get excited about on this day. There was decent instability, though, and we played with some semi-strong stuff west of Fort… [Read More]
May 10, 2007 Charlotte, TX Colorful CB
A short drive south after lunch in San Antonio put us in good position to watch storms develop. One, near sunset, dove south-southeast through the… [Read More]
May 8, 2007 Big Bend NP, TX
We blasted south towards the earth’s equator, all the way to the banks of the Rio Grande south of Marathon. Pretty storms and scenery were… [Read More]
May 6, 2007 Western Oklahoma
Today’s storms in western OK were not very strong and not very photogenic. The tail-end cell in extreme southwest OK died an untimely death upon… [Read More]
May 4, 2007 Osborne and Smith counties, KS
Forecast: western Kansas——somewhere. It was not easy to narrow the forecast down on this chase day. Shear and instability were excellent, but there weren’t any… [Read More]
May 3, 2007 Morgan County, CO
The only play on this day was way up in northeastern Colorado. The previous day was the start of Tour 1 out of Arlington, TX,… [Read More]
April 30, 2007 Sierra Blanca, TX
Sierra Blanca, TX, on I-10 between Van Horn and El Paso…
January 22, 2007 Thousand Oaks, CA fire
I got home from work in time to catch the end of a brushfire just south of the Ventura Freeway in Thousand Oaks. I am… [Read More]
December 20, 2006 Van Nuys AP at Dawn
Beautiful Van Nuys Airport before sun-up. The San Gabriel Mountains are on the horizon to the northeast.
December 18, 2006 Lenticulars over L.A.
Standing Lenticular Altocumulus clouds can be quite spectacular. These were photographed on a chilly and windy day in Southern California, from the hills of Calabasas… [Read More]
December 4, 2006 Colorful Flowers
Some flowers said “take my picture” when I rode by on my bike near home. I returned quickly with my camera so they would not… [Read More]
December 4, 2006 LAX at night, LAX at dawn
These were taken from the weather observation platform of the control tower at Los Angeles International Airport. These 14 obelisks on the east side of… [Read More]
November 22, 2006 LAX at dawn
Overnight and at dawn at LAX, looking east from the 16th floor platform on the control tower.
August 18-21, 2006 Monsoon Chase
Charlie B. and I spent a few days this August driving back and forth on Interstate 10 in SE AZ and SW NM. …A faint,… [Read More]