Since my last couple posts were very technical, let’s have a little more fun today. The summer monsoon in Arizona has given us a little bit of everything this year, including some incredible dust storms and lightning displays. We’ve all seen the jaw dropping lightning photos that get highlighted on […]
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Have you ever been watching a thunderstorm and witnessed someone counting the seconds between the lightning and the thunder (or even counted yourself)? You probably know that you can determine how far away the lightning strike was from the length of time between the lightning flash and the thunder clap. […]
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AMBER, OK — Another round of severe weather brought quite the grand finale to May here in Central Oklahoma. With a Moderate Risk up, all of Oklahoma west of Interstate 35 was fair game for a target area. Just after 3 PM, storms began to explode on the dryline in […]
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NORMAN, OK — Two straight days of taking a gamble and targeting areas close to home left me with the two extremes as far as results go: one day put me up close and personal with a fairly serious tornado less than a mile from my house, and the other […]
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WOODWARD, OK — What will go down as one of the most memorable chases of the year netted me my first tornado of the new season and pounded me with hail well over 4 inches (softball size). My target for a few days had been the area surrounding Woodward. The […]
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Photographing lightning can be challenging, but is very rewarding. You can try to aim the camera at the sky and push the button when you see the lightning flash, but in 4 years of photographing lightning, I have been successful at that method a grand total of once. The human […]
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A classic 5:00 Tampa Bay Slam hit the Bay Area this afternoon. Over Hillsborough County, the east coast sea breeze collided with the west coast sea breeze, triggering explosive thunderstorms that tracked west across the bay towards Pinellas County. I was a bit late going out […]
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — One of the best storms of the summer so far tore through the St. Pete area on Monday evening. To put the icing on the cake, too, the storm came to me, so I didn’t have to leave the house to intercept it! The storm surely […]
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Part 1 ZEPHYRHILLS, FL — I was originally targeting an area to the south on Thursday, down in the heart of Sarasota County. That area saw some great storms in the morning, but by afternoon the storms were ripe for pickin’ along the Interstate 4 corridor in Lightning Alley. At […]
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ST. PETE BEACH, FL — The winter storm chasing season got off with an early bang at Pass-a-Grille Beach. The season started early this year, thanks to El Nino being firmly in place and blowing severe weather into west-central Florida. A massive low pressure system formed off the Texas coast […]
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MARION, MA — The afternoon of Saturday, August 2 started like any other afternoon. It was a perfect day for sailing, and the talk around the club was that the sailors would stay out late to take advantage of the beautiful conditions. Just before 4:00 PM, club management informed Chris, […]
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WOODS HOLE, MA — When I fired up Weather Underground this past Saturday, I looked at Sunday’s forecast and saw that there was an 80% chance of thunderstorms, as well as a huge batch of storms (some severe) stretching from upstate New York back into central New Jersey and Pennsylvania. […]
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