You’ve probably heard a lot about the severe drought in California on the news over the past few years. And if you’re like most people who don’t live there, you probably just shrugged it off. It wasn’t a direct threat to your daily life. The seriousness of the drought didn’t […]
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Well, we’ve got another classic and textbook bomb cyclone that got its crosshairs firmly trained on southern New England. It’s expected to arrive sometime late Friday or early Saturday. The low will soon form off the coast of the Carolina. As it heads north, it will undergo bombogenesis as it […]
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There can be a fine line between weather and landscape photography and videos. And it’s a line that I’ve both toed and crossed many times. When I first started storm chasing, the goal was simple: capture some of Mother Nature’s most powerful, yet beautiful creations. Interestingly, when I shifted from […]
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Weather apps are one of the most powerful tools to use in your landscape photography and travel videos. To demonstrate, let’s go back to my storm chasing days in Oklahoma. You get up in the morning and the day looks ripe for tornadoes. It’s a rare high risk day – […]
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On 27 October, 2021, a monster bomb cyclone hit southeast Massachusetts. The storm left an incredible path of downed trees and snapped power poles in its wake. Wind gusts on Cape Cod and the Islands very likely exceeded 100 mph. Provincetown recorded a peak gust of 97 mph before the […]
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As a former storm chaser, weather and meteorology have greatly influenced my career, values, and philosophy. Nowhere is that more true than in my photography. Even though I was only a hobbyist photographer at the time, storm chasing was clearly the turning moment when I realized my photography skills were […]
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As many of you know, chasing tornadoes and severe storms during my tenure as a meteorology student at the University of Oklahoma heavily influenced both my photography style and my quest for adventure. As a former storm chaser, I believe that there is never a bad time for landscape photography. […]
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Less than a week after Hurricane Henri hit southern New England, we now have Hurricane Ida training its crosshairs at the Gulf Coast of the United States. This is the time of the year that the Gulf of Mexico becomes very conducive to strong hurricanes. If you’re on the Gulf […]
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Hurricane Henri is at the doorstep and closing in on its New England target. Its effects are already being felt across all of southern New England. Unfortunately, if you haven’t begun storm prep yet, it’s too late. Conditions will continue to deteriorate across the region throughout this morning and into […]
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After a fickle 48 hours of massive track shifts across southern New England, models are finally converging on a solution as Henri trains its crosshairs square on the south coast. The westward march of Henri’s track has stopped, and this morning’s model runs have actually brought the track back to […]
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Almost 30 years to the day after Hurricane Bob made landfall in Rhode Island, Hurricane Henri is set to be the first storm in a long time to make landfall in New England as a hurricane. If you live anywhere in New England, particularly on the south coast, you need […]
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The Southern Great Plains are well-known for their wild, unstable, and sometimes violent weather. Aptly known as Tornado Alley, the region sees more tornadoes and severe weather than anywhere else in the world. Its proximity to both the frigid air of the Rocky Mountains and the warm, tropical waters of […]
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