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Posts posted by IanM
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Cheers Tom
It's always a pleasure to share a tour with you, and your updates have been great this year!
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It's more like October than late May with some very wet and windy weather on the way to end spring and start summer, at least there are signs of it warming up later next week though.
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I have to apologise In my haste to post video last night I posted them in the wrong place. I am sure one of the administrators will move them for me.
They are all in this thread now Tom :-)
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Same camera, but I tweaked the laptop a bit to cope with a bit better frame rate, and the internet has behaved itself a lot better this year. I think the cunning plan of using our own kit rather than renting might have helped.
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Great work chaps. I hope deep fried testicles were consumed too?
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Can't believe that I fell asleep 5 minutes before the first touchdown, awesome chase day!
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Cheers Tom, great stuff!
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I feel like I'm still driving - around 900 miles yesterday for a last chance chase of the season for Tour 1 guests, and me...
What a day, totally different ending to the one we expected - a 2 hour flash flood delay before a 5 hour drive back to Dallas, but well worth it. A cell that grew and intensified quite quickly in the high temperatures in oily West Texas. It then cycled from classic to HP and back again a few times, switching between outflow dominant and back re intensifying as we stopped and started for pictures.
Knackering, adrenaline fuelled and even had a brief touch down that meant we had to drive over downed power lines (which were safe at the time) before the dustbowl we'd been watching from turned into a fast flowing river joining lakes either side of the road, with large hail rattling the underside of the car as it washed past. I'm still cursing that I didn't grab some photo's of the floods, but the ohers were filming away, and you've seen Tom's quick upload form last night too.
Sad to be leaving the USA, but happy that we gave the Tour 1 newbies plenty of memories and reasons to think about coming back to play again :-)
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We are parked up and watching developments to the south. I'll kick the stream back to life in a sec
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A gloomy view from the motel window in Salinas right now, as morning storms clear through. The news and weather channels here are all on high warning levels with advice about finding shelters, being prepared and perhaps the worst anyone wants to hear - long track night time tornadoes possible.
As Nick said on the original post, there is potential for very damaging storms today if everything comes together, and we're in the middle of the risk area right now so will be heading out later this morning and hoping for some central plains chasing away from all the towns and cities.
I'll be keeping an eye on the stream once we're up and running so you can follow along, but if it gets hectic and the stream does go down, I might not be able to fix it instantly, so please bear with us.
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Currently sat in Snyder, TX. Live streaming a lawn mower shop while waiting for things to get going. There's an MD issued and we're pretty much in the middle so its just a case of wait and watch now.
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A bit of hail coming towards us now.
Edit: that died on the next radar scan...
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All in all it's been a up and down start to the tour, right place, wrong time sums it up for some of the storms. But that's what happens when you have to make decisions to be in the right place for the next days risk.
That said, we've seen plenty, a tornado or two (depending if you count a satellite as one for the list...), spectacular lightning, a typical Kansas dusk supercell firing off like a 70's disco and strikes close enough to make you flinch.
I'll have to drag through video to see if I got anything of last nights tornado (Day 1), and the cold front that followed us back towards Colby was pretty cool, along with the funnel clouds that appeared out of a rapidly reorganising storm that we'd just about given up on (I'll need to grab a copy of a video from a guest for that one, as I was driving)
So 6 states, over 1000 miles, happy guests and some spectacular viewing, roll on the next storms.
Chase day 25 - NE/SD/ND
in Storm Chase USA
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Very nice Andy, thanks for sharing