IanM

You can get the BA app on your phone Dave and that will keep your boarding pass for you, or once you've checked in online you have the option to print your pass and carry it with you. I either take a collapsible tripod and stick it in my hold luggage bag, or there is the option to buy a budget tripod from Walmart when you arrive, they are $30-$40 for a reasonable one if I remember correctly. Clothing is usually shorts and t-shirts, but there can be cooler days, so a hoodie and jeans are good to have too, it's a good idea to keep a warm top in the car as the temperatures can be chilly in the cold winds in the outflow of a storm.

Quentin (Dorsetbred) said it as well as I could, the link for the storm chase page will go live before the tours start and we'll have streaming and mapping on there. Plus there will be daily forum updates, both from the road and once the dust settles each evening/morning depending on how late it is when we check in to a hotel for the night. We experimented with live chat on the stream last year, and may do something similar again, but we will share all the relevant links and info in plenty of time for the start of the tours.

Hi Sam Good to have you travelling with us this year! Arriving at 16:10 is fine, most direct flights from the UK come in around that time so you'll most likely meet fellow travellers at the airport on the way through. For flights home, 1530 is a cutting it a little fine, if you could book a slightly later flight it gives the team more time to get you to the airport if you are chasing a state or two away on the last chase day. We've never failed to get anyone to the airport on time, but having a little breathing space always helps, and makes for a potentially more comfortable trip back to Dallas if there is a decent risk to play with to end the tour.

All the build up ends and we hit the first MotoGp weekend of 2015 with the season opener at Losail, with the added bonus of F1 from Malaysia to make it a full weekend of motor sport. View the full blog entry here

Channel 4 broadcast a couple of UK weather documentaries, one late last year, and another early in 2015, one of them featured UK storm chasers. I'm pretty sure neither was related to this post though, normally the production companies contact us first and then we can help with info and getting people involved. The December show was called Wildest Weather, broadcast on the 14th.

It's not really a limit as such Nick, most airlines allow 23kg, plus hand luggage so it's hard to bring too much gear. Having soft luggage just makes it a bit easier to load the cars each day as we play 'bag Jenga' in the morning to get everything loaded and then the hand luggage bags/camera bags on top for easy access.

Looks the same, so no last poster names, same as in portrait mode. It's just how it scales to fit the display, I don't think it's something we can change unfortunately.

It looks like this on both devices, I can't make it look like your screenshots so will have to check with one of The techies

That's odd as I have a Nexus 7 and a Fire HDX, both are widescreen, the Fire is the same resolution as yours 1920x1200 and both of them show the same layout, there isn't a mobile version as such, just dynamic scaling, so on a tablet the statuses go below the forum listings. Otherwise it's pretty much the same look.

Thanks for the feedback, it seems like there was a bug for some iOS 7 devices that causes the problem, an updated version has been sent for approval, hopefully Apple are a bit quicker getting revised versions through than they are with new apps. iOS 8 is apparently fine. Ian

Thanks for letting us know, we'll be checking into why some people are having problems tomorrow and will update here

Finally, all you apple fans can get your hands on the iOS version of the Snow Radar, just in time for the snow forecast to arrive over the next few days! http://goo.gl/oxKz5J Please feel free to leave feedback or comments - a full version for subscribers to Extra is being developed to launch as quickly as we can too. Ian http://goo.gl/oxKz5J

A quick response for you Mapantz The modern skin is responsive, so doesn't have a mobile version, it's basically designed to load which ever style best fits the screen size it's being displayed on. We've checked on a couple of tablets and both show the standard desktop. Mine is a 7" android version. Can you let me know which tablet you are using please and what resolution it has (if you know), that might help narrow it down. A lower res screen could be behind the problem.

That's not one I can answer I'm afraid Mapantz, I'll forward it to the techies and see if they have any ideas. Ian

I don't Andy, I rely on the sky turning dark enough to not need a filter to tone it down.

There's a number on the back of the card Nick, call that, and go through a tedious automated ID check and a robot will tell you your pin. The $ rate is slowly creeping in the right direction too, $1.54 spot rate when I checked earlier, that's a lot of Walmart t shirts for me this year

I used to lug two camera bodies around all the time on tour, but after a while you realise that a wide zoom (I have a 12-24mm) covers 95% of pictures. For the longer range stuff you might be better off investing in a decent compact travel zoom camera, like the Panasonic TZ range, to save on bag space and you'll have a pretty cool all round compact camera to keep to hand wherever you are.

The parallel was scrapped due to a cascading error apparently.

A warmer than average start to Autumn has seen fashion sales hit, as nobody is ready to put away their summer clothes just yet View the full blog entry here

Heading "Into The Storm" at cinemas this week? Is it worth a watch? If you like, non stop action, great special effects and aren't looking for a documentary on chasing then it's a yes. View the full blog entry here

As 'Into The Storm' rolls into cinemas this week, why not do it for real next year and join us chasing in the USA? View the full blog entry here

Yep, we use a 'feels like' temperature on all the forecast pages.

More from today in Nick's latest blog update http://forum.netweather.tv/blog/349/entry-4785-stormchase-2014-south-dakota-tornadoes/

South Dakota finally delivered for Paul and the team on Tour 4! 'Ok so todays Aim was to try and get my 1st ever South Dakota Tornado, would not have mnded if it was a 2014 Edition Birdfart, but what happened was the 3rd amazing day in a row for the Northern High Plains with once again 2 Tornadoes on the ground at the same time. Targeted Chamberlain to Huron and watched the Cold Front to our North not really paying much attention to it, when the bottom storm started to turn right we were 20 miles from it so went straight north up Highway 15, we positioned east down some fantastic dirt roads and saw our first Tornado which was a Multi Vortex at about 630pm. After dodging some insane Cg Bolts more dirt roads were needed to get to the small town of Lane. I sat in the hook with intense rotation just to our South, what would be the big tornado of the day touched down about 1 mile to our south, this was heading straight at us so we repositioned east a half mile, the tornado then fully condensed into a cone and crossed the road a few hundreds yards back, while this was happening another rope tornado was in a field to our south showering us with leaves and bit of trees. We repositioned to catch up with the now large white cone tornado near Wassington Springs and watched a magnificant rope out stage. I apologise now to Arron as the 2 videos I am about to link could end our friendship forever.12 Pictures all in order as they happened and 2 Videos shot by Richard.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr7Ac9pAVhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzekFKNU0s And I love this one from Richard There are probably more photos and videos to come from another incredible chase day!

Paul's already hit the road to get in position for todays risk, and it's a set up that could add to the 13 tornadoes already seen in the last 2 days chasing. Will Paul break his South Dakota duck - 106 tornadoes seen, none of them in SD As he said earlier - 'Waking up in yet another 10% Tornado Risk in Sioux City, surely lightning cant strike for a 3rd time today ? Will be on it and under it chasing hard yet again later on.' The main risk area covers north east Nebraska, the south east of SD and over into north west Iowa, as shown on the SPC Tornado Outlook Good chasing to you guys, try to save some twisters for next year!