Paul

With the storm chase just days away (tour 1 build up here), I thought a good way to whet the appetite would be to share some of the amazing supercells, tornadoes and lightning that the Netweather team have witnessed in the last few years.. So here's the first batch - a random assortment to get the ball rolling..

It's that time of the year again! Tour 1 of the storm chase begins this weekend, some of the team are already out in the USA setting up (and hopefully doing a bonus chase or two) and then the first guests of the year arrive Saturday with the first proper chase day on Sunday. As usual the team will be regularly reporting back from the USA and will upload videos and photos of the chases whenever possible. You'll also be able to watch the action as it happens on the live video stream. The team on tour 1 are: Paul Sherman (tour leader) Arron Hiscox (driver and forecaster) Ian Michaelwaite (driver and technical) The guests on tour 1 are: Jo Rick (chase virgin) Ben (chase virgin) Kathryn Gavin Christine (chase virgin) Laura (chase virgin) The current outlook is looking pretty good for the first chase day with Texas and Oklahoma and Kansas potentially in the firing line based on this morning's data Good luck all - hope you have a great trip

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Yep, we can play it by ear really - if it works really well within the limited regions and the majority would rather keep them that way then we have that option, alternatively we can keep with the plan split all out to smaller regions as needed, or even split some out into smaller regions and leave some of the larger ones in place. Being flexible is definitely the way forward here as we can see how everyone finds things and respond to that.

No, as you were for the time being - can see how it goes and change if needs be.

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We have some proposed new regions for the regional discussions during the summer and autumn months - please take a look at let us know your views. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80194-regional-threads-changes-for-summer/?p=2965003

We've knocked up a quick map just to show the proposed new regions. As you'll see there is some overlap for those close to the borders of each zone, so in theory they can choose whichever one they feel is most relevant. As said before - this smaller regions can and will be introduced as and when any weather events are likely/ongoing and will also be bought online once the busier winter season starts up. 1. Scotland, the far North of England 2. EIRE and Northern Ireland 3. Rest of Northern England (to include Lincs and Yorks) 4. Wales, The Midlands, Southwest England 5. Southeast England, Central Southern England & East Anglia Sorry to those in Shetland (Scotland region), the Scilly Islands / Channel Islands (SW region) - we didn't forget you, it's just you didn't fit on the template map we used as the background! If the general consensus is that this is ok then we'll make the change later on this week. We'll also keep monitoring things, so if the setup isn't quite working then we can tweak things again.

You're right, it is another quiet one - tricky to fold it into other regions though really as then you're talking very big areas geographically. I think we'll probably just have to see how it goes and take it from there.

Ok, so hopefully this is a workable suggestion that we can put in place if the majority are happy.. 1. Scotland, the far North of England 2. EIRE and Northern Ireland 3. Rest of Northern England (to include Lincs and Yorks) 4. Wales, The Midlands, Southwest England 5. Southeast England, Central Southern England & East Anglia They could in theory become 'permanent' larger regions which would be split out into smaller regions as needed - ie during severe weather events and during the generally busier times such as winter. Hopefully this then offers the best of both worlds for people - a laid back, mini community for day-to-day weathery chat and the like, lots of local info and more people to talk to for the quieter regions currently.

Yeh, that does sound like a better idea than mine.

How about something like: Scotland, the far North of England. Rest of Northern England (to include Lincs and Yorks) Wales and The Midlands Southern England + East Anglia Ireland Obviously larger regions across the board, so less relevance in some discussions but an opportunity to mix it up a bit more, particularly in merging some of the quieter regions in with others + we can still open the smaller regions as and when weather events are due + once we're back into winter.

Ok, so getting back to options here. Clearly removing the regionals entirely is off the table now.. So it's a case of whether we can merge regions to help out the quieter regions etc, and how best to do that if so. Sound fair?

This isnt the right topic for that tbh - but for what it's worth we pm people whenver possible when posts are removed to explain the reason why. We did try leaving notes on them a while back, but they often lead to responses within the thread which kind of defeats the purpose if we're trying to keep things on topic.

I am getting sick of certain people attempting to dictate what the team should or shouldn't be doing on the forums - there is a core of people who in recent times seem to think they are at liberty to contact the team with pretty sharp and ott messages demanding action against against people they apparently don't like or equally taking some sort offence when similar action is taken on their posts or their friends posts. It's ridiclous - the team are volunteers, we all do our best for the community, strive to be fair, reasonable and polite and don't deserve to be talked to like some sort of online servant, ignored or frankly disrespected like this. This is a thread about the future of the regional discussions, nothing more or less - if a team member decided to edit or remove a post because someone is straying way off topic and likely to derail the thread than that is entirely their call. If you're unsure about anything the team does, feel free to pm them, me or any other member of the team and ask for an explanation as to why they have taken the action they have (although in the case of edited posts a message is usually left anyway, and 99% of the time a pm would be sent otherwise or if the post is removed anyway). What is not acceptable is to then mouth off in the thread, throw silly accusations, conspiracy theories and the like and generally derail things any further. I'm pretty astounded by the way some people are carrying on, and have been carrying on in places like the SE thread of late and it has to stop, and stop now.

Which is pretty much what I said below the post you've quoted and responded to, and has been said several times. Can we maybe move on and actually discuss what people think of the suggestion to widen the regions etc?

One thing to add at the moment and that's to say this isn't about 'business decisions' so to speak - it's about what is best for the community, and has always been about that. VM, I know you like to see things as black and white, but in the real world they're not. You can't please everyone all of the time and so therefore to make any changes, updates or additions it's a fact of life that someone is likely to be disappointed. If we waited to get 100% satisfaction when doing anything on the community we'd never even have upgraded from the software, layout and features we used on day 1 some 11 years ago, as many people loved that and didn't like the change - until the majority got used to it. I'm all for listening, hence the discussion we're having now and certainly don't have a like it or lump it attitude but at the same time I'm realistic enough to know that no matter what we ever do or don't do, some will be pleased, some will be not that bothered and some will be disappointed regardless.