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I am in the bullseye zone but would dearly love a shift back west if it is any consolation, purely for the sequence of events over the next few weeks, if this shift back west happens there will be many more Snow events in the coming weeks, I do feel like Steve M that the modelling is too progressive and still hopeful the cold fights back and the pattern resets.
hi Paul look forward to comparing amount again this winter, if it happens and does not turn to rain have ruler ready lol.
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Dave
I have seen many people on the Stormchases try these triggers and In my opinion believe it or not they actually work better in the Uk than in the USA.
Now the reason
In an average Supercell you are looking at about 30-40 bolts per minute if you take all the anvil zits into the equation the end result is the trigger firing off almost constantly and NOT Picking out your beautiful CG Strike as it loaded for the intercloud zap. This happened to Pat Lightning Timmer and he almost crushed the thing under his foot!
In an average Uk Storm of 1-2 bolts per minute it will pick up some nice daytime Lightning shots (If we ever get any storms that is)
Just a thought and would not like this device to mess up your daytime lightning shots.
Paul S
my take on using a lightning trigger on 2010 chase worked very well got a couple of hundred cg shots some awsome some not so good also quite a few interclouds.
yes it does take a lot of duds as it triggers on even small interclouds and even strikes out of shot even odd ones behind you if they are close, the loading of the pics to memory card can mean missing shots so
use at least a class 10 memory card good quality one as fast as you can afford to minimise download to card time, take pics as jpegs if you want to speed it up as smaller files than raw i normally shoot in raw though.
in the uk i have used it on about 10 storms and yet to get a pic with lightning on it plenty of cloudscapes though ! due to the nature of our storms its always pointing at the wrong storm, the small multicell types we get triggers on out of shot strikes and i never seem to have camera looking at the right one.
a cautionary note set camera up taking pics with trigger "strong gust of wind dust on lens clean it up - put lens cap on !!" result 70 photos of lens cap before i noticed missing a brilliant Anvil Crawler display at times overhead i was so gob-smacked by seeing the Anvil Crawlers last time i had seen any as good as those was 40 years back in Australia, so always double check what your doing and don't get mesmerized by the moment or try not to be !!!
the only other thing i would say is taking photos is not it all i know it nice to have nice photos but you miss so much when your busy taking photos and you will miss the overall view of what's happening when your squinting through the viewfinder so using the lightning trigger enables me to set my rig up stand back and watch what's going on..... use a heavy tripod or weigh it down to stop your rig blowing over as i have seen that happen a couple of times luck as it with no disasters for those it has happened too.
one from last year 2011 lightning trigger and video note i was trying out a nd8 filter on camera (to increase shutter open time to capture multistrokes) so it came out a bit dark should off photoshoped it a bit.
Pete
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had a message from Pat today he was a bit too north for tornados but did manage a lot of excellent lightning photos and knowing Pat there will be some insane photos amongst themThe early Initiation around Pine Bluff is along the Cold Front, the real action should be after dark from the lifting Warm Front further east over towards Memphis. But yes if you wanted some Pre Dark structure (If you can call it that in Arkansas) with Shelf's then further West would have been the play.
Btw these should run pretty close to where Pat is living now (Missouri Bootheel) I wonder if he has his eyes peeled this evening
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To those wondering your laptop and camera chargers are usually rated 110/240v check on the charger so all you need is an adapter for your uk plug
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Tornadic storm heading towards Miami Florida tornado signature good hook on it tonight
update went up the north/west side of Miami
just added this meso discussion
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 2263 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0739 PM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011 AREAS AFFECTED...SRN/CNTRL FL CONCERNING...TORNADO WATCH 867... VALID 190039Z - 190145Z THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR TORNADO WATCH 867 CONTINUES. WITH WW 867 SCHEDULED TO EXPIRE AT 02Z...A REPLACEMENT WW WILL BE COORDINATED AFTER 01Z. 12Z WRF-NMM AND RECENT HRRR GUIDANCE ARE RATHER CONSISTENT THAT REGENERATING TSTM CLUSTERS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SRN/CNTRL FL FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. IMPRESSIVELY LARGE LOW-LEVEL HODOGRAPHS ACROSS CNTRL/SRN FL PER 00Z RAOBS AND VWP DATA WILL REMAIN QUITE FAVORABLE FOR POTENTIAL TORNADIC CIRCULATIONS THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT WITH 0-1 KM SRH AOA 300 M2/S2. GREATEST NEAR-TERM TORNADO THREAT IS WITH A SUPERCELL IN WRN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY WITH FORECAST TRAJECTORY TOWARDS THE MIAMI METRO AREA. MODIFIED 00Z MIAMI RAOB SUGGESTS AIR MASS ACROSS SRN FL IS AT LEAST MODERATELY UNSTABLE WITH PW VALUES AROUND 2.50 IN. PROGRESSIVELY LESSER BUOYANCY WITH NRN EXTENT SHOULD LIMIT A MORE ROBUST TORNADO THREAT ROUGHLY NORTH OF A TAMPA BAY TO MELBOURNE LATITUDE. ..GRAMS.. 10/19/2011
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just been sat in garden watching the local gliders (about 1/4m to airfield) mostly cable launched today they are certainly finding some lift and climbing rapidly after release
perhaps we may get some local grown later
the sferics in channel have died away know but i still hope for later
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you may wish too keep an eye on my website ignore most the most the website its no longer working properly and i am rebuilding it at present
but my lightning page is working http://www.bicesterw...uk/StormVue.php
the wide area storm page is several detectors correlated to try and correct positions but may show less than the true amount of strikes
if storms are local my pc may be turned off so it may go down though
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There is a group of Sferics SSE of Isle of Wight looks like that they may hit south coast soon
as they have been moving in a generally north direction
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nice pics Paul, Grande Canyon on my hit list do not know when i will make it back out storm chasing but hopefully 2013 would be a hard choice between Tornadoes or Arizona
Palo Duro Canyon perhaps
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i would keep an eye on the storm forming on the northern spanish/portuguise coast via the usual sat sites
also some cloud that is over Devon and Cornwall is looking a bit active and may get more active as it moves north eastwards
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sferics showing well over france plus an interesting area starting to show in the Bay of Biscay hopefully for us later.
i will be at work on nightshift so very limited photo opportunities if anything reaches Oxford
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storm over northern france the coloured areas are convective areas defined by temperature and cloud hight
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what we should of had today france and germany seem to get more than there share
a few minutes ago
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Almost Kansas well done
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Unfortunately Craig Stormtrack is all but finished with 95% of the Posters having left the Site for a new Forum, GPSPete gave me the Link but unfortunately my kids wiped it off my Facebook account Lol
There are some great pictures floating about though from this Season
Paul
the link is http://www.chasersforum.com/forum.php
the full membership criteria for anyone in UK is going to be quite difficult to achieve even for most US chasers also i suspect this forum will die as it is still not well supported (i don't know where the 95%
have gone but after spending several months searching the web and only finding some new local 1 state/city forums (like 10 members ha) i have found nothing)
as the main part of the forecast and chase part is locked down to those that meet the full membership criteria which is the part that everyone wants and limiting it too an elite few
is never going to make it as good as Stormtrack
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not long had an email may be visible again tonight cloud and of course what will be a decaying geomagnetic storm permitting
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not lightning watching but tonight there may be a good chance of a seeing the AURORA cloud permitting as there is a major geomagnetic storm hitting earth at the moment its a class G2+ and is expected to ramp up to a class G3+
Geomagnetic Storm Effects
G2 (Moderate)
Power systems: high-latitude power systems may experience voltage alarms, long-duration storms may cause transformer damage.
Spacecraft operations: corrective actions to orientation may be required by ground control; possible changes in drag affect orbit predictions.
Other systems: HF radio propagation can fade at higher latitudes, and aurora has been seen as low as New York and Idaho (typically 55° geomagnetic lat.).
G3 (Strong)
Power systems: voltage corrections may be required, false alarms triggered on some
protection devices.
Spacecraft operations: surface charging may occur on satellite components, drag may
increase on low-Earth-orbit satellites, and corrections may be needed for orientation
problems.
Other systems: intermittent satellite navigation and low-frequency radio navigation problems may occur, HF radio may be intermittent, and aurora has been seen as low as Illinois and Oregon (typically 50° geomagnetic lat.).
onto todays non geomagnetic storms
Latest from my lightning detector
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Hiya guys, the only extra thing I'm taking is a black light torch to do some scorpian hunting
i took one with me on stormchase 2 didn't find any scorpions, but it did show up how good the hotel cleaners were
other insects including some spiders and moths seemed to fluoresce quite well
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latest on my lightning detector
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finish work at 2 home then head for MK i think then possibly head south to Dunstable Downs on to Aylesbury via chilterns depending on what i can see when i get to MK. got to get my first uk daytime lightning shot been trying for 3 years cams always been pointing at wrong part off or wrong storm even, with our normal storms not producing many lightning strikes
plenty off convective cloud visible from Oxford at the moment and the odd spot of heavy rain lets hope it really gets going today not too much rain though want to see any lightning
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Radar detecting numerous strikes N of Oxford. Any confirmation of a storm from one of our members close by?
Bicester Oxon. 10mins, ago heard 3 rumbles of thunder have had a phone call 'heavy large hail in Thame and stong gusty wind'
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Bicester Oxfordshire certainly some convective clouds had a drive to look south see some quite heavy rain shafts from some clouds nothing showing on my lightning detector, seen or heard lightning/storm wise yet
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i know its not lightning photography but it's Arizona
http://vimeo.com/groups/tm700/videos/14609937
lots of people claim it is the most photogenic state in us from what i have seen on video and photo websites i think it may be so
its also known for its good stargazing, clear skies at night so is well known in the Astrophotography world also,
one day i hope to get there myself
in May
Virtual Chase Thread 2012
in Storm Chase USA
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Pat and I slept through a storm report on my Weather Radio, Paul and Arron wondered why Pat and I had not seen the good lightning display despite Pat reputably always having his finger on the camera shutter button !