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Dec 15, 20151 min read
New camera & sunset!
After 8 years, I've finally got a new DSLR in my hands. I'd been shooting with the same Canon XT that I bought in 2007 and figured I...
Jul 17, 20156 min read
July 16th 2015 | Monmouth/Cameron IL Tornadoes
Good news - you never have to hear me talk about a tornado drought again. At least, not for another 3 years or so. The drought finally...
Jul 14, 20154 min read
July 13 2015 | Ottawa Illinois Supercell
This one was a head scratcher. It's not just that again, my tornado drought continues - but this one ended up nothing like I expected it...
Jun 25, 20152 min read
June 25 2015 | Carlinville, IL
This one hurt. I'm not sure why so much more than the others - perhaps accumulated frustration, or pressing too hard feeling the weight...
Jun 18, 20151 min read
June 18 2015 | Gust Front
Another sub-severe day - storms blew up along a line and let their gust front blast northward toward Champaign-Urbana. I left the office...
Jun 14, 20151 min read
June 14 2015 | Transient Supercell
Storms went up along a boundary on this afternoon, an otherwise dull weather setup. My fiance` Sophie and I were sitting down watching a...
Jun 12, 20151 min read
June 12 2015 | Night Lightning
Not a lot of wordage required for this one - Storms erupted just after sunset and pushed into my backyard so I ventured out for several...
Jun 8, 20151 min read
Slow goin', the drought continues.
Another wonky spring for me in 2015 it seems. The time brackets I have set aside for storm chasing this spring have come and gone without...
Jun 8, 20151 min read
June 8 2015 | Evening Storms
A strong shortwave pushed through central Illinois this afternoon erupting supercells across northwest Illinois. I was unable to get out...
Jun 7, 20152 min read
June 7th 2015 | Shelf clouds and night-time circulations
Another day, another shelf cloud. In 2008, June 7th was my career day. In 2015 it'd be just another disappointing under-achieving chase...
May 30, 20152 min read
May 30 2015 | Outflow boundary enhanced supercells
Another marginal day, but on a Satuday in May - you chase. Overnight/morning storms had left an outflow boundary across central Illinois,...
May 15, 20151 min read
May 15 2015 | Outflow and wildflowers
Not a lot needs to be written out on this one. I left the office early on a Friday afternoon and decided to go play with some pulsing...
Apr 9, 20153 min read
April 9th | Western Illinois Tornado-less Supercells
This was supposed to be a big day - and technically, it was. A giant EF-4 tornado ripped through northern Illinois, demolishing the town...
Mar 30, 20151 min read
May 21-23 2007 | Supercells and Tornadoes from North Dakota to Texas
Went back and found an old USB memory stick that had some old weather documents on it. Dug through a bit deeper and found a handful of...
Jan 10, 20151 min read
Gungho about time lapse... again.
Every year, with the turning of the calendar to a new year I find myself with a renewed outlook on what I want to do with my approach to...
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