Another marginal setup overperforms in 2026.  The theme continues!  I mentioned yesterday ahead of the chase how there was potential for something, but I would ultimately scrap together whatever I was dealt.  Well, shocker; I got more than I bargined for.  Ended up stationing in Hudson, and never really got off the Front Range.  Initial storms developed in the Foothills southwest of Denver, and my initial storm intercept was a slow-moving meatball that ultimately went severe when copious, and I mean COPIOUS amounts of 1″ hail buried areas around Centennial.  I played the Metro area, which is rare given that…

On paper, today doesn’t have quite the spunk that yesterday did, but I am still going to venture out and see what I can scrap out of this.  Today’s setup seemed more focused around the I-70 corridor in eastern Colorado verses yesterday’s I–80/I-76 play.  I will probably depart here in a couple hours, heading down toward Bennett, and following things out east.  SPC keeps it at a marginal, although they’ve teased at the idea of a wind-driven slight.  Regardless, that doesn’t really change the overall setup, but worth noting the potential is there for something.  My guess, I will probably…

While I have done my fair share of whining about the overall feel of the 2026 chasing season, one of the brighter themes to this year has been the over-achieving of the lower-end, marginal days.  Yesterday was another tickmark in that tradition with another visually stunning storm that I was able to stay with for several hours.  This year is definitely gonna be the year of the shelf cloud, and yesterday’s structure didn’t disappoint.  I’ll be the first to say that once you’ve seen ten shelf clouds, you’ll see ten more, but they never fail to make for good pictures. …

Finally finished a little feature on the site… for a while, I have organized my chase logs into three categories, NO REPORT, IN PROGERSS, and FULL WRITE-UP.  The working idea when I recreated the site was to mirror a similar log book that I had in earlier editions of the site where EVER log would be added to the annual page whether or not a write-up was intended.  That way I showed a complete log book each year with all relevant stats posted to the chase logs.  That also meant not having to create specific pages for logs that were…

    A lot going on locally, including some weather with chasing potential over the next few days… all this leading into the FIRST weekend in God-Knows-How-Long that will actually be NICE to be outside for… Chasing-wise, nothing significant on the level I would LIKE to see on an August setup, hail/wind threats along with potential for flash flooding (mainly on Thursday for flooding).  Tomorrow will probably require a bit of a northerly haul, perhaps into northwest Nebraska.  Models have been throwing darts at the region for where the best severe weather setup lies, but my hunch will be closer…

Just doing some quick website maintenance, adding the four chases from last week that wrapped up an otherwise pretty lowkey July.  While I got some pretty images, none of the days really performed all that great.  Aside from the Longmont flooding on the 28th and an encounter with a brief little QLCS birdfart in northern Nebraska on the 30th, this was a series of otherwise unremarkable chasing.  Still, was nice to get a little July romp in, as July typically is my slowest month for chasing during the warm season. Not much looking forward in the nearterm; I had some…