Busy stretch looks to shape up heading into this coming weekend, and it may extend well into next week.  Saturday through Monday look like high-likelihood chase days, with Thursday, Friday, and Tuesday also presenting some opportunity.  Still working out the details and logistics on what days will be my focus, and when I would depart to set up for them, so plenty left to uncover as the days go on.  Depending on where you get your weather information, this could be the ‘tornado outbreak of the year’?  Yeah, I don’t speculate on the high-side potential of these events.  As we’ve…

Thanks to Ed for taking the wheel early this grey Saturday morning… we’ve wrapped up a busy three days of chasing and have just left Peoria, Illinois to begin our long haul back home to Colorado.  It was a pretty packed slate of storms for us, although nothing terribly big, despite some high-ceiling setups.  I’ll have those inked out in the coming days, so be sure to check out the chase logs for those.  While we did see a couple birdfart tornadoes on Thursday in Iowa, I think Friday was actually my favorite of the three chase days as the…

As my cute, new little widget over there on the right shows, I’ve got several chase days lined up starting tomorrow.  Spent most of the afternoon yesterday getting the ride ready to rock.  She’s been dormant since returning from Illinois, so almost two weeks.  Actually managed to keep the driving limited to a single full tank of gas during that stretch, nice cause the 87 octane here is the mid-grade, so it’s $4+ right now here in northern Colorado without fuel points chipping away at some of that.  Fortunately the 87 octane becomes regular unleaded across the border, so that’ll…

Remember this?  Nah, probably not… this was a feature in my older sites where I would change the icon site-wide to reflect my chase potential, which was often updated on a per-day basis… well, if you look over to the right side of the screen, you notice there’s a 10-Day chase outlook.  Inspired by the old one-icon look, I created a much more modern version that shows my next 10 days chasing potential.  I’ve been stewing over such an idea for a while, but didn’t want to simply write a code to switch an icon, and this was the version…

YAY!  Success!  Not sure what the turn-around time would’ve been for a straight-up repair, but my work-around to just return the original purchase back to B&H paid off; certainly faster than the alternate, which would’ve seen me send the camera back on MONDAY, and likely still would be in transit back to Nikon, so the fact that I have the new body in hand today (Thursday), and it is NOT part of the recall, means that I absolutely made the right call.  I feel a bit bad, cause most photogs would agree, B&H is one of the best places to…

Welp, the YouTube launch happens on Friday!  At 6:30pm, the first NEW video of the NEW rebrand premieres!  It’ll be the first time ever online I have detailed out my first chase and first tornado all the way back in 1997.  It was the chase/tornado that started this whole thing I’ve been doing for the last 30 seasons.  I poured a lot of time and ‘research’ into this; and by research, I mean digging through old tubs and boxes to find everything I still had in existence from that era.  That includes an old high school “time capsule” video I…