Should be a quiet-ish day locally for me, some afternoon storms will likely pop off the higher terrain, but should be less intense and numerous than yesterday.  That said, barring something hyper-local, today won’t involve a lot of effort.  Tomorrow is a maybe up across the western half of Nebraska, so we’ll see how that shakes out.  Either way, it’s something I can wait til tomorrow morning to decide.  It would get me out in the field, which sets up for the one day I am watching with intent, that would be Tuesday.  Above is the hardly-means-anything graphic, but gives…

Well, despite no real ‘noteworthy’ plans to chase, Ma-Nature brought the action to me today, and in a very well timed manner.  After leaving Greeley from a Sound Bath with the wife and a quick trip to the store, storms exploded off the Palmer, firing off an outflow boundary that would be the trigger to heavy-duty severe storms up this way.  I got home, wet fooded the cats, changed my clothes, and drove straight out US-34 to slip in behind the first severe storm of my outing, a blizzard hailer that lead to all sorts of problems near Wiggins.  When…

Just realized that my last venture, August 19, was my 1,000th career log! Of those, 577 were chase logs, the other 423 were work/spotter ventures.  A crazy number of logs.  That chase also put me at #5 highest annual mileage.  I will lay it all out in a later log, but wanted to acknowledge the milestone.  1,000 career logs over 30 seasons!

Yeah, that was a mistake… unfortunately I kinda wussed out as I wasn’t feeling 100%, and as the day drew on, I lost the energy and motivation, so by 3pm, when things started to fire in the Black Hills (despite the models saying otherwise), I was already too far gone.  That storm ended up being a long-track supercell that produced 3″ hail, awesome lightning, and yes, even a damn tornado near Potter, Nebraska near I-80, which I could’ve made even leaving later when it became apparent that storm was in it for the long haul.  That storm tracked due south…

An answer, that as one of my current favorite songs by Harem Scarem is titled, is ‘Slowly Slipping Away’.  Truthfully, what a great album they did there in the early 90s at the tail end of the hair band era (damn you, grunge)… anywoo, I digress… It was about 36 hours ago when today looked like a sure-fire chase day, but similar to just about every day this past week, things just unraveled, this day a bit slower than the earlier days this week.  Honestly, if I had it to do over again, I would’ve chased yesterday and sat out…

First blog entry using my phone, so forgive.. well, whatever happens that is odd with this entry haha I’m at Starbucks while my car is in the shop. With about 233 miles left on my 100K warranty, I drove straight in from last night’s hotel to the shop to address a few items to be covered before I turn over 100K. With some non-covered items to tend to, I’m gonna get about $3000 worth of work for ~$1100, so I’ll take it! Two quick notes… first, yesterday’s chase was pretty damn good. I saw what was easily the most dramatic…