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…

Yesterday provided the goods, but I let impatience get the best of me as storms out west eventually did fire, some packing quite the punch, but the storm of the day blew up around sunset about 90 minutes and change north of Kearney, becoming an impressive supercell that did carry a tornado warning for the better part of an hour or so.  Unfortunately, it was far enough from me here in Kearney where I knew the likelihood of it maintaining itself as a supercell was unlikely, so I opted for the lightning consolation prize from about 40 miles or so…

As of today, 8/16, I sit at 30,991 miles, which currently sits at 8th highest all time.  With what likely will be a 1000-1500 mile round trip after Monday/Tuesday, I will likely break into my top 5 highest single-season miles.  And while unlikely I reach upper 30K, a Top 3 ending is definitely plausible.  Below are the season stats for the years that rank ahead of 2026.. #8 – 2026: 30,991 #7 – 2025: 31,018 (28 away) #6 – 2010: 31,676 (686 away) #5 – 2016: 31,835 (845 away) #4 – 2022: 33,387 (2,397 away) #3 – 2007: 33, 934…

Yesterday was another bleh day for me, all the while Denver took another day on the chin.  I just wasn’t feeling it, and despite those feelings, I did push myself out the door to make a short couple hour round-trip on some storms that fired along the northern Front Range.  Other than a couple clouds pictures and a couple bouts with some torrential rain, my best views came much later in the evening as the golden hour set in and offered up a full rainbow and brightly lit storm backsides.  Denver, particularly southeast Denver, once again took the brunt of…

That was my view on southbound Weld County Parkway heading toward Keenesburg as a seven-minute landspout tornado was ongoing in Denver proper north of Dicks Sporting Goods Park.  That was pretty much all today really produced, but that is a pretty big production.  No, a landspout, one that was likely didn’t do any damage, isn’t a headliner in 99% of cases, but one in the metro definitely moves up a couple notches.  Beyond that, sporatic reports of street flooding was about it.  My storms, while advised for landspout potential, all rained themselves out pretty quick, and I ended up in…