If you’ve followed me for a long period of time, you know I compare chase season to football season; with March being the pre-season chsaes, April through June the regular season, the summer into early fall the post-season, and the winter the off-season. If you believe the long-range models, the regular season may have a formidable kickoff. Still 7-10 days out, but the general consensus among the longer-range models indicates a pattern change that’ll bump us from this stagnate, hot pattern we’re currently in. There’s a small area outlooked for this coming Thursday, but right now that’s got all the makings of a crashing cold front event, so I am not particularly interested in that. Figure I can squeeze in whatever down time I can here at home before we get rolling in April, as that period looks like it could be a decent stint. The Nikon exchange I wrote about last week, my camera body arrived today for the exchange, so I am hopeful that gets processed and a new, NON-glitchy body gets sent out in the next day or so. Obviously I would LOVE to have that in hand and set up ahead of whatever next week has in store.
Also worth a note that I have finished the edits of my first upload on my new rebranded YouTube Channel! I am super excited to post this video this upcoming Friday; it covers the story about my first ever storm chase and tornado back in 1997! As part of my 30th Season Celebration, I have had a variety of projects I have been working on in my off time, and the rebranded YouTube was one of those. I recently cleaned up the channel, taking down a lot of the old stuff, and am prepping the site for a more structured channel. This video will kick off that structure, and not a better way to do it than with the first chase and the story behind how it all came to be. I am SUPER proud of what this looks like; and other than a few small polishes here and there, she’s ready to go. I may do a Facebook live stream during the premiere, which will happen at 6:30pm MDT, so I may stream for an hour to celebrate it. I don’t have a massive following and it’s on a Friday, so I won’t be expecting a huge turn out, but I am doing this more for me to scratch a bunch of itches I have developed over the last couple years regarding how to archive my career. Season 30 seemed like a solid place to kick all that off.
That all said, I am going to get back to work… I took a ‘lunch break’, and wanted to put some words to paper while they were sloshing around in my melon. Now that I’ve done that, I need to point my melon back to it! Peace!