An overall very exciting year for my exploration of storms and nature across the country. I decided to let storms decide where I went and made an effort to get to multiple tropical systems (Hurricane Idalia, Cat 4, Florida & Tropical Storm Ophelia at the NC coast) along with a large amount (50+) tornado warned … More Best of 2023 – A big year of storms and adventure
A big day for storms yesterday! Although no tornadoes were reported, the storms exploded with intense wind and large hail. We started out our chase day south of Temple Texas, at around 2:00 PM where we prepared to intercept our first severe warned cell of the day. I was with my faithful chase partner and girlfriend … More First Midwest Chase of the Year
I have just arrived to Texas and I am now starting to get time to edit my pictures and catch up on my blogs. Its been an exciting last week and I have a lot of pictures to post today! Before I get ahead of myself, I have a couple of pictures from a pleasant surprise … More Last storm chase in North Carolina
Another week of some photogenic storms. This past weekend(6/28/13) definitely had the best results. I always keep my eye on the radar, and even on marginally stormy days, certain features can produce incredible images. This day in particular I had my sights on getting a good shelf cloud. The buzz of a possible shelf cloud started … More Extremely long shelf cloud
Being a person with my head in the sky, I am always looking for new perspectives of clouds….especially when it comes to storms. I received the perfect opportunity to do so the other day (6/26/13) when a strong line of thunderstorms came sweeping through Asheboro near my campus. I drove around looking for a perspective … More Storm Panorama
A successful storm chase yesterday! I am still going through pictures and video, but aside from tornadoes, we were able to catch everything else we were looking for. The position of the threat send Nic Roberson and I up to Petersburg, Va, to wait out the storms. While we were waiting, we made the most … More A lot of chasing, a lot of driving… 6/13/13
Still i the wake of horrible news (see last post), I set forth to cheer up by chasing some medium strength storms around NC. Usually around this part of the U.S. storms tend to have an abundant amount of moisture, usually restricting visibility of the storm structure. However, I was in for a pleasant surprise! … More Wide Open Storms
Exploring NC 