Storm Chasing Handbook
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In mid-March storm chasers starting paying close attention to long-range forecast runs showing a very dynamic system that would progress into the central plains. Everything appeared to be shaping up for a major tornado event – but what first appeared to be a classic setup turned out to be classic dud.

Whether your a seasoned storm chaser, or someone who just wants to keep tabs on the latest surface observations, chances are that you’ll find the new stormchase.mobi a useful tool for your hand held mobile platform.

Reservations are now being accepted for our 2010 Storm Chasing Tours. We began taking reservations only 20 minutes ago (at midnight) and have already confirmed 2 reservations!

Whenever possible I always try to attend various launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and with no weather of notability happening in the plains – Renee and I decided to make a trip to the east coast and witness the launch of STS-119 from Titusville, FL.

Greensburg is for sale! Not the town that was almost completely destroyed when an EF-5 tornado hit it on May 4th, 2007, but Greensburg the race horse. And half of the money that Greensburg brings at auction will be given to the town of the same name to help them with their continued recovery efforts.

The National Weather Service just released a 48-page report that contains the details of their service assessment of the Super Tuesday Outbreak of February 5-6, 2008.

Sirius|XM posted the company’s fourth quarter and full year results today with a pro forma adjusted income of $32 million (compared to a $224M loss of a year ago), making it the first time in the company’s history that it has reported a gain instead of a loss.

StormWiki is sort of like a giant science related social experiment – it has been created to collect the knowledge of its authors for the learning experience of its readers. Its authors can be anyone – perhaps you might decide to write an article on a topic related to severe weather and that you know something about.

First of all – I want to thank Tyler at The Spotter Network for accommodating our map widget. He had to make some slight modifications to the spotternetwork.org to make everything work nice and smooth.

Last year I had the opportunity to attend the launch of space shuttle mission STS-123, which was a night launch and that was particularly exciting for me. We arrived on the site around 4 p.m. in the afternoon even though the launch wasn’t scheduled for liftoff for another 11 hours – each minute that went by was filled with the anticipation of what my resulting photos would look like.

We’re excited tonight – and tired! The first flash map widgets specifically for The Spotter Network (www.spotternetwork.org) are finally ready for our first release!

We’re going to be burning the midnight oil over the weekend to try and complete a lot of the work that still needs to be done before we launch our “testing phase” of our new flash maps and we’d like your help – if you would like to help us test out our new map on your website and/or blog, please send me an email (brian at stormchase dot com) and let me know about it – I’d love to have your help.

When four friends, including two NFL players decided to head out into the Gulf of Mexico for a fishing trip on the morning of Saturday February 28th, their fate was probably already sealed.