Web-Site Additions and Photos

Good evening everyone...

Thought I would share some news with everyone. I've been working on the web-site the past couple of nights and can officially announce that I am now offering semi-live radar feeds on my site.

The radar feed comes from GRLevel3, a radar visualization application currently running on my laptop from home. While the radar will not always be current, it will update every six minutes when I have the application running. Please note, also, that it will not always be centered at a set location. Radar sites will likely change fairly frequently, giving you an idea of areas where I may be monitoring weather features. This will generally be where severe weather will be occurring. As such, I'm referring to it as a Radar Imagery Floater. Featured among the radar imagery will be Base Reflectivity and Storm-Relative Velocity on a half-degree volume scan, as well as VIL (Vertically Integrated Liquid) data.

In addition, information regarding storm attributes, storm-tracks, storm reports, chaser/spotter locations, and surface observations will occasionally show up on the radar images.

I have also uploaded over 100 new photos to my Photo Gallery. These include pictures from a bowing segment from July 22, 2007 here in Grand Forks, ND, photos from Northwood, ND when Justin, Mike and I stopped through on our way back from the Northern Plains Convective Workshop in early April, and all my photos from my Chase Vacation that extended from May 24th through June 1st.

Enjoy looking through the photos and if you have any questions regarding the new radar imagery or photos, please feel free to shoot me an E-mail.

chase log completed!

Hi folks,

The chase log and photos from yesterday's chase expedition are now uploaded and ready for your viewing pleasure. I apologize for the poor quality of the photos, but stupid me forgot to check that the battery was in the XT before leaving town. I didn't notice until I was well past the Grand Forks Air-Force Base... Oops!

Anyhow, they both can now be accessed from my web-site.

Enjoy!

First thunder!

That's right, I'm here to report the first thunder of the year. We had widespread rain and embedded thunderstorms around the area this past Saturday evening and even though it occurred late, I pulled myself out of bed and sat waiting impatiently for that perfect CG to capture on the camera. It took nearly an hour of waiting! Most of the lightning came in the IC (in-cloud) variety, however I did count a grand total of two CG bolts. Luckily, I was able to capture one of them. If you are curious, head over to my PhotoBlog to view the picture.

In other news, widespread severe weather was reported throughout the weekend over the central and southern Plains and my heart, especially, goes out to those folks in Greensburg, Kansas. The small town was nearly wiped off the map from a massive tornado Friday evening, killing 10 people. Officials have estimated that 95% of the town was destroyed with the other 5% still suffering from moderate to severe damage. Please keep your thoughts and prayers with those people affected with this latest round of severe weather and tornadoes.