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Review: Hostile Winds by Mike Hollingshead

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 2:58am EDT
Well known storm chaser Mike Hollingshead’s latest tornado & chase related film.

The second DVD I’ve picked up for the 2010 season (previous was Bullseye Bowdle review). This video was done is a similar way, pretty much in the “chaser highlights” reel, but with a little more editing and planning. [...]

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Sun, August 22 2010 » Hurricanes 2008, Spring 2010, product review, snow, storm chasing, summer 2010, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

Arrived…Islamorada in the Florida Keys.

Saturday March 20th, 2010 at 3:25am
Palm trees, warm weather, salty air, and more return to my senses. Fun to be had later today (Saturday).
I almost forgot about doing a blog for the second day in a row. I haven’t been too busy, but I have been having a lot of fun which took [...]

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Sat, March 20 2010 » Fall 2008, Uncategorized, mobile weather station, other news stories, tropical storm coverage, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

JACKPOT ! 20″ of snow at my house.

December 20th, 2009 at 7:08pm EDT
Storm Report from yesterday’s EPIC and HISTORIC snow storm in Washington, DC.
DC/Baltimore NWS (LWX) reports map: “http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/events/?event=20091219 (hover over the numbers for readable information).

Wow…what a storm. I measured 20″ here at the house (Gaithersburg, MD). I spent much of the day in DC streaming live video, where it [...]

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Sun, December 20 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Historical Events, Hurricanes 2009, Winter 2009/2010, severe weather coverage, snow, summer 2009, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

Working on video today

Not much of an update for the blog today or tonight. I should talk about the likely frost the DC northern region is going to get, but I’ve been working on video lately. Had to move some files around a bit to free up some capture space (video files are huge). I [...]

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Mon, October 19 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Hurricanes 2009, Jason personal, Past Weather Stories, Spring 2009, snow, storm chasing, summer 2009, winter 2005/2006, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

My summary of Jim Reed presentation in DC

Great Presentation by well known Storm Chaser Jim Reed.
July 30th, 2009 at 12:45am EDT

As I have mentioned in a few past blog posts, I was looking forward to Jim Reeds presentation at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. And it did indeed go well. It is always fun to see fellow chasers talk [...]

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Wed, July 29 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Past Weather Stories, severe weather coverage, snow, storm chasing, summer 2009, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

One more teaser photo…

….and March 2009 Snow Storm Summary Page preview
March 5th, 2009 at 11:24pm EST

This photo is taken at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge toll booths toward the end of the March 2nd, 2009 Snow Storm.

I have started working on getting the Summary Page for the event together. Today was an extremely busy day working [...]

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Thu, March 5 2009 » DC area weather, snow, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

A Few Snow Storm Photos to Start

Two snow photos that aired on WUSA Channel 9 TV
March 4th, 2009 at 11:35am EST
The first photo was taken from near Queenstown, Maryland and is a picture of a row of mail boxes that were getting buried by drifting snow. Snow fall in the area was about 12″, but drifts such as these were 24 [...]

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Wed, March 4 2009 » DC area weather, IPR, Uncategorized, snow, storm chasing, winter 2008/2009 » 2 Comments

Review: Major snow event for DC

Here is a quick review from the last two days
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:26am EST
The last three days have been crazy, and I’ll be doing a more in depth review later today. But let’s start off with the day before the “winter chase”, Saturday February 28th. After a full day of watching the [...]

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Tue, March 3 2009 » DC area weather, snow, storm chasing, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

Sleet happening in the neighborhood.

A little snow, a little sleet.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:33pm EST
Got a Twitter message and a Facebook update from some folks nearby, so I turned the deck light on, and opened the door and there was some snow and sleet mixed falling and sticking to the deck. All paved and ground surfaces it seems [...]

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Sat, February 28 2009 » DC area weather, snow, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

OK…there will be snow…but where?

Boy…I may have been way off yesterday night.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:01am EST
Just spent three hours on the phone with Aaron DeBruin who is one of my forecast guys I like to share info with. He knows quite a bit, and is teaching me how to put my forecasts in to the proper terminology [...]

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Sat, February 28 2009 » DC area weather, snow, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments