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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

Some pictures from the local Chase Yesterday

Not a tornado people!

Neither is this!

Kinda looks like palm trees…but they are baby walnut trees.

This is a sample of the hail that I reported to NWS at quartersize.
0009 100 BEALLSVILLE MONTGOMERY MD 3918 7741 (LWX)

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Mon, April 26 2010 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Hurricanes 2008, Hurricanes 2009, Spring 2010, severe weather coverage, snow, storm chasing, summer 2009 » No Comments

Big storm north, high winds here in DC

TGI-Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 9:35pm EST
Lots of trees and power lines down around the DC region, big snows in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Reports have been coming in all day from various areas around Washington, DC of trees down, large branches broken and power outages due to those trees coming down on power [...]

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Fri, February 26 2010 » DC area weather, Winter 2009/2010, snow » No Comments

Video clips from Feb. 5th, 2010 Snowmageddon Part 1

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 11:37pm EST
Finally getting around to putting some video clips together for the web:

February 5, 2010 Snowmageddon Washington, DC from TheWeatherWarrior on Vimeo.

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Wed, February 24 2010 » DC area weather, Weather Warrior TV, Winter 2009/2010, snow » No Comments

HOLY COW! Lots of snow and little blogging

February 14th, 2010 at 1:21pm EST
I have no Valentine, so I’d better update everyone while I have the time.
It has been a crazy week and one-half. From the last post you can see that we were staring down the barrel of our first of two HISTORICAL winter snow events for the DC & Baltimore [...]

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Sun, February 14 2010 » DC area weather, Historical Events, Winter 2009/2010, severe weather coverage, snow » No Comments

BIG STORM!!!! DC and points west to get SLAMMED!

February 4, 2010 at 5:41pm EST
We could see a record storm starting Friday afternoon
Well, for the second time this winter season we could see a 12″ plus storm. In fact most everyone is on board with this one now, calling for 14-24 inches. This could even out do the last major storm we [...]

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Thu, February 4 2010 » DC area weather, Historical Events, Winter 2009/2010, snow » No Comments

A few more inches Today, BIG STORM Friday!

February 3rd, 2010 at 10:53pm EST
Beautiful snowfall overnight and Big Storm Coming!
Spent most of the overnight and morning hours following and recording the 4-6 inches of snow that fell in upper Montgomery County, Maryland. This snow was a somewhat wet and really stuck to the trees making for one of the most beautiful snow [...]

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Wed, February 3 2010 » DC area weather, Winter 2009/2010, snow » No Comments

Surprise snow totals for DC area.

January 30, 2010 at 9:55pm EST
Hot water heater issues prevented any outing today in the snow.
I was all set for today. Actually I was even going to head out last night, going south toward the higher snow fall rates and anticipated snow depths. However, before starting to get my things together I had [...]

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Sat, January 30 2010 » DC area weather, Jason personal, Winter 2009/2010, snow » No Comments

A fantastic trip to the Newseum in Washington, DC

January 27, 2010 at 10:20pm EST
First trip to museum about the field of news and media
I took a trip today in to downtown Washington, DC to the Newseum right on Pennsylvania Avenue, within a long stones throw on the US Capitol building. Unfortunately I had limited time during my visit (the group’s bus was [...]

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Wed, January 27 2010 » Jason personal, Winter 2009/2010, public display, snow, storm chasing » No Comments

Polar Bear Plunge / Snow this weekend

January 26, 2010 at 10:33pm EST.
Busy Saturday, whether it snows or not.
Yup, the Polar Bear Plunge annual event is going to be this weekend at Sandy Point Park near Annapolis, Maryland. This is when a bunch of foolish people raise money for Special Olympics by agreeing to jump in to the ice cold Chesapeake [...]

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Tue, January 26 2010 » DC area weather, Jason personal, Press, Weather Events (festivials, Weather Warrior TV, Winter 2009/2010, snow, storm chasing, summer 2009 » No Comments