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
If the system does develop to the point of my deciding to chase, I have to already have plans in place to proceed. Often when I begin planning the first thing is how to get to the target area. Right now that is extreme south Florida into the Florida Keys.
–Home to Key Largo = [...]
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Tue, July 20 2010 » Hurricanes 2008, chase vehicle, hurricanes 2010, storm chasing, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments
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
Just a quick reminder that I have all kinds of storm and weather related videos on YouTube. I’m going to be populating the account a little more with more Hurricane and Storm Chasing specific clips.
The Weather Warrior on YouTube
I already have a few videos that including Hurricane video from Isabel in 2003 and Ike in [...]
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Wed, October 21 2009 » Fall 2009, Hurricanes 2008, Past Weather Stories » No Comments
October 17th, 2009 at 11:38pm EDT
NOAA Hurricanes of 2008 satellite time lapse
You’ve got to watch the movie via the link below…it’s totally cool. 2008 was the first year I returned to chasing hurricanes since 2004 due to my illness or lack of storms (2006 & 2007). But in 2008 I was able to [...]
Tags: Gustav, Hurricanes 2008, Ike, NOAA
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Sat, October 17 2009 » Fall 2009, Hurricanes 2008, storm chasing » No Comments
Thu, February 5 2009 » Hurricanes 2008, Past Weather Stories » No Comments
A little snow, and a new DVD to watch
December 6th, 2008 at 11:08pm EST
While with a friend helping him with some home improvements on his newly purchased house, we had some flurries around 5pm this evening in the Colesville area of Silver Spring, Maryland. It flurried for a good hour prior, but then finally [...]
Tags: Chris Collura, DC area weather, Hurricane Ike, Jeff Piotrowski, Jim Edds, snow
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Sat, December 6 2008 » DC area weather, Hurricanes 2008, snow » No Comments
A catagory 4 Hurricane in November
Novemeber 8th, 2008
A quick update to the blog, because I haven’t even talked about it….Hurricane Paloma in the Carribbean Sea. This very unusal situation of having such a strong hurricane this late in the season. the good news for the United States is that it isn’t a threat [...]
Tags: Carribbean, Cuba, Hurricanes 2008, Paloma
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Sat, November 8 2008 » Hurricanes 2008 » No Comments
Well that was quick…Omar now classified as a Hurricane
Update: October 14th, 2008 at 10:59pm EDT
Well, since my 7pm blog post, the 11pm update from National Hurricane Center (NHC) Discussion has revealed that Tropical Storm Omar has now been upgraded to Hurricane Omar and winds are estimated to be 75mph. The satellite imagery is in [...]
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Tue, October 14 2008 » Hurricanes 2008 » No Comments
Tropical Storm Nana and Invest 98L
October 13th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Yes, up late with all kinds of stuff. Earlier today (well yesterday) Tropical Storm Nana formed in the middle to easter Atlantic. This is quite unusual for this time of year, to have a system formed and named within the Cape Verde region of [...]
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Mon, October 13 2008 » Hurricanes 2008, Jason personal » No Comments