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Local Chase/tropical News

An interesting day locally, and a tropical invest for the Caribbean Sea.
June 26th, 2009 at 8:02pm EDT

Above you see what could be mistaken for a tornado, but was in fact nothing more than a scud cloud. A very stout vertical looking ingestion of air being pulled up into cooler air and condensing such that [...]

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Fri, June 26 2009 » DC area weather, storm chasing, summer 2009 » No Comments

Cell phones and driving do not mix.

One unfortunate event from a former chase apprentice.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:25pm EDT
Back a number of weeks ago, a fellow chase apprentice was out chasing some storms in east-central Virginia. He began in Maryland, and did a pretty decent job at driving through eastern areas of the DC region and down into southern Maryland [...]

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Fri, June 26 2009 » Jason personal, Spring 2009, chase vehicle » No Comments

Power Loss at home office/DC-AMS social.

Good time at a happy hour get-together in Downtown DC while my house has some electrical issues
June 24th, 2009 at 11:49pm EDT
Late yesterday after a full day of business and other items, I had to try and determine why the power is out in part of my house. I circuit breaker won’t reset, and [...]

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Wed, June 24 2009 » summer 2009 » No Comments

Tragedy in DC (Metro Rail Collision)

Trains collide, reports still coming in.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:24pm
Today I barely got the chance to pay much attention to the weather. Between errands in Baltimore, and interview with a guest writer at the Gazette Newspapers, and then when I get home, I hear about a terrible crash on the DC metrorail system that [...]

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Mon, June 22 2009 » Business Planning, DC area weather, Jason personal, chase vehicle, summer 2009 » No Comments

Quite (almost) weather for Father’s Day

Only some isolated storms today, Iowa the focus.
June 22, 2009 at 12:20am EDT
After a very busy week, it looks as though the severe weather held out for fathers everywhere, except areas of Iowa. Iowa has had a prolific supercell storm that has produced quite a number of preliminary reports of tornadoes. In fact, [...]

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Sun, June 21 2009 » DC area weather, summer 2009 » No Comments

Severe weather comes to Illinois

Severe weather hits hard in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio could see overnight severe weather.
June 19th, 2009 at 11:47pm EDT
A significant amount of severe weather that includes everything from individual supercells, to squall lines and and MCS that has really put out a lot of high wind damage reports and few tornado reports from today. [...]

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Fri, June 19 2009 » Jason personal, Spring 2009, Weather Warrior TV, chase vehicle » No Comments

More business planning between storms

A small break in storm activity today.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:52pm EDT
OK, been busy with storms lately, can’t even seem to keep up with photos and video. Of course I’m chasing in between many household and business requirements, so it’s been hard to sit at the computer for any length of time lately.

Still working [...]

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Thu, June 18 2009 » Business Planning, DC area weather, Spring 2009 » No Comments

Very active storm pattern in DC region

Lots of rain and thunderstorms the past few days.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:07am EDT
I have to catch up on photos and video yet, but wanted to briefly talk about the large amount of rain we’ve had over the past few weeks and especially the last three days. Two days ago I did venture out [...]

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Thu, June 11 2009 » DC area weather, Jason personal, Spring 2009, chase vehicle, storm chasing » No Comments

SPC new Day 1 issued

June 9th, 2009 at 2:32am EDT
Too tired for full update, but here is the new Day 1 tornado risk and the text is below, some text has been modified to spell out certain terms. I cut and pasted only the discussion for this area.

DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0100 AM CDT [...]

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Tue, June 9 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments

More storms coming this week.

A number of days forthcoming may see thunderstorms in the DC region/Mid-Atlantic
June 8th, 2009 at 11:58pm EDT

Not sure yet as to the prospects of my departing tomorrow. Still have some car issues to worry about for long distance chasing. I will be out no problem if storms are withing a 70+/- range of [...]

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Mon, June 8 2009 » DC area weather, Spring 2009, chase vehicle, storm chasing » No Comments