Ian Sean Livingston
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"Storm Chase ’11"
We’re in Great Bend, Kansas this morning, still waiting out the break in action. More on that later…
We managed to fill our afternoon/early evening yesterday by finding a large brush fire near Ellinwood (named after one of my chase partner’s family), Kansas. The plume showed up on radar, and we used it as an [...]
We ended up in Texarkana (on the Texas side) last night after almost 24 hours — and over 1,200 miles — of driving. Now we’re back on the road headed toward Kansas, where we will be meeting with Mike Smith of WeatherData tomorrow.
Rather than get into the details about the next few days [...]
We’re running live cam/tracking for chase days.
1:10 p.m. CDT update: A tornado watch is up for the area now, we’re just about to pass through Memphis into Arkansas.
11:00 a.m. CDT: As I posted earlier, we ran into some neat clouds this morning just [...]
A panorama image of asperatus clouds over central Tennessee on May 1, 2011.
The final countdown is on to the departure for two weeks of storm chasing. The plan is to leave Maryland around the crack of dawn on Sunday and head west (or South?).
Counting down till my first storm chasing experience in the central United States. The plan is to be out there for about 10-12 days in May.
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- And N LA, N NE, W KS.. we are so due RT @WeatherWarrior1 @islivingston LOL, bad memories of MO from last year? 16 hours ago
- And yeah that's still 6-7 days out. So, even though it shows it 3 of 4 runs for days it's probably wrong. 16 hours ago
- GFS still faster than the Euro. It's pretty insistent that we'll be targeting somewhere like Iowa next Thurs. (must avoid MO at all costs). 16 hours ago
- And if I miss an outbreak while landing back in DC and preparing to turn around 3 hours later--well, I think I called that like 3 mo ago. 17 hours ago
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