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The 2025 convective storm season was pretty disappointing from both a photographic and a chasing perspective. Therefore to post my top ten images I had to dig into mostly non-storm photos:

January sunrise colors A sparse January snow The sole storm image: lightning and anti-crepuscular rays in May A July sunset after a “sorta” chase August beach sunset


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In the past I have posted my favorite images and chases of that year’s storm chases. For 2025…I got nothin’. At least, not much. I witnessed a couple of ho-hum wall clouds and saw a few unremarkable shelfs, but overall this year was a disappointment. A multi-week/month drought didn’t help, with little rain and no storms available for quite a stretch.

2026 will brin...


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The Integrated Warning Team (aka IWT) has been acclaimed across the weather enterprise as an enhancement to public safety via providing increased awareness of impactful weather conditions. Meeting periodically, these teams typically include meteorologists from the National Weather Service and broadcast (now including digital) community, as well as emergency managers and other...


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Those that have perused the posts on this blog know that SPC Moderate Risks are a primary source of the “White family curse”. Many of my storm chase busts have occurred during Moderate Risks, both here in the Mid-Atlantic and out on the Great Plains. This post is a look back at one somewhat lessened disappointment in August 2023.

On August 7th of that year the SPC i...


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It turns out that 2018 was the last year I traveled out to the Great Plains to chase. I went twice, the first trip being my final journey with the Virginia Tech Hokie Stormchasers as a driver/mentor. A week and a half after returning home from that expedition I drove back out west to Kansas City, where I picked up my brother from an airport hotel. We headed north and west fro...


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