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Decided to take a bit more southerly option. Will be stopping in Olney, TX to watch the convection trying to get going nearby.
Written by David on May 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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Errands completed and hitting the road in just a minute for eastern NM. SPC has issued a Severe Thunderstorm watch for all of Eastern NM east of the Rockie Mountains, and a couple of counties in to western TX. Supercells expected, and couple of tornadoes possible. Convention has already begun with storms underway just east of the mountains.
I will be heading west toward Lovington, NM and possibly on to Roswell. Not giving up the option to drop south. CAPEs are a little higher down that way, I’ll play it by ear and make adjustments as needed.
I’ll be running solo, so not sure how often I can update the blog today during the chase. LIVE ChaseCam will be active here shortly. I haven’t chased in eastern NM in a couple of years, so I am not sure how good my data coverage out that way will be. Last time I was out that was, there was none. Coverage has improved greatly, so hopefully I will be surprised. Availability of the LIVE ChaseCam of course will hinge on the ability to get that data connection out in the wild. Hopefully things have improved.
Written by David on May 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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As seen on the LIVE Chase CAM: Tornado south of Lamesa, TX
Written by GrahamB on April 23rd, 2008 with 8 comments.
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As the regular readers already know, last Sunday I launched the new LIVE ChaseCAM. Sunday and Monday chases in Oklahoma were the final test days for something I have been looking forward to doing for a long time. I am happy to report the testing was a huge success and the camera will now be on during every chase. Be sure and subscribe to the blog so you will get updates and now when I am chasing so you can watch for the storms!
As always, I love to hear feedback on how the ChaseCAM is working out for viewers and also love to hear about anything in particular that you thought was cool that you saw on the ChaseCAM! Feel free to comment on it!
Written by David on April 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Right on the heels of our Severe Weather Awareness day, an early season chase presented itself in the central north Texas area on up through Oklahoma. I played the more southern end due to the aggressive cold front further north, not wanting to get undercut right away by the cold air. Turns out the only thing that wanted to spin today was stuff that crossed the front itself, for brief time. A few chasers caught a tornado up in Oklahoma like that.
I sat in that location above for quite a while, watching a storm north of me and one to the south of me that was all alone and I had higher hopes for, but it never made it. All in all, not much to write about but it was nice to get out and sit in that peaceful place. Not another car passed the whole time. I did get a nice pic of the northern one as it started to cross the front and get more organized.
It’s been an incredible busy last couple of weeks, what with getting vehicles ready, equipment upgraded, paying work. I haven’t had time take a breath hardly. As such I have neglected posting here a little. I am finally started to wrap up on some things. Most of the work on the chase vehicles is competed, minus a few minor things. I am wrapping up one paid website project tonight hopefully. That leaves the big one I have been working on for months remaining that I am going to try and hammer and get completed. It turned out to be epic, over 800 pages!
Noting the poll I started on the website about a year ago to see if anyone was interested in seeing video logs, or vlogs as they are known on YouTube. While not a really large number of people have voted, it’s been a landslide that there is interest there, so I am hopefully going to be starting that VERY soon, through a channel on YouTube. I of course will post that here as well when it gets started. Turns out they might also get cross posted on the TV station website as well.
I also tested Friday on a 200 mile trip a streaming webcam, which looks like is going to be very feasible. This was mostly for live coverage by the TV station, however I may post it to the website, especially on days I don’t chase locally for the station. At least until I can figure out if the server I am posting it to can handle multiple requests. They have to come first.
Overall, a lot has been accomplished, more work to do. Maybe as soon as I get the large website paying project finished I can get back to putting the old chase accounts on this website. I do have a couple more potential paying jobs in the pipeline however. Guess I can’t complain. 
I have to admit, it feels pretty good to get so much off my to-do lists the last couple weeks!
Written by David on March 9th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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