Thanks to Alan, Jack, Bob, Ann, and Rick for the comments (and to all whose mothers taught them that if you can't say something nice, say nothing). I'm kidding. Criticism is always appreciated.
Specific to Rick's last comment... I'm interested, not just in thunderstorms, but in thunderstorms that reach the Severe-warned criteria (quarter sized hail or 60+ MPH wind or tornadoes). I'm also interested in structure, so supercells is what I'm usually hunting and discrete supercells (that have some territory all to themselves) are even better. They are storms that can wrap themselves up into UFO like structures (as Ann's comment alluded to). I had a lot of storm in the area last evening, but I got interested when I saw one that appeared to be discrete and heading for even better supercell weather parameters. This storm was approximately 75 miles away from me when I noticed it on radar at 6:30 and I had to not only reach it and hope it was (still?) photogenic, but I had to do so before dark - preferably before sundown. Just accomplishing that was satisfying. On my way to this storm, it was putting out golf ball sized hail at one point, according to radio reports. On my phone radar app I also observed it split twice - calving new supercells that took off to the northeast towards Broken Bow, NE. The original cell appeared to be a classic "right mover" and was moving southeast while the general storm motion was NE. This is normally the sign of one that could be The Storm of The Day. Sadly, I did not get a large number of images and the storm ran into some high temp air aloft and began to die about the same time as I reached it, but I still feel it was worth the trip. (I might not feel the same way if I had gotten a speeding ticket on the way). I'm still waiting for my encounter with a Big Kahuna that spits out a photogenic tornado or three. But I've picked up a lot of valuable experience this year and been pretty satisfied with my forecasting and chase strategies/execution. Already looking forward to spring 2016 on the Plains. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > So, Darren... > > Before we left for New Hampshire 3 weeks ago I bought a variable neutral > density filter. I really wanted to blur some waterfall or wave motion, or get > a long enough exposure to catch some lightning. > > Well... I got nada. The streams were very low and the waterfalls were > trickles. The wave motion pix were interesting experiments, but produced > nothing I would put in the bottom of a cat box. Despite SIX DAYS of predicted > thunderstorms (probabilities 60-100%), we heard one rumble and that storm > passed 6 miles and a range of hills to the south. > > So, I won't compete with your weather pics any time soon. I'm also not > interested in moving to Nebraska to try, and I wouldn't wish Nebraska weather > on Philly! > > I sure enjoy looking at your pics, though. > > Rick > > On Aug 28, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Darren Addy wrote: > >> Timing, road network, geography and storm motion allowed me to get >> this nice backlit updraft shortly before sundown last night. Hope you >> like it. >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/20924709756/in/dateposted-public/ >> >> Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure. >> -- >> Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
