Malacka11

Is the nam actually doing something legit or is that just noise? I understand that we've been trending minorly better for NE IL again but

Will certainly be a fun 24 hours. See how long it'll take gusts to start, hoping for some good GV storms maybe in a few hours, and I'd love to reel in some surprise death band tomorrow morning with winds but not holding onto that one ofc. Would love to see it happen though

If we're getting one more semi decent clipper in a few days then covering the grass with this one first would be cool. Ik I was talking big game about 12" or leave it but I hadn't fully processed that we could have one more mini winter period if we just get enough to stack at least Especially with the cold that comes part and parcel might as well play pretend one more time before next year

So it really is just a new thing huh

Gfs slightly better?

That's an almost comical cutout of Iowa

18z moment

If it's less than 12" here personally I'd rather just let WI get their 30"

I was literally waiting

Does this still count as the storm that you postered something about like three weeks ago re it being only 60-something runs out? Iirc it's only a day off right

According to googler Ai slopolopolis some previous 8 in stone was close to 2 lbs. Could you imagine getting hit in the head w a mini gym weight falling out of the sky at 100+mph? Shit could glance off my back and I'd probably choose to die anyway.

@frostfern I only have one 18-second long video that both of the other screenshots I shared were taken from. The transformer flash is visible at the end, barely; please don't mind my terrible camera work Btw maybe I'm reaching but what's going on at the far left end of the base there?

Like I always love to ask, what would synoptically make the difference in this case?

Yesterday was a very interesting chase. It was my first real chasing trip since getting hit by a satellite back on 4/4/23, so I was eager to have another shot at making safety my number one priority™. I was on the big boy sup for a little while as it cycled and then got to enjoy watching the entire storm tighten up from a very safe vantage point the whole time. It was really cool to observe broader and then tighter rotation show up again on velocity while looking at things in front of us, but then after a while it became fairly clear that there was most certainly a big ass tornado somewhere right in front of us that we couldn't see. Check this shit out. Despite a plethora of other notable things we came across, it was a bit lame to not actually really "see" the nader of course, especially since we were on it for over an hour with that sig ass signature on it. But just this morning, at the very end of the ~30 seconds of shit phone footage I managed to take, I came across this frame: I surmise it hit a transformer or something literally a second before I ended the video. Note the tree to the left and how it's present in the picture above too; they're taken literally fifteen seconds apart. Other observations include: - Shortly before this point, we came across a crap load of massive hail still on the ground. At least good golf ball+ still sitting around in this sunny field in this particular cell's wake. - Shortly before dark, right around the Indiana border, the car (presumably another chaser) in front of us slowed way down and was just weird, then kept going. When we got to that point moments later, we registered that they'd been looking at one of those tree trunk remnants that's still a few meters tall standing right next to the road which was literally glowing orange and spitting embers. Kind of cool to come across a fresh lightning strike like that right in plain view, especially because the chase was essentially over at this point. - On a more fucked note, on the way home on 65 or whatever, both sides of the highway were shut down at a certain point. I'm actually proud of how quickly it dawned on me that it's a bad sign that both north and southbound were shut down because my attention span was... spant at this point. A semi and an SUV laid overturned in the ditch-style median between lanes. We rolled down the windows and saw that all of the trees on either side of the highway were significantly damaged for a very defined ~100 yard swath centered around where the crashed vehicles were. Pulling out radarscope, this appeared to be almost exactly where the couplet had tracked just a little bit ago so I'm almost positive it was indeed the actual damage path of the tornado and not just wind damage. It was a very sobering way to end what was otherwise probably my safest, most incident-free chase so far.

Yeah it looks good to me irl but fuck do I know.

On the Pontiac cell, where to now tho

Should I go to Pontiac cell or new one in between

We should start a gofundme to buy one of yalls some streaming gear so we can have you on https://livestormchasing.com/

Could someone briefly let me know what the word is on expected storm speeds? At least it won't be one of those 50+ racing days right?

I think honest to jah I'm on the Alek train of just wanting interesting weather and then maybe tack on a white Christmas being mandatory for an A winter even if it's unreasonable

That's a cool little tool, thanks. I love being able to feel all sciencey

Ngl I'm kind of surprised how high you're giving

what I'd give to be able to reexperience GHD with the capacity to appreciate it to the extent it deserved Relatively fresh-off-the-boat yung malakuh simultaneously didn't know such a thing was possible nor how rare it was for here

Idk how that ended up feeling like it's the status quo lately but it's tough fs