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LIVE CHAT TONIGHT - 8PM CDT (in like 30 minutes)

If all goes as planned, I'll post the live youtube link here.  That should redirect you to my "Wild Snakes" channel.  There you can ask questions, post comments and say hello to others. ...

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NAME THIS PHOTO

I'm working on my website attempting to develop an easier (more enticing) system to sell prints.  Several of my photos have dumb, boring names. Let's fix that first.    

This is ...

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The "Wind Breaker's" First Chase

Between booked performances and surfing, I was able to squeeze in a storm chase yesterday in East TX.  It was pretty uneventful, but nice to get some red box time regardless. 

Missed the T...

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SURF IN TEXAS?

Instead of watching Hurricane Michael destroy property and people, I buried my head in the sandy green water of Galveston Texas. Almost afraid to open the news. Want to just enjoy today's memories. La...

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Hurricane Michael... Bad or Swell?

As Florida buckles down for Hurricane Michael, Texas surfers already have hopes through the roof for what looks like a set up for epic Texas surf (equivalent to typical California surf). 

Right...

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SONG OF THE SCARY MONTH - "My Hell"

The hell is the lonely, abandoned home. The demons are the worries. The ghosts are the memories... The removed furniture imprints in the carpet, the empty cabinets , the missing picture frames. &nb...

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COLORADO MAGIC (New Video Link)

Fellow Patron Terry asked why I didn't post the new video here. So in case some of you missed it, here it is.     

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STORMS THIS WEEKEND

LOOKS LIKE AN ACTIVE WEEK OF STRONG STORMS and possible some tornadoes. There currently appears to be a lot of overturning and residual mess, but somebody somewhere should get some neato pictures.&nbs...

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Guess What County Has the Most Tornadoes?

Weld County Colorado had the most tornadoes reported between 1952 and 2010 at a whoppin' 252.   I've never seen a tornado there.  Guess what county came in second?  MINE!  Har...

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The Best Storm I Didn't See

This is the Simla Colorado Supercell and anticyclonic tornado from 6-04-15. After chasing 10 Colorado dud set-ups, I decided to choose KS the next round. Then this happened. Closest I've come to cryin...

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NEXT VIDEO - THE COLORADO CURSE

Chasing tornadoes in Colorado is weird, and I haven't exactly been lucky there.  Typically each year I'll chase 5 or 6 decent CO set-ups and then skip a mediocre day or two.  Those are the d...

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The Second Season...

Ever so slight risk for severe thunderstorms Thursday & Friday.  This round isn't currently speaking to me, however I hear the whispers of the Autumn tornado season right around the corner. &...

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Hurricane Florence and GOES16

GOES 16 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) provides high spatial and temporal resolution imagery of the Earth.  GOES is one of my favorite tools for forecasting thunderstorm init...

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Bear, Mountain Goats, and John Lithgow

The wife and I took Mom to Glacier National Park in Montana this holiday weekend.  We saw a black bear, mountain goats, big horned sheep, a garter snake, a bald eagle, incredible scenery and much...

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PATRONS HOOKIN' ME UP!

NEW DASH CAMS: So how about this... Fellow Patron "Storm Angelus" scored me 2 constantly running dash cams for FREE. One constantly shooting 4K 30fps out the front and another shooting HD 60fps out th...

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Fulgurite / Petrified Lightning

IN MY NEXT VIDEO I'm trying to track down the locations of the close lightning strikes featured in my previous video, in the off chance I'll be able to locate a fulgurite.  Fulgurites are often r...

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NEXT VIDEO Sneak peek

I know I've been a little quiet this month... Been on a mad-scientist editing binge.  The 2018 footage has me super inspired and I'm hoping to churn out a 3rd video this month.  

THE NEXT ...

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NEW THIEF DETERRENT SYSTEM

One of the many things I love about driving a coupe is a trunk. All your tool bags, cheap gadgets and golden grahams are hidden behind sheet metal.  

In an SUV you've got a back flap with visua...

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THE NEW CHASE VEHICLE :D

After 2 months of researching and shopping, I believe I got a practical new chase vehicle.  A Toyota Rav4.  

In order to be a real chase vehicle though, it needs 2 things. 

1. H...

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JULY SNEAK PEEK - Eye Candy & Eye-deas

All sorts of stuff on all the burners. I've completed archiving all my 2018 storm season footage and will start releasing bits of that in packages asap. 

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IOWA TORNADOES NOW!

Holy wow look at those supercells. Several reports of tornadoes already on the books in Iowa and it doesn't look like its gonna stop any time soon. I'm watching for my desk in Houston.

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TV SHOW INTERVIEW TODAY

Unless they hate my answers, It looks like I might be making some cameos in a new TV weather series.  I can't tell you what they interviewed me about, but I had to drive to CANTON today.  I'...

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LIVE CHAT July 14 9:30am CDT

Lets chat, debate, hang and discuss...  Hit the play button on the pic above to watch and listen. 

TO COMMENT, you have to be viewing from youtube... Click on screen above-> click "yout...

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A NEW FORM OF LIGHTNING IS HERE!

Wanted to start a thread here to see what you guys think of this. Can't thank you all enough for keeping the gas tank full.  So much footage to review...  

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NEW FORM OF LIGHTNING Caught on Camera!

The picture above is a type of lightning called Ground-to-Cloud lightning, or upward-moving lightning captured last week in Kansas.  Visually, you can see it reach upward from tall man made struc...

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PLAN A TODAY

The Storm Prediction Center was kind enough to outline our target area today in a mesoscale discussion (MD). MD's are the days cheat sheets or cliff notes for forecasters who are low on time. Plan A t...

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LIEOWA

Storm chasers joke that Iowa is "Lieowa." So many let-downs I guess. Today, it's really not looking too great in Lieowa... but perhaps that is the lie? Currently targeting west of Des Moines and wil...

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Heads or Tails?

YESTERDAY cell near Eads Colorado wrapped up for 1 cycle and then proofed into outflow. Second day in a row for that song and dance. Still captured some great lightning. That's been the hit song this ...

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Torn Between Storms

Two areas to choose from today... 1. Southern OK/ north TX: - 2% tornado might increase to 5% - more storm coverage, likely messy - good Sprite potential - 8 hours commute round trip (plus rat rac...

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This Week's Schedule

Active week it seems. These target areas are gonna be like little metallic football players standing on a vibrating board game. We'll see how level the surface is the board game was placed on. CURRE...

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