Osage Hills Panoramic

I'm playing with some panoramic software in aticipation of storm season.

About damn time

For Sunday. Thunder . . . Thunder . . . Thunderstorms! Weeeeeeeee.

I got nothing

Spring . . . coming soon.

California had a tornado today. Took the tin roof off of a barn, that's it.

No elephant's stampeding.

Storm Spotting

I 've had a few people ask how to storm chase.

The National Weather Service will be hosting spotter classes beginning in February and going through April.

Even if you don't have the stomach to chase, attend these classes. You never know when something will hit. You could be out in the middle of no where.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/?n=spottertalks

Attached is the schedule.

They used to have two Wichita talks, but now looks like they have one scheduled for March 10th at Northwest High School.

Winter is coming

One hell of a cold front is coming in. It's dropping temps 60 degrees in Montana. Not that serious here but my knee barometer will be pinging all day tomorrow. 10 degrees when we wake up on Monday, make sure your batteries are charged and clean.

Discovery

These guys are going to be on discovery's Storm Chaser series.

I've got respect for these guys, but they also scare the hell out of me.

Kind of a "Jackass" Storm Chaser special.

I've touted http://www.tornadovideos.net/ for a couple of years and I'm glad to see them get exposure.

Reed if by any strange twist of fate you read this, you got a fan in Wichita.

Active Year

Something of interest I found on Stan Finger's Blog over on the Wichita Eagle homepage. NOAA put this out showing the number of tornadoes this year vs Average. This had been an active year in Western Kansas. I remember a couple of times having tornadoes stretch from Liberal to Phillipsberg with 12 counties under warning at the same time. The following pic was a report of an outbreak. Wonder what the rest of the "Second Season" will be like?