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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Apr 10, 2017 - 11:40pm PT
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Apr 11, 2017 - 11:27am PT
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I live in Norman, OK, home of the Storm Prediction Center, National Severe Storms Lab, and a host of weather research institutes. There are more meteorologists per capita here than any other place on Earth.
I started going out storm chasing in the early 90's. Within a few years, I started volunteering on the Spring Tornado Missions, where we went out with a dozen instrument-laden vehicles, mobile radars, sometimes aircraft.
I learned a lot about mesoscale meteorology over the next 12 years or so. We never liked the guys who just chased to get video, but in the early days, we all knew each other, and it was cool. These days, there might be a hundred chaser vehicles on a single storm, clogging the roads.
I stopped going out with them about 5 years ago. I still go out, but it has to be just right, and close to home. We used to get up, drive to SW Nebraska, follow a supercell into Iowa until dark, and then drive home. It was brutal driving that much. We did all kinds of field experiments: hurricanes, electrification, boundary layer, you name it. I've seen a lot of storms.
I only go out when it is a good day, storms are close and upstream, no more than 40 miles or so away. The 2013 Moore F5 was really close, There are only 1 or 2 F5's a year, out of 1100+ tornadoes, most tornadoes are out over open country. Getting on an F5 with a perfect road network is once in a lifetime.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-gentlemans-chase
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Apr 11, 2017 - 01:18pm PT
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very cool Base 104
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Apr 11, 2017 - 05:02pm PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Aug 10, 2017 - 09:36pm PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Aug 24, 2017 - 04:19pm PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Sep 13, 2017 - 09:58pm PT
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jan 11, 2018 - 02:56pm PT
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Aptos area today.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 11, 2018 - 04:11pm PT
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^^^^^^^. RAD!
Circular chemtrail?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2018 - 04:20pm PT
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Atmosherics are mostly sunsets and sunrises. This whole thread has been a waste of time.
;) :)
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2018 - 10:19pm PT
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Salt Lake City. I remember this as being pretty common in San Francisco Bay but have been told it's not in SLC. I wonder if it has the same cause.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 12, 2018 - 07:02am PT
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 12, 2018 - 07:11am PT
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It was better just a few seconds before I took this.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Jan 12, 2018 - 12:00pm PT
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(screen shot from Mammoth Mountain webcam looking West)
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jan 23, 2018 - 10:39am PT
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Just caught up here. Beautiful additions. Special mention for the largesse and excellence of hooblie, and glad to see someone not afraid of (but apologetic for) going outside trying to show just the way it really looked.
Atmos[p]herics are mostly sunsets and sunrises.
Refraction
14 Jan 2018
14 Dec 2017
wider view of 14 Jan
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