Just finished up editing lightning photos from the chase night before last across West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. Fun, but long day, despite the lack of anticipated severe weather and flooding rains. It was nice to finally get a shot at some local lightning photography!
You can view all the photos and the chase story here. All the photos there can be clicked on for a larger size!
Today is one of those days when it’s hard to be excited about chasing. Storm Prediction Center has issued a high risk for a large portion of Oklahoma and southern Kansas, and more than one long track, violent tornado is a distinct possibility. Hail could be larger than baseballs.
While I’m certainly excited by what Mother Nature may have to offer for viewing, I’m equally apprehensive about the fact that someone is likely to lose life and property today. If you live in these areas, be certain to have your weather radios and to be paying attention to live news sources, because once storms fire, things are going to be happening quickly and storms will be moving fast. Have your plan now, because warning times are going to be short and you may not have much time to react.
I’m heading out to Oklahoma today to chase this set up, of course. But I expect it will be difficult to due to fast storm motion and what is sure to be a very large amount of storm chasers on the road.
Shortly after noon, I will be live streaming video for the remainder of the day on the LIVE ChaseCam page.