Verne, Jon V, and I had fun yesterday on our gentleman's chase into Eastern Colorado. Fortunately Nature gave us a bit of a break by allowing us to go home early in the evening as opposed to chasing the giant MCS into Kansas. After dropping Jon off at his jeep, Verne brought me back to my car in Denver and joined me back at the Holiday Inn parking lot to steal some Wifi to make sure we weren't missing anything and were safe to head back west through town. Turns out Trego County was lighting up again and while it briefly brought a goddammit to my face, I realized I was tired and was happy to be heading home. I felt my weariness settling in after a rude awakening early in the morning by the idiotic maintance people at our complex who feel they have to finish all the loud obnoxious work at 8:30am!
Today holds some slim potential for severe, but looking at things for today, it looks as if slow moving storms and good moisture will make for a heavy rain issue with flooding potential. Almost looks like a monsoon-type setup with slow moving soakers, typically a pattern we see around here in late July/early August. These types of setups bode better for nighttime storms with good lightning. However, the heavy rain sometimes cancels that out as its a pain to shoot lightning in torrential rain.
The next few days looks relatively quiet for areas in and round here. A nice change of pace for me as I won't be missing much. I gave into the fact that I missed the best week of chasing this season and I'm likely gonna feel shafted on this season with as much road time as I put in. Basically, I've let go of the frustrations and realized I can't do anything to change 2005. I have to look ahead and figure out how to play 2006. Right now, I'm in winding down mode as any chasable weather will push up into the Northern Plains and hopefully allow for shorter trips and maybe one more photogenic tornado before all goes to summer-mode. My lightning shooting days, however, have just begun, so while the blood and guts of the chasing season has passed, there is still some gold to be worked from the clouds.
Anywoo, going to spend most of today doing website updates. I want to start knocking out my
media services page and getting my tornado and lightning albums up and running again! That's my plan for today and the upcoming days while on campus since the weather won't have all my attention for a change!
