The Saints win the Superbowl and thus end what I consider my second season.  I always joke that there are two seasons a year for me; storm chasing and football.  I get an overlap of the two in the fall, but typically a void during the time after the Superbowl that I consider my chasing preseason.

My chasing preseason usually consists of a majority of the gear buying, conventions and seminars, setting up, and the preseason chases that get in the mix.  The last few years have seen chasing kick off in February, but typically I consider April 1 to be the start of my real season even as I log a decent chunk of my annual mileage prior to that.

At this point, it doesn’t look too good to get out on the road on a real chase during this February, but its hard to rule anything out in the last week of the month.  But right now, at least in the GFS range, its not looking promising.  But I am curious to see how the plains fare during the early season thanks in part to all the moisture in the form of snow they’ve seen this year.  Another storm should push through midweek giving those areas some more.

I mention that cause Colorado saw a very active storm season last year which I believe was due in part to the abundant moisture left over from the snowstorms (and occasional day or two of rain) that came through in April and early May.  If I were to translate that over, I would venture a guess to say that March and April should be pretty active as the moisture should be hanging around in the ground.  Again, you could swing to either side of the fence with your thoughts on that particular subject.  But I am harboring a guess that there will be a few better-than-average chases in the panhandles, southern Kansas, and central Oklahoma from early to mid March through mid-April.

Speaking of snow, or lack-thereof, we did see some out of the system that moved through today, but only an inch or two.  It was pretty sad minus the short burst we saw mid-morning.  I don’t think anyone in the metro area saw more than a few inches, and that’s pretty evident by the lack of a snow totals link on the NWS page.  I didn’t have a lot of hope with this system being it was too far south for us to see much, but I was still hoping for a few more inches than what we saw.  While it may be wishful thinking, I’m hoping that this is all setting us up for a huge knockout blow in March in what I would hope to be a March 2003 repeat.  And no, I will NOT chase the warm sector if Denver looks to see a storm of that magnitude moving through.  Three feet of snow is rare enough to win out on those seldom occasions.

So that’s really about it… just wanted to mark the end of football season.  Once I wrap up the last of my Ebay business, I will post the trade outs from old equipment to new to show what I managed to accomplish in my purge this month.

Congrats again to the Saints!  Gutsy performance that earned them the Championship.