Update July 3, 2009: Looks like maybe a chase today in south central NE. It has the feel of one of those days I'm not too crazy about, lots of clous there now with uber hot temps blasting away south of the warm front....but the day produces something nice. It feels a bit like the September 22, 2001 sc NE day and a cross with the July 26, 2002 se NE/Falls City day. Probably just the clouds and location and both those days produced something nice. We shall see.

Update June 30, 2009: The current plan is to get the prints section and stock section worked on finally. Got quite a bit done yesterday on that but a long way to go. The prints thing hasn't been worked on in forever. I think I'll go with 16x24 perspective instead of 16x20(8x12 instead of 8x10 etc). That is what the camera shoots at anyway and more often than not cropping hurts images.

I have a few chase accounts I can add, but those will have to wait. Like the Oregon MO hailer supercell and the Hastings NE tornadic supercell(and some others). Both of those are probably more interesting on video than in stills. That is another thing. I might actually be able to make a new chase video finally with stuff from 2006-2009, but of course having to leave out the couple tornado days I already have included on Instability Released(4-6-06 and 3-28-07). Thanks to my computer not liking to capture from the canon HV20 it will probably require getting a new computer to do it, if that will even help. I can capture perfectly fine from the Sony HC1 HDV camera and have just never figured out what the deal is with capturing from the Canon HV20 HDV. Sections of video the computer just does not like to capture, yet the same sections are perfectly fine on playback. Should probably research all that before trying a new computer approach.

I hope I limit my chasing now as it never seems to end up worth it this time of year, unless it's something obvious. I was thinking on the last chase, when was the last time July paid off. 2004. But maybe that just means I'm due with July lol. In the past it paid off in 2000 nicely, 2001 sort of with hail and dog and wind and dirt video, 2002 a few days, and 2004 big bad Bartlett tornadic supercell. If there's much night lightning here I'll of course head out on those. Tonight actually has near record lows forecast in the low 50s. Crop fog "season" might start early this year. Wonder if that's cool enough for river or lake steam too. Anyway that's the current plan.

Update June 26, 2009: Starting to feel a bit like Forrest Gump at the end of his cross country ruuuunniang. Anyway, here's a couple images from a 700 mile shelf chase. Wound up west of Merriman NE on garbage, as feared, but the shelf action on the way home made it a bit more tolerable. West of O'Neill it got crazy, almost wanting to be supercellular in areas(line echo wave pattern stuff). I think the dewpoint in Ainsworth was 75 at one point. Like back home! Felt a bit odd being out there and sticking to anything and everything in the car. It's just too bad about the hot and dry 850/low level jet blasting away the southern parts of the line. It wanted to be epic almost.

I wish I would have been more north after this part as it looked pretty impressive up there. The thing was moving amazingly fast. Usually you head home and leave the storms behind. Not this thing. It was always right there on your heels. It made picture taking quite difficult. Couldn't spend a ton of time looking for a spot with no powerlines or it'd be on you again. One of the better night views I've had in a good while anyway. Kept looking back at the thing and saying all sorts of words.

Update June 22, 2009: June 21tst IA account now up HERE.

Update June 19, 2009: June 17th account now up HERE. I have some others to do, at some point.

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