Guest Post: Saxophone and Storms
Every once in a while I like to feature a post by a guest blogger from the worlds of either storm chasing or jazz. Today let me introduce to you my buddy Neal Battaglia. Neal is a tenor man who...
View ArticleGuest Post: Robert Edmonds on Multiple Vortices
The following is an unexpected and interesting guest post from fellow storm chaser and atmospheric modeler Robert Edmonds. Earlier this week I got a note from Robert, and, recalling some of his very...
View ArticleGuest Post: Roger Edwards Looks at the High Cost of Indiscriminate Budget...
Roger Edwards is a great guy–a Dallas Cowboy fan, family man, writer, photographer, and down-to-earth Renaissance man. He’s also a name anyone involved in storm chasing is either quite familiar with...
View ArticleThe Historic 2011 Tornado Season in Review: A Video Interview with Storm...
Just about any way you look at it, the 2011 tornado season has been exceptional, disastrous, spectacular, and heartbreaking. On April 25–28, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history...
View ArticleThe Historic 2011 Tornado Season in Review: A Video Interview with Storm...
This post continues from part one of my video interview with Bill Oosterbaan on his storm chases during the monumental tornado season of 2011. Since the interview involves one chaser’s recollections,...
View ArticleAn Interview with Shane Adams, Part 1: Retrospectives and Perspectives on...
In recent years, due largely to the influence of Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers series, storm chasing has exploded as an avocation. What began over fifty years ago with a handful of individuals...
View ArticleAn Interview with Shane Adams, Part 2: Thoughts on Target Selection, Memories...
In Part One of my interview with veteran storm chaser Shane Adams, Shane recalled his formative years as a chaser in a simpler time when laptops, mobile data, and the media hadn’t transformed the...
View ArticleAn Interview with Tim Vasquez, Owner of Stormtrack: A Mesoscale Forecasting...
Among the various weather-related forums extant today, Stormtrack has one of the longer—perhaps even the longest—track records. Not only so, but it also carries on a rich legacy begun in 1977 when...
View ArticleJazz Jams at Noto’s: An Interview with Guitarist Steve Hilger
Every other Thursday night, guitarist Steve Hilger hosts a jazz jam in the lounge of Noto’s Old World Italian Dining at 6600 28th Street SE. Located in the Grand Rapids bedroom community of Cascade in...
View ArticleStorm Chasing: The Anthology: An Interview with Blake Naftel
Amid my collection of storm chasing videos is an old VHS titled A Spotter’s Guide to Michigan Convective Weather. Produced in 2000 by Blake Naftel in collaboration with the National Weather Service in...
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