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One of these years….

Impact9 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:58:52 +0000

…I’ll be left alone during a storm season. This year I had to leave for 6 weeks to Colorado during April/May and Oregon in June. Last year I was deployed to the Middle East along with the previous year. This makes 3 years in a row that I have missed the majority of the storm season due to actions beyond my control. Lets see if my prestage planning works out so I can actually get some storms covered in 2011.

Back Home!

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:21:18 +0000

I got home last week from 6 weeks in Colorado Springs for training. I wish I could of got out and spotted there but what I seen of the road networks I didn’t like very much. Plus being right against the Rocky Mountains I was having a heck of a time predicting what was going on with the weather. I see what looked like good strong cells come across the mountains and they would build quickly and just as quickly die out. Got a few good pics but nothing fantastic. Anyways hoping these storms kick up or at least produce some lightning. I’m all about the sparks.

Tight Stream

Impact9 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:33:09 +0000

The jet stream kept the moisture really tight as it slipped east over the country killing any chance of tornadoes being developed. The first storm weakened the storms behind when they cooled the inflow air. Plenty of smaller size hail developed but nothing really significant except a few reports of straight line winds.

Snow Inbound!

Impact9 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:08:19 +0000

Looks like mother nature is going to give us one more drastic swing in the weather. We went from a nice 62F down to 29F and the rain started about 7pm. Right now at 11pm snow is falling hard and accumulation is building. Amazing this is the black asphalt roads are already covered in snow.

I may have to go out fishing tomorrow for poor souls trapped in the snow if these drifts build up like last Christmas.

Take a look at the live cam I have over on the right and you can sort of make out the 20k winds and snow fall.

Storms upon us

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:07:46 +0000

Looks like we’re off to a good season. I was able to watch Michael Phelps transmit his journey across the panhandles of Oklahoma and into northern Texas where he made a bad call and didn’t reach his initial target destination by choice. Luckily there was a few chasers in that neck of Oklahoma and captured some excellent video of the first tornado of the season. Bart Comstock did a fantastic job filming this beautiful twister live on Severe Studios.

Here’s a few of many videos that made it to the public from many of my companions on www.stormtrack.org

Jason Boggs:

Connor McCrorey

More toys coming

Impact9 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:32:19 +0000

Ordered a few goodies that should be here in a few days. Parts to rebuild my Inspeed anemometer. New dash trim for my truck so I can replace my recently damaged trim. 1/4″ acrylic dome for my camera. Then I’ll be picking up some sheet metal to build the adjustable mounting plate this next weekend.

I currently have my dash all torn up trying to clean up the wiring. Stereo is a real pain in the wiring department (really want a new stereo but no $$$ for that). I’ve been thinking of putting a small LCD monitor in my dash. I may be able to fit a 15″ in there with some minor but permanent modifications. Stinks to have all these ideals and no time or money to implement them.

Tweak Tweak Tweak Tweak

Impact9 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:28:17 +0000

Ahh the joys of using multiple webcams on multiply streaming services. Anyone care to share their Lifecam Cinema settings with me?

I’m waiting on a email quote from cleardomes for my roof webcam protective dome. Should be very interesting how this setup goes. I’ll write a how to guide once I get a few more supplies for my roof rack rebuild in.

Well I need to get some sleep since I got to work tonight. I should be back on day shift in a week or two.

Surprisingly good

Impact9 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:59:29 +0000

I’m sitting here watching my live home cam and it seems to be performing really well. If you notice that’s the neighborhood mailbox with a streetlight on the other side of the intersection. It actually sees the box just as good as I do. So I’d hHave to say I this little guy is going to get a brother here really soon.

HD webcam is up

Impact9 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:10:11 +0000

I just received my Microsoft HD Cinema webcam in the mail and have it running as my home cam. It seems to be doing a pretty good job compared to it’s 6 year old predecessor. I’ll have it streaming live video as long as possible for testing purposes.

I still have some tweaking to do of the website to get my widgets working showing local weather. Speaking of local weather when I changed the batteries on my weather station I forgot to hit the reconnect button so I have to climb back up on the roof and get it working again. Then of course training my kids not to mess with the computer all these gadgets are hooked up to.

Anyways it’s all starting to come together to begin the storm season next month. I can’t wait!!

Another webcam down

Impact9 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:29:28 +0000

Well one of my stupid logitech quickcam 4000′s that I use for the home cam died. Guess I’ll be ordering a nice replacement here soon. I rather have manual focus if that’s possible with today’s webcams. I did order a Microsoft CinemaHD for my truck so I’ll test that out as the home cam till this storm season kicks in.