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@frostfern I only have one 18-second long video that both of the other screenshots I shared were taken from. The transformer flash is visible at the end, barely; please don't mind my terrible camera work Btw maybe I'm reaching but what's going on at the far left end of the base there?

Like I always love to ask, what would synoptically make the difference in this case?

Yesterday was a very interesting chase. It was my first real chasing trip since getting hit by a satellite back on 4/4/23, so I was eager to have another shot at making safety my number one priority™. I was on the big boy sup for a little while as it cycled and then got to enjoy watching the entire storm tighten up from a very safe vantage point the whole time. It was really cool to observe broader and then tighter rotation show up again on velocity while looking at things in front of us, but then after a while it became fairly clear that there was most certainly a big ass tornado somewhere right in front of us that we couldn't see. Check this shit out. Despite a plethora of other notable things we came across, it was a bit lame to not actually really "see" the nader of course, especially since we were on it for over an hour with that sig ass signature on it. But just this morning, at the very end of the ~30 seconds of shit phone footage I managed to take, I came across this frame: I surmise it hit a transformer or something literally a second before I ended the video. Note the tree to the left and how it's present in the picture above too; they're taken literally fifteen seconds apart. Other observations include: - Shortly before this point, we came across a crap load of massive hail still on the ground. At least good golf ball+ still sitting around in this sunny field in this particular cell's wake. - Shortly before dark, right around the Indiana border, the car (presumably another chaser) in front of us slowed way down and was just weird, then kept going. When we got to that point moments later, we registered that they'd been looking at one of those tree trunk remnants that's still a few meters tall standing right next to the road which was literally glowing orange and spitting embers. Kind of cool to come across a fresh lightning strike like that right in plain view, especially because the chase was essentially over at this point. - On a more fucked note, on the way home on 65 or whatever, both sides of the highway were shut down at a certain point. I'm actually proud of how quickly it dawned on me that it's a bad sign that both north and southbound were shut down because my attention span was... spant at this point. A semi and an SUV laid overturned in the ditch-style median between lanes. We rolled down the windows and saw that all of the trees on either side of the highway were significantly damaged for a very defined ~100 yard swath centered around where the crashed vehicles were. Pulling out radarscope, this appeared to be almost exactly where the couplet had tracked just a little bit ago so I'm almost positive it was indeed the actual damage path of the tornado and not just wind damage. It was a very sobering way to end what was otherwise probably my safest, most incident-free chase so far.

Yeah it looks good to me irl but fuck do I know.

On the Pontiac cell, where to now tho

Should I go to Pontiac cell or new one in between

We should start a gofundme to buy one of yalls some streaming gear so we can have you on https://livestormchasing.com/

Could someone briefly let me know what the word is on expected storm speeds? At least it won't be one of those 50+ racing days right?

I think honest to jah I'm on the Alek train of just wanting interesting weather and then maybe tack on a white Christmas being mandatory for an A winter even if it's unreasonable

That's a cool little tool, thanks. I love being able to feel all sciencey

Ngl I'm kind of surprised how high you're giving

what I'd give to be able to reexperience GHD with the capacity to appreciate it to the extent it deserved Relatively fresh-off-the-boat yung malakuh simultaneously didn't know such a thing was possible nor how rare it was for here

Idk how that ended up feeling like it's the status quo lately but it's tough fs

Quite literally

joshing and joeking and baiting aside, I would love to see our lot try and survive just a single turbo feast/famine NE season. I've lost count of the number of mega dawgs they've had pop up well within kinda-not-fantasy-range only to go poof at ~100 hours just in '26. Yes I know you gotta live with it if you want 58734" Cat 8 slablizzard chances fives times a year in the first place, but that's exactly the problem. Shit cannot be for the faint of heart. I'm usually over it all by the second average-dawg rug pull of the season. Could you imagine going entire seasons with it literally hardly snowing and barely even a single head fake event, only to spend the very next year getting through like half a dozen possible major events that (irrespective of actual synoptic setup quality) show up well within reality range, with each one hanging around just long enough to trend away again? I think I'd probably be working for Exxon Mobil within two years.

Those are actually really interesting points, thanks. I believe that's straight up the foundation of the house and (for anything it's worth) I think the sump pump discharge goes right below there too. And definitely facing south-ish as well. The more you know

My dear mother just sent me this picture. Absolutely bonkers imo

Who else hear the thundah

Pretty nice returns over you atm no? How's it hanging?

Thought this was interesting enough to share w yall

Y'all are actually funny as heck Never been caught giggling at the weather forum before

Right. And I'm sure Joe wouldn't be shocked if we reel a storm in either after all in a week or two, since he never really recanted his prior optimism in favor of remaining aloof. My point is that the second issues like sun angle and shit become a problem, I'd rather just save our year-to-year pretend climo snowfall luck for next season. If we miraculously manage to mitigate whatever warmup is locked in and we reel in a monster 10-14 days from now, great. Too bad we couldn't get it in December. Normally I'd be here excited for the DABs we've got coming but again, it's completely futile because we're completely resetting next week it seems. I understand this is a personal banter take but