Ramblings of a weather nerd
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2010
So we’ve spent the past week, at least, either chasing non-supercellular storms or not chasing at all. This has led to some serious boredom and frustration among the meteorologists on the project. I’m going to share a few of the “annotations” that have been made on SASSI, the program written by Mission Scientist Erik Rasussen [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2010
Sorry that my blog has been down the past 10 days. I thought I had renewed my domain name (www.scatteredrissa.com), but it appears I didn’t do it correctly. Needless to say, my blog is now back up and running, and will be so for the next year. I have some free time today so I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2010
Well, It’s been a very long 10.5 months since the last day of Vortex 2 2009 operations, and I’m hungry for more! The project officially starts tomorrow, Saturday May 1st, 2010 at 12:00:00 a.m. Luckily, I don’t foresee the armada leaving that early (thank God!). For now the pattern is looking very unpredictable for the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2009
Large tornado intercepted around 5 pm CDT June 5 , 2009 near La Grange, WY. YAY! Videos will be added tomorrow.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27th, 2009
Monday (May 25) View Larger Map We traveled from Norman to just southeast of Amarillo to meet up with the Armada. We waited around for some time, and we were then told to head for Estelline to set up for future targets. After approximately 15 minutes on the side of the highway in Estelline, we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2009
I’ve uploaded a few new videos of waves from Lake McConaughy, as well as buffalo and prairie dogs from South Dakota. Friday (May 22): We got up for the morning weather briefing and they told us that we’d be playing something right in our hotel’s vicinity in Hot Springs and that we’d be staying in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2009
I know it’s been a while since I posted, but I wanted to wait until I had more to talk about. Monday night & Tuesday (May 18 and 19): View Larger Map We arrived in Ogallala (try saying it… ’tis quite fun) Nebraska and stayed in a single hotel with the whole V2 armada. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2009
Map of the southern part of our root. View Larger Map So, today was our first day out on VORTEX 2. We started out in Norman, OK at 10 am packing our bags and equipment in to the car and left out of the parking lot at 11 am. We headed North on I 35 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2009
I got my graduation present in the mail today: a Canon Vixia HF 20 HD camcorder. I skipped on studying for my Friday final to stay home so that I could sign for the package thinking the UPS man would be by around 2 or 3. But the hours went by: 3, 4, 5, 6… [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2009
So, I’ve gotten a blog so that everyone can follow me on my storm chasing adventures. I won’t be able to tell you where I’m going or where I am specifically once I get out there, but I plan on spewing everything that happened from the previous day on here. I’ll do my best to [...]
