RE: Storm Chasers

DAB — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:06:52 GMT

After following the Storm Chasers TV shows for years, one thing keeps nagging at my head.

Why do they not organize to take advantage of their numbers? You see most of them converging on the same point only to miss the opportunity because of last minute changes.

They would have a much better and consistant data collection if they would work together to establish a network of vehicles around the storm area so that they get complimentary data for more storms.

From my observations, they end up missing most of the important storms because they are still very inaccurate in forcasting the weather events. Using a more coordinated group, they could have a larger effective collection area. More sensor sets could be involved on specific storm cells so that they could get a better running data sampling over more of the cell life cycle.

They are mostly missing clues that could be hidden in the development cycle of each storm because they are all too busy trying to predict the action site. This approach is too broad and way too hit and miss to yeild any consistant data.

Hopefully, this post will help alert them to establish better coordination amongst the storm chasers, both professional and amature with some basic instrumentation. If they improve the data set, they can improve their prediction capability to a point where they might actually get to use their Radar sets for higher resolution data.

Just a thought,

DAB