Decision

This is was not an easy decision, but with friends that actually do give meteorological and loving advice....I took this under serious advisement since the atmosphere of chasing a hurricane was not natural to me...There will be a time to chase a hurricane for sure in the future, but this particular one with nothing under my belt....it was not worth it....Thanx friends....My prayers go out to the safety of those in the path of this hurricane and to the emergency management teams for quick and safe efforts to get the people to safety....Till than keep watching the skies....
Skinner

IKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by tomorrow...my permanent decision to chase Hurricane Ike will be decided on forecasted landfall. My idea is stay within the premise of Texas and Louisiana border or just Texas....anything east is not worth it....so far all is looking promising so....just a matter of the ridge breaking or not causing the Hurricane to dramatically change its course due directly north pounding Louisiana all of a sudden....this is a possible scenario....
excited to see the intensity of IKE tom. afternoon as it passes over the lovely warm 30-32 degree Celsius waters....
till than keep watchin the skies...peace out!

How to Sum Up August

August 6th - GVTH w/ epic rainfall in Greeley
August 7th - GVTH w/ epic rainfall in Aurora
Irony in Denver on the 6th
in Greeley on the 7th
Missed these opportunities
August 10th, 14th chances to be out with the weather
August 20th, 22nd beautiful season changing sunsets
August 24th, 25th NE CO chases, playing on boundaries
Colorado weekend of the 22nd-24th had a fair share of landspouts and a waterspout on 11 Mile Reservoir....a friend of mine, Kevin Kronberger shared some photos of this waterspout and told me how exciting it was just to witness such amazing fury....

Bennett initiation

watching towering CU's develop with a SE component wind in Bennett! Fun stuff....

RAIN! WHAT IS THAT?

Denver & the front range got a new site of what rain actually looks like....record setting hot temps...to what could be the storm to introduce a change in the season...temps went from 84 to 68 in less than an hour at DEN obs with that cold rain falling....earlier bfor all the rain came coming down....a gustanado went spinning across to my north from my hospital room....i could not get my camera phone out in time bfor it went behind a building than dieing on the other side of the building...I got video of the gustanado dieing....whoopee doo....i wanted to rocket launch that building...what can u do? by the way if anybody knows how to download video from a cell phone onto a computer...I'm all ears....

on another note I will download some exciting cell phone pics from the last few days...once i can get access to my account online....peace out!

Nowcasting for Shep locally

Front Range getting its show of storms due to cold front pushing on in....cell to the north is what I'm nowcasting for Shep

now that's a forecast.....this is exciting

forecast still looking promising for 7/8 thurs/fri......