Buried picnic bench

Latest image from Verne's mobile picture phone - this shows just how much snow we got with this system, plus the temps today are in the single digits.

1 Foot of snow and still coming down

Latest image from Verne's mobile picture phone. We have a foot of snow at our house in Coal Creek Canyon, here you see our 65 Scout snowplow.

North table mountain in Golden, CO

Latest image from Verne's mobile picture phone. North table mtn in golden, a favorite trail running spot!

Cold Core in KS on Monday Nov 27th?

The GFS is showing a potential for a cold core setup on Monday Nov 27th. A tight 989Mb surface low is progged to be on the CO/KS border under a broad upper level trough over the four corners area. The SPC's 4-8 day outlook is also calling for severe weather starting this day and the next. I may have to extend my Thanksgiving break by a day and be in place to chase this event as a last chance at severe in 2006!

This comes exactly one year to the date that Darin Brunin, Dick McGowan and Scott Currens caught cold core tornadoes in central KS.

Awesome time at A-basin!

Latest image from Verne's mobile picture phone - the snow continues to be great!

Drink holder camera mount

I was looking for a place to mount my camera for a long time now and after looking at Brian Morganti's setup I decided I would do the same thing since I already have the truck bed bar, bogen tripod head and clamp. While checking dimensions I noted that the cup holder that slides out of the dash is just about in the right spot. Well, why not make the cup holder be the clamp position? I used a 1" length of dowel, two hose clamps and a cabinet door support and transformed my cup holder into an in-car camera mount. I will be testing it tonight to see if it's strong enough to hold my Sony HDR-FX1 video camera - but so far it seems pretty good. I may add an extra brace on the drivers side to stiffen it up.

The Storms of 2006 - coming soon!

The 23rd Severe Local Storms Video

The 23rd Severe Local Storms Video and Slide Extravaganza!

A few of my videos will be shown at next weeks SLS Conference in St. Louis, MO - thanks to Greg Stumpf for making that happen!

Tues 7 November 2006 8:00 – 10:00 pm

Video: “Chasing from the Back Porch IV” Walt Lyons
Video: “Tornadoes and Lightning” Tim Samaras
Video: Excerpts from “Eastern Fury” William Hark

Video: “Storms of 2006” April 24 Robin Tanamachi/Greg Stumpf

Video: May 7 2006 Verne Carlson
Video: May 23 2006 Verne Carlson
Video: August 24 2006 Bill Doms
Video: August 24 2006 Twister Sisters
Video: September 16 2006 Twister Sisters
Video: September 16 2006 Verne Carlson

Video: “Storms of 2005” May 12 Dave Lewison
Video: “Storms of 2005” June 9 Amos Magliocco


Thurs 9 November 2006 8:00 – 10:00 pm

Slides: Bob Schlesinger
Slides: Bill McCaul
Slides: David Blanchard
Slides: Roger Edwards “The Beauty of Atmospheric Violence”

Video: “Storms of 2005” Mar 21 Jim LaDue
Video: “Storms of 2005” April 10 Mike Umscheid
Video: “Storms of 2005” April 21 Shane Adams/Mickey Ptak
Video: “Storms of 2005” June 4 Mike Peregrine
Video: “Storms of 2005” June 5 Greg Stumpf
Video: “Storms of 2005” June 12 Jason Pollite