Storm season is on hold for awhile

Vortex 2 is parked in Hays, KS doing laundry. Discovery Channel Storm Chasers teams have all gone home. I am back at work and doing chores around the house and flying my helicopters for fun. This friday is the 1 year anniversary of the Windsor, CO tornado and things could not be more quiet.

While not a 'death ridge', this pattern of zonal flow far up into Canada will kill things off well into June. We may get a few upslope days along the front range but that will be it. I was to do some helicopter video for DC this week but that looks unlikely until some sort of severe weather gets the teams back out into the plains.

I feel very lucky to have chased April and already gotten a respectible 11 tornadoes including our most intense close encounter on April 26th in Roger Mills county, OK.

So for now storm season is on hold until June rolls around and/or a western trough appears.