All caught up!!  I am now up-to-date on getting all my storm photography albums posted to the site.  Just browse through the Collections portions of UTM to see the latest albums, mainly 2008 Chases.  Here are the new Lightroom-created albums added since the last UTM update:

June 23  (chase trip Day 6)
June 24  (chase trip Day […]

(Times in CDT).  I had been thinking for a couple days about chasing Tuesday, August 12th on my day off since it appeared to be reasonably close to home.  A strong upper jet was forecast to come across the central Rockies and adjacent high plains — around 60 to 70 knots around 250mb.  So it […]

A little late in getting the August image of the month up, but here it is! 

Summer thunderstorm across a Northwest Kansas cornfield.Saturated soft light certainly embodied this scene as a summer thunderstorm developed north of Colby, KS with a green cornfield and distant farmstead completing the scene. The precipitation shaft revealed wonderful contrast with amazing […]

I started this chase at 1:30 am.  Yes.  Since my sleeping schedule wasmessed up, I was pretty much up for good by that time.  With a fullmoon out, I decided to do some moonlit landscape photos at MonumentRocks north of Scott City.  By the time I got there around 4am, though,the moon was getting very […]

I will be chasing today, Thursday, July 17th.  It is my two days off between midnight and day shifts which start Saturday.  Obviously, with it being summer, the wind shear setup is less than ideal for long-lived supercell thunderstorms, but the thing today has going for it is a lot of moisture.  As I type, […]