Just a quick note to say hey — and Kidstorm is alive and well. It remains one of the most frequently visited parts of my website, and I refresh it periodically. I just went through it and updated dead links (it’s REALLY hard to keep up, so let me know if you find one that …
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Post updated in August 2026. Let me be absolutely clear: I trashed the original post I wrote here in 2023 and rewrote it in 2026. Because a lot has changed since AI seemed like just a curiosity. Which seems like yesterday. And this post will immediately be out of date given the way we’re …
Today was the second day in a row I got to enjoy a shelf cloud and strong storm (today’s was severe) as it swept through the Space Coast. Even better, we got a lot of rain. My parched plants, after several rainless, extremely hot days, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief – except for …
I haven’t done much in the way of storm chasing this summer, at least not yet. I’ve caught shelf clouds moving through our neighborhood. One even approached as I caught the bat flight out of our neighborhood bat box, which has become two boxes. The new one is supposed to lure the bats out …
We knew May 31 was likely to be the last day of our 2026 storm chase in Tornado Alley. We also knew it was likely to be a late show in southeast Kansas, perhaps at sunset or later. So after doing our laundry in Kearney, Nebraska, we dropped south and stopped at the World’s …
May 30 was another day of chasing scraps — and being in the vicinity of a tornado but not actually seeing it. Alethea and I chased with Jason, heading into Nebraska and following one storm after another. We got separated, and Alethea and I had the pleasure of being gassed by a farmer near Imperial who, …
