Sometimes storm chasing is more about travel than storm chasing. Though May 18 — after the extremely frustrating traffic jams of our tornado chase May 17 – did offer chasing. Alethea Kontis, Jason Persoff and I targeted north-central Kansas. So did hundreds of other storm chasers. And as one storm popped up after another, we …
Hey! In case you haven’t noticed, Alethea Kontis and I are on the road in Tornado Alley. We’ve been chasing storms and seeing fascinating sights along the way. I already have a ton of content to post, but since we are driving CONSTANTLY, there’s not a lot of time to process it – though …
May 17 offered a wild storm chase as Alethea and I met up with Jason Persoff and targeted southeast Nebraska. We sort of hoped that the Storm Prediction Center’s bull’s-eye centered in the northeast part of the state would pull more chasers that way, but instead, we ended up mired in the worst storm …
May 16 was our first real chase of the 2026 season, and it brought us from Kansas to Colorado and back again. Our hopes for a splendid isolated supercell weren’t realized, but we bounced between cells in eastern Colorado, eventually getting on the south side of an irregular line of storms. The storm there …
A sunny, windy day on Cocoa Beach provided a beautiful backdrop for the second day of the Air Dot Show on Sunday, April 12. That is, an air show, headlined by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels. Huge crowds showed up on the barrier island, concentrated in the main show area in Cocoa Beach. I was …
I’ve just come back from a dream bucket-list trip to Iceland. Of course, the problem with any “bucket list” item is that you’re supposed to check it off. It’s done. It’s over. But I would love to go back to the dreamy skies and dramatic landscapes, which my husband and I experienced in all of …
