Overview/About Me

Thanks for stopping by my blog dedicated to chasing severe weather. On here you will find my forecasts, chase accounts, and recaps. Also we will have a live stream during our chases which can be accessed from this link: Live Chase Cam As for myself, I am 31 years old and have lived in Colorado most of my life with a few pit stops in Orlando, FL and Los Angeles, CA. I am based out of Englewood near DU and Washington Park. I work in television for the Versus network in the Comcast Media Center in Littleton where I help coordinate and run a lot of their live events including the NHL, IRL, WEC, PBR, and NCAA football and basketball. Personally, I've been a weather enthusiast since the day I saw my first tornado back in 1990 when I was a wee lad. I've really only gotten serious about studying severe weather in the past 3 years or so. I am constantly trying to improve my forecasting and understanding of weather every day. The "science gene" skipped me big time so I also love the challenge understanding and predicting weather presents. I can be contacted through email at: scottahammel@yahoo.com Again, thanks for taking a look at my blog and comments are always welcome... Scott

10/01 Squalled & 10/05 Possibilities..

Filed Under (Forecast & Outlook) by Scott Hammel on 01-10-2009

Well, today didn’t amount to much in the way of tornadoes and after a hectic night at work of NHL games, a brief glance at the reports doesn’t show anything too substantial.  Kind of disappointing because I thought this was going to set up for a pretty nice episode of severe weather.  Timing is everything and we didn’t get the right ingredients to mix at the right time thus only yielding a squall line, hail and wind.

10/05 is starting to look like a possible chase day.  Plus, it’s on a Monday so I could make a run on it as I have the day off.  I admit to looking at Mondays models for literally 2 minutes so I haven’t really done any forecasting on it yet, BUT western Kansas looks like a very preliminary target to me.  We’ll see as the weekend gets closer and I get a chance to sit down and have a serious look at the models.  I’m super desperate to get out at least one more time before winter is here for good!  Wish cast ahoy!

***10/03 UDATE*** Things for Monday are starting to look like a no-go for me.  Models are starting to get more consistent and unfortunately, they stall this system out too far south for me to make a 1 day trip.  Plus the areas with the best shear have almost no CAPE to work with.  Like Thursday, the right ingredients aren’t lining up, so we will see if anything changes over the next day or so, but currently its looking like a wash for me.

Scott

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