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Old School Chase Challenge #1: Where to from here?

As the cell matured, it grew bigger and the base stayed quite low. I'm quite shocked it never became tornado warned during it's entire lifecycle.

Old School Chase Challenge #1: Where to from here?

September 10, 2012 |  by

One of the cool new features we are wanting to do on a semi-regular basis on the blog is a forecasting challenge.. We are hearkening back to the old days of chasing – where no mobile internet was possible and the only forecasting you did was during the morning before you left the house. All you get in this challenge is a radar image from the morning, upper air and surface charts, and one lonely satellite image. Old schoolers sometimes could get mid-afternoon updates via the weather radio or a friendly phone call — but you had to be heading the right way in the morning to begin with. Thus, we begin our first old school chase challenge…

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