📸 A Week of Low-Key Storm Risks

I didn't hear no bell. 🤕⛈️

This will go down as one of the weirdest seasons for me of all time when it comes to storm chasing. While I have primarily wrapped up my Spring season, I’ll eventually get back out there for the summer season, which I consider July and August. 

We have actually ended up going below average on the tornado count this year as we enter late June. We’re still circling around average, and our hail reports count has trended towards average almost the entire year. We had an April – June that was almost completely full of severe weather chances and storm chase opportunities but only a couple big tornado risk days. 

I suspect the cause was consistent but low-amplitude flow over the Plains, which never pushed top-quality moisture far south and never really created surface cyclones to increase the low-level winds enough. The instability was there all Spring, I chased so many days with extreme instability values, but those days often also featured very modest low-level wind shear. With the moisture …