That’s it for another year!
One of the best weeks of stormchasing since I started doing this hobby over 10 years ago. Terrific company, spectacular storms, and 4200 miles driven across 5 states.
I’ve pulled a few of my favorite meteorological momments of the week together that best encapsulate the week.
After 6 days of quite intense and spectacular stormchasing Friday and Saturday were much less promising in terms of storm potential.
The forecasts showed some potential for storms in New Mexico but unfortunately not early or interesting enough to put us out of position for our last chase on Saturday, where there was potential for severe storms and tornados in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Friday became a sightseeing day with a stop in Roswell, but no aliens were spotted.
With the only storm activity too far to our West we headed back to Amarillo for the night in the hopes of catching some final storms before the long drive back to Denver.
Unfortunately overnight the forecasts had shifted and the potential for severe storms and Tornados had moved further East and the time storms would get interesting was going to be after dark.
That meant our final day was going to be some sightseeing and maybe some storms off I25 as we made our way to Denver.
We headed to Mount Capulin Volcano National Monument an almost perfect example of a Cinder Cone Volcano. I last visited in 2013 and at the time the landscape was very arid and in drought. As we arrived at the Volcano the landscape was transformed after a rainy spring the vegetation had come alive transforming the landscape from.what I remembered from my last visit.
Although it was disappointing to have no storms to chase, the views from the top of the volcano were well worth it.
After exploring the volcano we headed West to catch some final storms forming over the Rockies.
