The Weather Channel has been engaged in a long festival of mourning over the deaths of three storm-chasers, killed by a recent tornado in Oklahoma. Understandable, those guys all knew each other.
But what got my attention was a whine by one of their own storm-chasers that there were too many other people out chasing storms. He pretty much said that there were so many clowns out chasing storms that there were traffic jams near bad storms.
So the very people who popularized storm-chasing are having second thoughts? That might have been a bit persuasive, if the next segment hadn't been their anchor showing video that had been sent in by listeners, including video sent in by (wait for it) amateur storm-chasers of the very tornado that killed the three professional storm-chasers.
"Don't go chasing storms, but if you do, send us your video"... that's going to be really effective.
Morons.
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What the hell does a storm-chaser do, anyway? Do they have a bunch of instruments loaded onto those SUVs they drive around, to record air pressure or wind speed near the tornado? What does this do that ordinary weather sensor stations don't or can't? In the end, all we see is some dashboard video of a twister column...
The Twistex guys were meteorologists and their goal was to study the formation, life cycle and decay of tornadoes and what makes some of them killers. They had on several occasions found out some facts that help in forecasting them. That and the entire team were SAR/EMT trained and equipped as they would often end up in the the places devastated by storms.
The difference was some were studying them and many of the chasers are in it for the thrill. The latter stand and gawk and do little to help those hurt
other than create traffic and other unhelpful situations.
Eck!
The serious pros have special instrument packages that they try and place ahead of the tornadoes.
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