Hi everyone,
Well Monday is in the books -- sort of -- for the WHOHD crew on this week's storm chase. There was a lot of driving, and, well, a lot more driving. As expected, today was pretty uneventful as the atmosphere was pretty well "capped out."
I'm sure you noticed the heat and humidity crank up today...well there is even more on the way, especially when it comes to the humidity. So while it certainly felt like it could storm, the depth of the warm air was just too deep in the end to have storms. We need cold air on top of warm air to really get the fireworks going, but that just was not going to be the case in Iowa or Nebraska.
South Dakota, on the other hand, presented a chance. Definitely a long shot, but a chance at something, and we decided we'd rather chase after blue sky and see nothing, than head south to set up for tomorrow only to have storms break out and miss them.
Early in the afternoon we arrived in South Dakota and drove along I-90 all the way to Chamberlain. Much of the data I was looking at did show some decent weakening of the cap throughout central SD so there was a glimmer of hope something may fire, but nothing ever did.
The cap actually strengthened as more warm air streamed into the area, and there just wasn't anything that could trigger the storms.
We needed a little bit of a push, but the main center of the overall storm system is hanging out around the panhandle of Nebraska into CO, so just not enough oomph to get the storms popping.
Such is the life of a storm chaser. Lots of driving, lots of waiting, hopefully 30 minutes of excitement.
--Brett
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