Monday, June 15, 2009

A Massive Hail Roar!


June 12th Storm Chase
Silver Lining Tours 

We were hoping for some Palmer magic which is common this time of year especially with the flow across Colorado.  The nice thing about chasing the Palmer is being able to sleep in a making your way out there in plenty of time for initiation when it is a back yard chase.  
On this day we didn't see anything remarkable because dew points were low by about five degrees for any lowering of cloud bases...but these storms would soon turn in to classic hailers in Colorado.  We core punched this storm three times and was fun as hell each time.  I was treated to a massive HAIL ROAR that I had never been witness to before.  Its is quite amazing when you can hear trillion of hail stone 30000ft above you colliding in to one other.  It can be awe striking and a little eerie in the same moment.   All in all today was a fun chase, but nothing extremely exciting.

Suaave

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