So yeah, this is happening! The first song I ever performed live was “Keep on Rocking Me” with lifetime friend David when we were what, 16? This round, Jo Bird and her Viola will have my back. Get your tickets you jokers and smokers and midnight tokers. before they’re gone… on a big ol’ Jet Airliner. Buy …
Steve Miller Band & Pecos Hank @ Revention Music Center Houston TX Read More »
Last week I was fortunate to witness the most incredible tornado I’ve ever seen in person, and on the internet. A rapidly swirling dome sky overhead dropped a dramatic thin tornado with a head and tail. Standing next to tornadoes make you feel tiny enough, but when the tornado and mesocyclone mimicked an ova being fertilized, …
“Bead lightning” is the decaying stage of a lightning channel in which the luminosity of the channel breaks up into segments. This close cloud-to-ground strike provided an excellent example for the camera near Canadian Texas on May 22, 2016.
A power flash often occurs when a tornado strikes power lines. The arcing discharges flashing from the damaged electrical equipment often reveal a tornado is on the ground when heavy rain or darkness obscure the tornado. These power flashes deliver a burst of a blue or white illuminating hues. At farther distances dust might …
You often hear stories about storm clouds turning green before a tornado touches down. The explanation is the same type of thunderstorms responsible for the majority of violent tornadoes also may produce copious amounts of hail. These thick hail downdrafts or hail cores often have a blueish turquoise glow. Makes sense doesn’t it that an …
Why does the sky turn green before a tornado? Answer… Read More »
In Tornado Alley, lightning usually takes the back seat in the media exposure vehicle. The last 2 storm seasons delivered well below average tornado touch downs, but the lightning was off the charts. One of these lightning shows was one of the most incredible sights I’ve ever witnessed… The Coleridge-Laurel Nebraska supercell (6-17-14) produced a …
The last three years years have yielded below average tornado reports in the U.S., the average being 1260. Less than 900 tornadoes were reported in 2014 making it the lowest amount of tornadoes since we began attempting to jot them all down. Only 47 tornado related deaths occurred. Despite the low twister frequency, I was …
Tornado Season 2014 – The best, worst season ever Read More »
This was my first car. Despite looking badass it had more bondo than Kenny Rogers’s face. When I was twelve I got a job delivering the Houston Chronicle and another cleaning animal shit so by the time I was 16 had saved $3200 and this baby was mine. A week later the engine blew up …
Also known as “spider lightning” due to the way it scampers across the sky, anvil crawler lightning is some of the most dramatic and beautiful lightning displays there are. See for yourself in this epic video… When a rising thunderstorm reaches the ceiling of the troposphere it flares out horizontally into an anvil shape much …
Late one Wyoming evening I found myself at a campfire under the Devils Tower National Monument. I could overhear a few dudes bragging about how tough they were in the campsite next to mine. One was from Montana, one from Oklahoma I think and another from Texas. I overheard the guy from Oklahoma say “I …
