Well, I'm sitting on the northwest corner of the new WW 903, not because I'm chasing, but because the parallelogram intersects the city of Bloomington. I'm not chasing and don't intend to. Since my application to INCHASE was rejected years ago, I never recieved proper training on how to chase through heavily-forested hill country on narrow, winding roads. Add low-topped storms moving fifty knots or more, and I'm content to watch the sky from here in the coffee shop.
There are some interesting developments, however. In only the last twenty minutes, skies have gone from overcast to mostly cloudy, and the low grunge has cleared to reveal more impressive, thick cu riding the low level jet. Looking at the charts it seems the warm front is moving north at a fair clip. A nearby flag has changed from an east to southeast to more southerly indication over ninety minutes, and I assume the sfc low is approaching or has arrived here in Monroe County.
Wow. As I'm typing this, the sun is emerging for the first time in days!
If this trend continues, areas east and northeast of a Bloomington to Indianapolis line could see some insolation and the potential for some of these small storms to strengthen and rotate. That's no longer the case here as our low-level turning is gone.
Good luck to the forest chasers!
Amos
