I would like to second what Laura and Chris have said. The presentations were excellent and I learned a lot that I believe will help make me a better chaser. Thanks to Roger and Tim for all your hard work to make the convention happen!
BTW, for you snow chasers out there, you should have been at the convention! Pretty much no matter what dirction you came into Denver from, you would have seen some intense snow and wind if you drove in on Friday. In the mountains west of Denver, snow accumulations were as high as 18 inches around the Eisenhower Tunnel, and winds gusted to 100 mph in some areas. Roger managed to get away from convention preparations long enough to catch some video of the intense snow and wind in Berthoud Pass, which appeared Friday night on channel 7 in Denver. And in the plains, an intense band of snow squalls set up from Ft. Collins SE through Limon. This band was accompanied by 40-60 mph winds and, in some areas, thunder and lightning. When I came through it I encountered visibility down to about 200 feet near Limon, but others who came through later encountered visibilities down to zero.
It snowed again today in the mountains, which made for excellent skiing. After a day of skiing at Monarch, I got the following pictures of convective snowshowers near Salida:
http://www.johnefarley.com/Salida1.jpg - looking south from Salida, around 5 p.m.
http://www.johnefarley.com/Salida2.jpg - same snowshower, about 10 minutes later, with backsheared and even slightly knuckled anvil
A great convention and interesting weather on the same trip!
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