Skip Talbot
EF5
Sunday busted spectacularly across the moderate risk region. Brad Goddard, Jennifer Brindley Ubl and I were just too exhausted to commit to the warm front draped across central MN after putting in 3,000 miles on our four day plains trip and having to be back at work on Monday morning. We decided instead to play storms coming off the cold front in south central MN/north central IA. We knew we were giving up any shot at a tornado given that the surface low had elongated and surface winds were badly veered except on the warm front. We had steak dinner in Albert Lea in the afternoon to celebrate our chase from the previous day and then mozied a few miles west on over to a line of cells racing up to us from the southeast. Nothing severe, and they were moving way too fast to pursue, but I shot some timelapse of photogenic, colorful little cells and pretty skies and thought I'd share it here.
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The funny thing about Sunday's bust was that it was about as enjoyable as Saturday's big tornado chase. Although there were no tornadoes for us on Sunday, we actually got to stand back, relax, and watch the storms for an extended period of time, instead of racing all over the place in a sleep deprived state like frantic zombies as we were on Saturday. The storms were actually prettier than Saturday's as well, despite being subsevere.
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The funny thing about Sunday's bust was that it was about as enjoyable as Saturday's big tornado chase. Although there were no tornadoes for us on Sunday, we actually got to stand back, relax, and watch the storms for an extended period of time, instead of racing all over the place in a sleep deprived state like frantic zombies as we were on Saturday. The storms were actually prettier than Saturday's as well, despite being subsevere.
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