Shane Adams
Yeah, it's like anything else. Believe me, I was digging the wifi camp out in Woodward; seeing things in the sky and then watching it on the computer on maps and satellites was really cool, kinda like the best of both worlds. Our online observation of the S Plains surface data showed a huge dryline push into NW OK, right over our heads.....looking away from the computer and up at the sky also told the same story; huge billowing cu fields were persisting N/NE/E/SE of us while the western and southern skies were becoming virtually clear.
It's a big help (and a deserved one as well) to be able to have technological assistance in the field once you've learned to do it from the hip. But it's always nice to have field experience to fall back on in situations where the technology just can't help.
J.R. and I had a cool conversation about this. Lots of kids coming right outta the box with the wifi and other technological wonders, robbing themselves of the much-important experiences of exposing oneself to the sky, naked and vunerable. After a few comments and shaken heads on this topic, we both then decided to step out of the hot sun and into the air-conditioned comfort of his chase ride, where we gawked over many screens of varying data :lol:
It's a big help (and a deserved one as well) to be able to have technological assistance in the field once you've learned to do it from the hip. But it's always nice to have field experience to fall back on in situations where the technology just can't help.
J.R. and I had a cool conversation about this. Lots of kids coming right outta the box with the wifi and other technological wonders, robbing themselves of the much-important experiences of exposing oneself to the sky, naked and vunerable. After a few comments and shaken heads on this topic, we both then decided to step out of the hot sun and into the air-conditioned comfort of his chase ride, where we gawked over many screens of varying data :lol: