a list of learning resources

[Evan Hawkins]

Hey guys, I know there's already a forum on this but most of the comments are from 2022 or older, would you guys be open to sending newer links to stuff that can teach me more on forecasting and chasing

 

[Todd Lemery]

If the links are still working, I’m sure the information is still very relevant. There hasn’t been a huge spike in new storm knowledge the last few years.

 

[Dan Robinson]

There are many, but here are a few to start:

Haby Hints (good for learning general meteorology terms and concepts)

WEATHER FORECASTING / WEATHER EDUCATION ESSAYS

Weather forecasting and weather education essays

www.theweatherprediction.com

Gabe Garfield's Youtube channel has a lot of chase-related meteorology instruction:

Storm Chaser Gabe Garfield

Meteorologist & storm chaser | Helping new chasers find tornadoes | Videos about tornadoes, forecasting, and applied science | http://gabegarfield.com/tornadocourse | [email protected] For more info, see @WxGabe on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

www.youtube.com

Skip Talbot's channel has come good videos on storm feature identification and chase safety:

Storm and Tornado Educational

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www.youtube.com

Tim Vasquez' Storm Chasing Handbook is a good starter book:

Storm Chasing Handbook: Vasquez, Tim: 9780970684035: Amazon.com: Books

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Also, just browsing through threads here on Stormtrack like 'Introductory weather & chasing' and 'Advanced weather & chasing' will yield some good info on pretty much any chase-related subject.

 

[Harlan U]

Hey guys, I know there's already a forum on this but most of the comments are from 2022 or older, would you guys be open to sending newer links to stuff that can teach me more on forecasting and chasing

I strongly recommend understanding the basics of weather (pressure, fronts/systems, jet stream, lapse rates, etc) before diving into the more specialized convective forecasting stuff. A great collection of weather information can be found at the following link (compiled by someone at the NWS): https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/ZHU_Training_Page.html

I'd also get familiar with tornado climatology for your local area. There's some good information on the following site but it is a bit outdated: ustornadoes.com

Also, as mentioned before, see some of the past posts on this forum regarding chasing information. There are already many good resources on this site.

The NWS Spotter Field Guide is also a great source of info, but Skip Talbot's videos (as mentioned above) are perhaps a bit better at explaining its core concepts: https://www.weather.gov/media/bis/Weather_Spotter_Field_Guide.pdf

Researcher Cameron Nixon's site has some good info on several chasing-related topics: Storm Interactions

The Convective Chronicles YouTube channel has some great resources (including a series on skew-t interpretation), and I would highly recommend watching some of his meteorological breakdown videos of past events.

There's also a series of videos on WSR-88 radar products that were put out by NOAA many years ago. They contain some amazing information, and would help you get a much greater understanding of how to use and interpret the more important radar products:

There hasn’t been a huge spike in new storm knowledge the last few years.

There has been some recent activity in the field of tornadogenesis research that might be of interest to chasers, namely Cameron Nixon's recent work on storm interactions:

Paul Markowski has recently been developing a new hypothesis for tornadogenesis, which I think could have some promise. The attached video is very technical but might be interesting to those in the chasing world.

 

[Evan Hawkins]

thank the ones who replied so far, I just figured I'd ask since again, the previous posts are 2022 or older

 

[Dan Robinson]

The principles of storm structure and meteorology (thankfully) don’t change much, so those older links should still have a lot of useful info.