Wow. Talk about WAY wrong. I'd say most spotters have been spotting for MUCH longer than most chasers.
Maybe, and ten years spotting might garner you the same experience as two years chasing. What's your point?
Twister did NOT bring a big jump in the Skywarn logs. I'd say it did affect the chaser population though...
I used money from my very first tornado video (yep, I sold it) to pay for the movies the
third time I went to see Twister...that's not really important to the point, it's just an interesting fact. So basically, you mean to say that all chasers after 1996 suck. I've got the numbers that can prove you wrong, and that's just me. I can get a list of names who started post-Twister who can hold their own against any storm or Rob Dale internet assault situation. Other than to slam post-Twister chasers in general, I really don't understand what that comment was about.
You spend your entire thread trying to break stereotypes and bring together two groups, and then end it with a completely unnecessary and clearly inaccurate SLAM on an entire group based on a very small percentage of net controllers...
Easy grasshopper...couple 'o things.
What I said isn't inaccurate. A spotter in a good year might get 3-4 true severe weather days a year, as opposed to a chaser who will get 10-15 or more, depending on how much he/she chases. Of course those numbers can be fudged one way or another, but you and everyone else reading this knows what I mean...and that I'm right. It's not a slam, it's a fact. It's like saying Gary England isn't light years ahead of you in experience in front of the camera. Experience is gold, and it reigns, in this field as well as any. And when the net controllers themselves are the ones coining phrases like "SLC" to make fun of crap reports (scary-looking cloud) that tells me that even they are aware of the true lack of knowledge or experience in many members of their own rank. Oh and let's not forget, spotters are trained to report *what they are seeing* period. Put the average spotter next to the average chaser and see who can predict the next move of the storm, not just understand what they are seeing in current time (ya like the HAM reference there?) I'm not slamming spotters or you here...I'm merely stating how significant EXPERIENCE is. Seems it's kinda lost on some people.
Secondly, like I told you across town on WX-CHASE last week, it's good to ruffle feathers and shake it up a bit...keep the idea fresh in the many minds of the storm world. I'm not a HAM, and I don't wanna be. I'm out there to chase and document. But when I see these guys like the tool in Graham County, KS making comments like he did last year after he had one bad day with chasers (May 22), it makes me want to at least try to bridge the gap. I had more negative responses from the spotter side of the issue than positive, which tells me there are more than a few on that side of the fence who like things the way they are.
Don't try and call me out because I stated the obvious. Go after the ones who've criticized this effort or otherwise debunked it.
I promise I won't report how heavy its raining or how dark the clouds are.
