Fred Gossage
EF1
Hey Guys,
Seeing Tim have to cancel his basic level Chase Hotline service last year saddened me, even though I do little chasing (mainly an in-the-office guy with severe weather). After thinking about it through the winter, I've decided to see if there may be any interest in a rather low-priced chase consultation plan.
The idea would go like this... Any member signing up for the service would get access to daily updated forecast information for the Day 1 time frame for helping decide on an initial target, all the way out to two week long-range/teleconnection guidance to try to nail down active periods for an early head's up on planning chase trips. This would be done via a blog with running commentary and maps and also a daily updated video discussion that will break down all the maps and such. The user would also have access to a "tool box" page that would contain links to a WIDE variety of weather data on the internet. It wouldn't be anything that can't already be found, for the most part, but it would be a page with comprehensive links for radar, satellite, surface charts, upper air charts, soundings and hodographs, profilers, a multitude of model pages (including privately-run but publically available high resolution WRF runs across the country), model ensemble data, text products, etc. This would also include a Storm Watcher AllisonHouse account (This includes ALL AllisonHouse placefile feeds for Gibson Ridge/StormLab but does NOT include a Level 3 or Level 2 LDM radar feed) for the months of March through June. The pricing for this would be a one-time fee of $140 for the entire season, through the end of June; and only $10 extra to extend the service through the end of July. This is less than $2.00/day to have access to very detailed forecast thoughts, a comprehensive forecaster toolbox, and a data feed for add-on data for your on-board radar programs. If you choose not to have the AllisonHouse subscription, the pricing is $100 for March through the end of June, with a $10 extra to extend the service through the end of July.
For those of you that don't know me or my forecasting abilities well enough to be able to make a decision on choosing to take advantage of this service or not, you may contact the following people:
WAFF Huntsville Chief Meteorologist Brad Travis
WBRC Birmingham Chief Meteorologist James-Paul Dice
WBRC Birmingham Meteorologist Jason Kelley
The links above are to their TV station bio pages where you will find their email addresses.
I am needing at least 15-20 people interested in a service like this before it's worth my time enough to get it off the ground. I'm not trying to make a killing off this by any stretch of the imagination, but I do need to be able to cover software, data service feed, etc., costs in order to provide the service. My goal here is to offer an affordable resource to chasers and others in the weather hobbyist community, since the previous one was discontinued. Please do not be misled into thinking that this is a nowcasting service. This is a forecasting consultation service that will give you information to help plan your chase trips from up to and past two weeks out, down to giving you info to help pick your target the morning of the big day.
If you think you may be interested in such a service, please respond back to this post as soon as reasonably possible, or email me using the address below:
I would like to have this service up and running by March 10th. I look forward to hearing from you guys!
Seeing Tim have to cancel his basic level Chase Hotline service last year saddened me, even though I do little chasing (mainly an in-the-office guy with severe weather). After thinking about it through the winter, I've decided to see if there may be any interest in a rather low-priced chase consultation plan.
The idea would go like this... Any member signing up for the service would get access to daily updated forecast information for the Day 1 time frame for helping decide on an initial target, all the way out to two week long-range/teleconnection guidance to try to nail down active periods for an early head's up on planning chase trips. This would be done via a blog with running commentary and maps and also a daily updated video discussion that will break down all the maps and such. The user would also have access to a "tool box" page that would contain links to a WIDE variety of weather data on the internet. It wouldn't be anything that can't already be found, for the most part, but it would be a page with comprehensive links for radar, satellite, surface charts, upper air charts, soundings and hodographs, profilers, a multitude of model pages (including privately-run but publically available high resolution WRF runs across the country), model ensemble data, text products, etc. This would also include a Storm Watcher AllisonHouse account (This includes ALL AllisonHouse placefile feeds for Gibson Ridge/StormLab but does NOT include a Level 3 or Level 2 LDM radar feed) for the months of March through June. The pricing for this would be a one-time fee of $140 for the entire season, through the end of June; and only $10 extra to extend the service through the end of July. This is less than $2.00/day to have access to very detailed forecast thoughts, a comprehensive forecaster toolbox, and a data feed for add-on data for your on-board radar programs. If you choose not to have the AllisonHouse subscription, the pricing is $100 for March through the end of June, with a $10 extra to extend the service through the end of July.
For those of you that don't know me or my forecasting abilities well enough to be able to make a decision on choosing to take advantage of this service or not, you may contact the following people:
WAFF Huntsville Chief Meteorologist Brad Travis
WBRC Birmingham Chief Meteorologist James-Paul Dice
WBRC Birmingham Meteorologist Jason Kelley
The links above are to their TV station bio pages where you will find their email addresses.
I am needing at least 15-20 people interested in a service like this before it's worth my time enough to get it off the ground. I'm not trying to make a killing off this by any stretch of the imagination, but I do need to be able to cover software, data service feed, etc., costs in order to provide the service. My goal here is to offer an affordable resource to chasers and others in the weather hobbyist community, since the previous one was discontinued. Please do not be misled into thinking that this is a nowcasting service. This is a forecasting consultation service that will give you information to help plan your chase trips from up to and past two weeks out, down to giving you info to help pick your target the morning of the big day.
If you think you may be interested in such a service, please respond back to this post as soon as reasonably possible, or email me using the address below:

I would like to have this service up and running by March 10th. I look forward to hearing from you guys!