Charlie Linsz
Enthusiast
Hello all! My name is Charlie Linsz and I live in the upstate area of South Carolina. I'm 15 years old and have been very into severe weather forecasting and spotting for several years now. I just had my account approved by the admin so I thought I'd introduce myself.
A little about my experience with the weather:
A little about my experience with the weather:
- I use my dad's 2008 Honda Pilot to chase locally. I built a roof platform out of 2x4s and plywood so I can stand on the car for better visibility. I have an Inspeed pole-mount anemometer mounted 3 feet above the center-line of the roof for accuracy along with a handheld anemometer on a heavy-duty tripod for portability purposes. Also have a Sony video camera for obvious reasons.
- I somehow managed to accurately forecast hurricane Helen's impacts I dare say a little better than the NHC when it comes to the track of the eye and stronger winds.
- I have access to most models through sites like Pivotal weather, College of DuPage, and Tropical Tidbits along with access to radar via Radarscope tier 2.
- However, as most of you know, access to these sites and apps is useless without knowledge about how to apply and recognize things. So a bit about that. 3ish years ago I started watching Convective Chronicles (Trey) yt videos and doing my own research about how to read this and what that means etc... I got in touch with Trey via email and asked questions on anything I didn't inherently understand. He was nice enough to draw out some diagrams of Divergence, Diffluence, Convergence and Confluence because I couldn't grasp their differences. In that conversation he told me that I had a firm understanding of mostly college-level materials and said I was decent at applying it. That being said, I am fairly confident in my knowledge and understanding of severe weather concepts like upper-air maps, soundings, models, radar/satellite, mesoanalysis, etc...
