• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

'new' to stormtrack...hello everyone!

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Hello,

Wasnt sure if this is the right section of the forum to post this, but saw a few others had so I went along with it.

My name is Michael, I currently reside in the granite city of St. Cloud, MN. Ive been watching this forum for some time now...save a few months from a lost password/email address combo...But think im going to come out of lurking and be more active in posting.

Good to see quite a number of people who enjoy weather as much as I do. Looks like many quality threads on weather and of course storm chasing. I recognize a few names on here and I am looking forward to learning more, and perhaps contributing something that others may not know/understand.

I run a website, www.thewxpage.com. its been up for some years now..which I redesigned last night to give better uniformity and ease of access. its sorta buggy in firefox, but IE handles very nicely - although there are some aspects that will be redesigned shortly. I run it with 2 of my chase partners Scott Kraushaar and Andrew Tiemann, all 3 of us were meteorology majors at one point and then decided to pursue other career paths even after 2-3 semesters of met. courses under our belts.

Our love for the weather hasn't changed, as we still all try to take some meteorology classes when we can as our schedules allow (just to learn as much as we can and hold the sanity of taking everyday boring courses..you know the ones I mean)

I have most of my personal photos at http://michael.thewxpage.com/photos.html and my weather related are in the photos section of my main site.

In closing, I know stormtrack is well rounded and respected community and I look forward to being more of a part of it.
 
You run that page? Cool. Its got LOTS of good information, especially info. about those dang skew-t charts. Thank you for the comment on my thread. I hope i wasnt coming across as just wanting attention.
 
I be new to the forum as well. I once roped an F5, ate it for lunch, and crapped out a hurricane.
 
You run that page? Cool. Its got LOTS of good information, especially info. about those dang skew-t charts. Thank you for the comment on my thread. I hope i wasnt coming across as just wanting attention.

No, not at all. I enjoy teaching other people about weather related things. I just hope it is detailed enough for you and easy to understand...I tried to make things as nicely as I could and not all abbreviations.
 
Bill Brasky! ... from what I've heard, you got so bored with the weather one time that you went out and made your own Cat 5 hurricane from scratch ... and then later people started calling it Katrina. Here's to Billll Brasky - - - welcome!

And a big welcome to Michael and our other ST newcomers as well. Nice to have you -
 
Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Brasky takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Brasky yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em!'
 
I'm sure you fellas heard about the time he taught his son how to drive ... he did it by entering him in the Indy 500. The kid wrecked and died. Brasky said it would've happened sometime.

He's a real son of a gun ...
 
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