Nobel Prize of Chasing

[Jason Bolt]

In relation to the other thread about the best chaser of the decade:

If an award was being given out today for the chaser who has given the most back to the chasing community by way of contributing, teaching, and otherwise encouraging newer chasers over the last decade who would you nominate?

 

[Adam Adkins]

Mike Hollingshead.

This is only part of why but I found this to be extremely helpful.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/storminfo.htm

 

[Winston Wells]

That's easy - Tim Vasquez.

 

[Wes Carter]

That's easy - Tim Vasquez.

I'd have to agree on that one. He's written books, tutorials, magazine articles, and various other things to help people who are serious about learning to become a chaser. Not to mention this site...

 

[Robert Dewey]

Yeah, I'd same Tim Vasquez as well.

 

[Sean Ramsey]

I nominate the beer chaser. It has contributed to hangovers, taught many lessons about consuming more than you should, and always encourages new chasers due to its taste.

 

[MatthewCarman]

I would say Tim Vasquez just because he is so nice and helpful and deals with a lot of drama here at storm track and still keeps his cool every time.

 

[Patrick Martin]

I nominate Discovery Channel! It's amazing their ability to have a person watch one episode of Storm Chasers, and they are suddenly an expert on weather, storms, photography, ready to trick out their ride with weather stations, laptop mounts, and join the masses.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Thanks all for the vote of confidence, but on the downside I do pay the mortgage + bills with those books and articles, so there's some business interests that taint things. I also have been stuck behind a desk every spring running the Chase Hotline the past 10 years, so I don't have much to show lately for pics. I appreciate the regard of my reputation, all said, but I think when you get down to it there are some serious contenders here on the board in terms of passion, time/money invested, magnanimity, mentoring, and (I'll concede) even expertise.

How about David Hoadley? I recall he attended my Forecast School class in Denver in 2004 (and even asked questions) -- even with his legendary experience and at age 65, he felt that the entire conference was an wide-open opportunity to learn.

Tim

 

[Jeff Passner]

Tim, well said.... There are no awards in chasing. There are no nobel prizes here, there are just people who like chasing. Man, when did we ever start giving out awards in this thing? I don't know Dave Hoadley that well but he'd probably decline the nomination. as for teaching new chasers --- how about every college educator who teaches synoptic and dynamics... Man, it's pretty simple -- most chasers are meteorologists.... They learn in class and then learn by chasing. There are no awards in chasing. No trophies... Man, Al Gore got one of these stupids awards and he's a fraud.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Tim, well said.... There are no awards in chasing. There are no nobel prizes here, there are just people who like chasing. Man, when did we ever start giving out awards in this thing? I don't know Dave Hoadley that well but he'd probably decline the nomination. as for teaching new chasers --- how about every college educator who teaches synoptic and dynamics... Man, it's pretty simple -- most chasers are meteorologists.... They learn in class and then learn by chasing. There are no awards in chasing. No trophies... Man, Al Gore got one of these stupids awards and he's a fraud.

http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/mw-award.htm

http://www.flame.org/~cdoswell/chasesums/Hoadley.html

fwiw

Just like the other threads, it's not like some awards thing has to be that big of a deal("evil") anyway.

 

[Matt Gingery]

LOL! Was that an award in David's hand?

 

[Wes Carter]

Man, it's pretty simple -- most chasers are meteorologists.... They learn in class and then learn by chasing.

I don't buy that. Most of the chasers I know aren't meteorologists. I know that's anecdotal evidence at best but most chasers I have met are not meteorologists nor atmos grads. That might have been the case in the 1990's, but today I think most people are in it for fun and to document the storm.

 

[Jayson Prentice]

Man, it's pretty simple -- most chasers are meteorologists.... They learn in class and then learn by chasing.

I have to agree with Wes too... No way are most chasers meteorologists! Just throwing a number out there, but I'm imagining that of all 3,400 members here on ST that less than 500 are actual meteorologists. You look at a lot of the chasers that are out there getting the 'best video' and very few of them are actual meteorologists. And that is definitely not saying that they don't know what is going on, there are definitely some chasers that I know that can forecast better than some meteorologists.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Bill Brasky hands down. I hear he once carried 10 chaser vehicles out of a field they were stuck in by hand and all while gorilla sized hail was coming down!

Thank god we can still post in weather and chasing threads and not have to be completely serious about the topic at hand, and post the occasional humorous angle.