Reed Timmer in Argentina Storm Chasing

[Jason Caster]

Posting from free wifi at a gas station in Argentina. Had a great day on the 5th. Here's a time-lapse video and still of an incredible supercell near Rio Cuarto. I'll post more when I get time to put it all together. Nice roads, food, people, and storms. A great break from winter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDpGTFLt-VY

That was one piece I was very curious about Argentina, the road network. It sounds like it is somewhat decent.

 

[Larry J. Kosch]

Reed in Buenos Aires, Argentina 30/12/09 Highlight

Found an interesting YouTube clip of Reed Timmer giving a presentation in Buenos Aires on 12/30/09. In Argentina they list the date backwards!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGS0WgQiDi4&feature=related

Was interesting to watch him talk with the locals, then he gets "chased" by camera crews as he walks to the presentation room. Really didn't catch as to what his plans for 2010 was, but I saw the pictures of what revisions he may be doing for his "red shoe" Dominator!!

 

[Ernani Nascimento]

If anyone is seriously thinking about chasing severe weather in South America for the 2010/2011 season, please let me know. I live and work in extreme southern Brazil, where I teach meteorology. From 1999 to 2002 I chased storms in the Southern Plains of the US, while persuing my PhD degree at SoM/OU. Here in southern Brazil I performed a few chasings too. We have a research program down here related to severe weather forecasting for subtropical South America, including high resolution modeling and the work on a prototype for a kind of "sticknet" network for intercepting severe storms in southern Brazil in the next couple of years. We have access to data that could certainly give some support for chasing activities (including nowcasting). Mainly, we wish to have a serious research on the south american severe weather environment, including case-to-case documentation, for which the presence of *experienced* chasers is very much welcomed. For anyone here planning to attend the 2010 SLS Conference, I will be presenting results of our research and its applications for forecasting severe weather in our southern continent.

 

[Ernani Nascimento]

This is also an interesting finding (by Harold Brooks), using NCAR/NCEP Reanalysis data.

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3359&stc=1&d=1263182086

 

[Joel Taylor]

Aaron Ruppert and I were down there for about half of December. Great place and exciting trip! Road network east of a Cordoba to Santa Rosa line is very similar to northwest Texas (maybe a little more spaced out). West of that line think Cherry County. Terrain is flat, people are friendly, speed limits are pretty much non-existant, so it makes for a fun chase. Also, you have absolutely no worries with chaser convergence.

The four or five days that were chase days for us our T/Td spreads were a little high and it really seems like you need a system coming across the Andes to get the low level flow and LLJ going. A couple of days storms would go up on the mountains and sit there never making an attempt to move out into the plains.

Would definately recommend that if you've ever got the time and money, take a shot. Will make for a great experience.