• 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.

"Rendez-Vous in Tornado Alley" - The French series needs your help!

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Hi fellow storm chasers from overseas! I'd like to introduce you our project for the 2013 season.

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Some of you may have already seen our first season which had been shot in 2011 and broadcasted on the french Weather Channel in 2012 but also made availaible entirely online in HD. I created a thread at the time : Thread Season 1

If you haven't seen it yet, you can still watch it on Youtube. It's subtitled in English all along the way!

Watch video >

As we really much enjoyed doing that in 2011, we're back in the plains from the 10th of May until the 23rd of June (6 weeks) this year! And we of course wish to film a new season of our series. But we also want it to be waaaay better than the first one! To do so, we started a crowd funding campaign (yes, like Reed Timmer, but we had the idea before seing his ;) ). Our goal is obviously way smaller than Reed Timmer's as storm chasing in our country is not so much of a news media headline but we're thrilled to announce we reached our first goal of 3000€ in only 4 days! Now we're going for a streched goal of 4500€ to improve the quality of our modest show.

If you're interested in helping us, even a very little, you can see all the details of our project on the site Ulule (french equivalent of Kickstarter) at this adress : http://www.ulule.com/rdvta-saison2/ (If ever it shows in French, you can switch to english in the right top hand corner).

Unfortunately, due to our tight budget, a few rewards are not available to people outside of France. The shipping costs would be too expensive for the large package of an art print. But you can get DVDs and even Blu-rays if we reach the next goal!

Feel free to share on social networks if you wish. Every help will be much appreciated and we would be more than happy to share a drink with you during our time in the plains!


ON A SECOND NOTE, we'd be interested in meeting some of you to ask them a few questions in front of our cameras about the storm chasing activity and what it means to you, to the community, to science, to everything you want... Indeed, we intend to make a clever and more profound season 2... without losing the passion and action from the first one :)

Thank you very much for your attention and see you soon under the meso!

Chris, director of "Rendez-Vous in Tornado Alley".

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I am unable to contribute financially but if ever we happen to be in the same area (chances are I'd be staying in/near Colorado) I'd be more than willing to partake in an interview for this project.
 
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