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Storm Laboratory or Forecasting Handbook and Stormchasers Handbook?

The Storm Chasing Handbook will hopefully get updated in November.... but those dates tend to not be reliable.

BTW if you ordered over the weekend we'll be getting to it tomorrow (Tuesday); slight delay.

Tim
 
Hello,

About Storm Laboratory: Evan Bookbinder has StormLab - software for Nexrad data. Now I can offer only Meteos 1.1 - a software for running of WRF model under Windows. Before years it was for MM5 model.

Best regards,

Angel
 
Angel was clarifying the naming of his software. It's not StormLab, since Evan's radar software is called that.
 
I would like to get a copy of Tims updated version of the Storm Chasing Handbook once it has been completed. Please let me/us know when its done and also where we can order it. Thanks!
 
It's going to be at least 1 to 2 months before that's available. I would peg the release at either November 30 (before the holiday rush) or January 30 (before the conventions). If it doesn't get released by then, there will be a good reason.

Tim
 
I ordered the Forecasting Lab and have played around with it a bit. In fact, I've found it rather addictive. With the only hourly changes in the atmospheric models that I'm finding being in the surface maps, the radar, and the satellite (upper atmosphere maps and soundings all seem frozen at 12 Z), it forces me to extrapolate a lot, and to think ahead to what atmospheric conditions might be like hours in the future. This software could use some refinement, but as it stands, it's already helping me improve my forecasting skills and gain confidence in the skills I've already got.

This is not for beginners. Read the books first. But once you've read them, this can be a great adjunct to your learning, particularly during the off season. Speaking personally, the FL will be a fun and profitable preoccupation during the winter months.
 
I'm hoping to get that for Christmas now. I've been reading the forecasting book, but I think I will have to read it 5 times before I understand it fully! I was wondering if you could post a video of Forecast Laboratory, just so I (and anyone else who is interested) can see what it is like?
 
FL may not be what you're thinking, Derek. It's not anything you'd actually use on a chase day. It's a practice tool--a game of sorts--to help you sharpen your forecasting skills for the real thing.
 
Right, I figured it wasn't GRlevel3 or anything, but it would still be cool to see how it works, since I don't fully understand and all. Hope that clears it up, lol.
 
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