• 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.

Stormy Skies 2012-13: Wild Weather for All Seasons video

John Farley

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I am pleased to announce the availability of my 2013 weather observation highlights video, "Stormy Skies 2012-13: Wild Weather for All Seasons." Among a number of other interesting storms, this video features the entire lifecycle of the Rozel, Kansas EF-4 tornado on May 18. For more info on the video, please click the link below:

http://www.johnefarley.com/video2012-13.htm

The cost is $10 for DVD or $15 for Blu-Ray, plus $3 shipping. Or I will trade with other chasers who have 2013 highlights videos.
 
STORMY SKIES REVIEW

Stormy Skies 2012-2013 contains a variety of storms, not just tornadic ones. I think it would be fair to say that John is a weather chaser and this shows through his DVD/Blu Ray. I appreciate that as I consider myself foremost a weather chaser.

The disc opens with some Thundersnow / Thunderslush events in Colorado, I enjoyed this as it is something that I will probably never get to see. Next is May 18 Rozel and the whole life cycle of tornado 1 for that day is captured.
May 30 is another interesting chase, while there is no tornado I found it more interesting than many tornado footages I have seen. In John’s own words “ that is one impressible wall cloudâ€￾ , even more so when what you may have thought was a persistent fly is actually a helicopter completely dwarfed by the immense wall cloud. This wall cloud proceeded to give some strong rotation.

The last few storms on the disc appear to be “localâ€￾ chases for John, although I suppose far east Colorado is still a few hours east of his hometown. I enjoyed these storms as they remind very much of storms I would see over here in Australia. The highlight of these storms would be June 18, when he zooms in on a microburst, I have been around long enough to know severe when I see it.

The disc finishes with a montage of numerous photos of lightning, rocky mountain scenery and cloudscapes and some ominous pyrocumulus.

I swapped for the Blu Ray version and it was clear and colourful.
 
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