• 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.

TORNADIC WATERSPOUT ITALY OCTOBER 25 2011

Olivier Staiger

Olivier Staiger

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to admin, I am not certain if this belongs here or to Target area, please feel free to move if needed.

I am living in Switzerland, I chased with swiss meteorologist Dean Gill on 25 october and saw a nice tornadic waterspout just off the coast of Italy, near Riomaggiore in Cinque Terre Liguria.

huge rainfalls has caused flashfloods and mudslides in the area. numerous roads closed. several people died. Heavy damage in some towns.

we left Geneva at 6 AM. On italian side of MontBlanc tunnel it was snowing. watched the storm from east of Portofino, then tried to cross the storm on small roads but the flooding problem was getting too intense so we turned around and took interstate A12 and got to the east/south warmair side of the storm, saw a few weak spouts / gustnadoes? / funnels , ... and finally at half past 3 PM a nice tornado at Sea


some videos of the day are on now on my youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/klipsigeneva
 
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