What Will You Do Different in 2020?

[Jason Boggs]

@Warren Faidley I think we both agree with the first sentence on this Xterra forum! LOL

 

[adlyons]

Welp life is funny and plans change. My initial thought of not taking an official chasecation still stands but I will be moving back to Norman in late March as a new mesoscale forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center. This gives me a much better shot at some local tornado days than Cheyenne and Northern Colorado did with my previous work schedule. Hoping I can get some late April and plenty of May days to satisfy the itch!

 

[Jason Boggs]

Welp life is funny and plans change. My initial thought of not taking an official chasecation still stands but I will be moving back to Norman in late March as a new mesoscale forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center. This gives me a much better shot at some local tornado days than Cheyenne and Northern Colorado did with my previous work schedule. Hoping I can get some late April and plenty of May days to satisfy the itch!

Awesome! Congrats on the new job!

 

[adlyons]

Awesome! Congrats on the new job!

Thanks Jason! Hoping I can make it back out to your neck of the woods more often now! Love some panhandle days

 

[Ben Holcomb]

This year will be good for me if we actually get a decent chase year. I feel the last 3 have really sucked/been limited in a lot of different ways from weather to personal things.

Now I make a bunch more money, have a reliable vehicle, and have all the flexibility in the world with my job. I also refuse to take other people chasing anymore after I had many years of dragging dead weight around with visitors from in and out of country.

The goal is yet again to get close shoot wide. I will not be happy if I don't get closer than I did to Mangum this year. I get free windshields for the next 4 years so hail and debris is fine(The up charge "warranty" when I bought my car of $400 is going to pay off big time) if it happens.

And I hope to pull my prank off this year. It will be a blast. Literally

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I don't have any new technology plans other than a rear-facing, 4k camera and maybe a body cam.

I purchased the DJI Osmo action camera and it probably would make a nice body camera. You could even vlog with it. I like it a lot but now I'm wondering about the GoPro 8 with the media attachments. They look nice! I have a Sony FDR-AX700 4K camera, it's nice as long as you don't rapidly move it around as the stabilization isn't that spectacular.

It's funny, I spend more of camera gear now that I don't chase than I did back when I chased

 

[James Wilson]

I also refuse to take other people chasing anymore after I had many years of dragging dead weight around with visitors from in and out of country.

Good call! This is something that I did years ago and has completely changed my results.

 

[Jason Boggs]

Well, going to hopefully fix the issues with my headlights by going with a standalone light bar from RIGID lights. It's a 10 inch LED light bar that will be mounted in the front bumper of my Xterra. Of course I will use it as I do with high beams when traffic approaches. I will leave it on and BLIND everyone! Just kidding! I will turn it off well in advance of oncoming traffic. Here are some specs...

RIGID E SERIES PRO DRIVING 10 inch LED light bar
SAE Street legal
18,810 lumens
Shoots light 620 meters down the road

I will generally use this on those very rural FM roads where I really need to see things like possible storm debris/wildlife in the road.

EXTRA: Increases CAPE by a margin of 750 j/kg on those low instability days! LOL