It's been awhile since I've updated the blog, but I wanted to toss something on here letting everyone know my new DVD "Storm Snob" is done and for sale in the store. Pick up your copy today for $15 + shipping! It features a lot of unique days from 2012 including April 13, April 30, May 25 and October 12th.

I believe this is my best DVD release yet. If you don't believe me, read what fellow chaser Adam Lucio had to write here.

So I've really neglected my blog so far this year. I've not had a lot to write about as we had such a crappy year for storms and it's seemingly been 100 degrees for 3 months straight now here in Oklahoma City. I did manage to get away a few times this summer on business trips, one being to Indonesia and one to Dubai.

The Indonesian trip was first, leaving right after the 4th of July here in the US. Our objective was to install a radar archiving and playback system for the Indonesian governments radar system. This was probably the smoothest international installation I have been apart of.

As we near the end of June, it's time to reflect back on the 2012 season. As you can tell, this blog and my youtube stream has been pretty quiet and that's the way the weather has been. I went ahead and redid my tornado compilation which can be seen above and added a few of the tornadoes this year.

Highlights this year include

• March 18 - Great structure and tornadoes in Southwest Oklahoma
• April 13 - More tornadoes in Southwest Oklahoma and Norman tornado

I won yet another bag of crap from Woot here during the last woot off on April 24th. The box came yesterday and had at least a useful item in it this time.

Items included this time include:

• Flu & Germ protection supplies (useful for a germaphobe like me!)
• Bags of Texas Air
• 2 Snap Straws for drinking Soda/Pop out of a can
• Paper Mousepad daily planner
• Herrington Teddy Bears Cow with Bears stuffed animal
• Womens XL Cake or Death shirt
• Logitech Playgear pocket skin kit
• Black bag

I just got done with a 4 day stretch of amazing chasing starting Friday in Kansas where I intercepted a brief tornado near Council Grove, KS. While that chase was a let down, the following three days more than made up for it.

It has been a busy 2 week period as severe weather season kicks into high gear! It started on the 2nd with a nice storm just after dark up near Gage, OK and continued on the 9th with some nice tornadoes near Woodward. Unfortunately I didn't make it up in time for those, but the week was capped off by an active Friday and Saturday including a tornado through the city of Norman, OK on Friday which nearly hit my apartment!

It's Friday the 13th, and the 12Z NAM is painting an ominous picture for Oklahoma and Kansas today and tomorrow. The target today seems to be southwest of Oklahoma City in the Lawton to Chickasha area where instability is forecast to be the highest. Forecast hodographs are huge from Oklahoma City and southwest.

I've uploaded a couple videos from yesterday including one of the tornado going through a wind farm on the Wichita Mountains. Click the thumbnails below to view.

It's Sunday morning here in Oklahoma after the time change, and that isn't the only thing that's changed. The winds changed direction and started sucking moisture up from the gulf yesterday, with strong southerly winds. Upper 50 and low 60 dewpoints are now into north Texas and southern Oklahoma with Pauls Valley, OK reporting 61 at 10 am CST this morning. You can see the moisture return in the graphic below, with the data coming from current observations.

First chapter up is already a bittersweet chapter for me, considering I pretty much blew this day badly - April 22, 2010. Adam is chasing with Danny and I think his friend Mike, and they witness at least 5 if not 6 tornadoes documented. A few of them are brief, but Tornado #2 is very solid for a good while.