now back at home

well, i wanted to get philosophical. i wanted to get contemplative. i wanted to get teacherly.

then i remembered bowman. ;)

for the inaugural canadian storm chase university class, things went remarkably smoothly. i mean, don't get me wrong--there were a lot of things we'll need to work on and change for next year, but by and large, the trip went well.

too bad the weather didn't completely cooperate.

really, though, it was pretty good. we saw wall clouds, we saw shelf clouds, we got outflowed, we saw some violent upward motion in growing towers. not a bad catch for a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants set of days.

wxdog, jay and i will be getting together over the next few weeks (likely sooner than later) to go over what went right and what went wrong. we'll talk about changes we'll need to implement and things we hope never change.

thank you all for being part of the first ever storm chasing course in canada. we all really enjoyed getting to know you (although i must say, i likely learned more than i needed to know, and i'm looking at you, yoyo.) (grin.) but seriously, i don't think we could have asked for a better group. you all participated lots, and your eagerness and keenness kept us on our toes and reminded us every day why we do what we do.

don't think this will be the end of blogging here, though. this is just the beginning. i admit, the entries may become less frequent, especially over the winter (where i'll probably talk about cool weather stuff--winter and summer) but i'll keep updating with thoughts, ideas, and streams of consciousness. and, of course, chase summaries. of which i hope some (or all) of you will be a part.

there's lots of chasing yet to do this summer. :)