After a season fraught with horribly mixed-out moisture and troughs off in timing by about six hours, it looks like the 2014 chase season may finally be in it's death throes. After taking a dirty crap all over me the entire year, this bastardized excuse for a season may finally be over. A massive upper low spawned from the remnants of typhoon Nuri looks to swing into the Bering Strait tonight and open the gates for the Canadian cold air invasion. It's currently progged to swing through the Pacific NW and rapidly eject over the Dakotas, bringing an at least 30 degree change across the entirety of the Great Plains and Midwest. Add in the chance of snow going into the weekend, and it's looking like these two weeks of fall were just a little farewell before the arctic onslaught begins. I have never looked forward to the start of winter until now, with the hopes that a wet winter will maybe aid in reviving the almost dormant High Plains from the Panhandles up through to SW Nebraska for the 2015 season.
I was also sad to hear of Jim Leonard's passing last week. I never had a personal interaction with or connection to him, but the loss of a pioneer who gave many chasers my age iconic videos (such as the Ft. Cobb tornado from May 3 '99) is profoundly saddening. May he rest in peace.
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