It's All Going Quiet Over There..!

Yes, yes...it is...the US Plains that is. The Great Plains has entered a quiet period where 'chase weather' will be very hard to come by. The moisture and instability has been ridged out and the pattern looks to hold for at least a week or two. Yes, there maybe storms somewhere...but they will be few and far between. What there are will be crawled over by desperate chasers and the Vortex 2 project. Not good...and that's no criticism of anyone. People book time off work (stateside) and people fly over to chase...and this is all organised months ahead...so they want storms. Thankfully yours truly is heading out to Florida to do the evening storms thing in September (yes the storms get later in the day/evening as the wet season progresses) and maybe pick up a tropical cyclone. So I don't have that problem. Personally, if I was flying over I may consider touring around and visit Yellowstone and some other touristy meccas. I may even consider (if you have to do a touristy mecca thing) not collecting my car at all and get an internal flight direct to Orlando, Tampa or Sanford and go where there are storms (with a severe risk on 19th/20th May) and tourist meccas. You can always plan to drift back in your hire car as the plains 'perhaps' start to become active once again. It's a matter of personal choice. Would you rather be scratching around looking for moisture and convection...or would you rather be literally swimming in it. Record heat and an early start to the wet season there mean things are active. Okay...you might not get supercells, but you will get highly electrified pulse type storms and some more organised clusters. I know what I would do....May is a quiet month (tourist-wise) and Typhoon Lagoon is great at this time of year...