Storm Chase 2013, Day 0 - It's that time of year again!

Day 0 - So here we are, me and Chris Steele at a Heathrow Airport hotel, for a night's rest before catching a flight from London to Houston tomorrow.

Look forward to seeing the family, eating tex-mex and drinking some sweet iced tea tomorrow...

Weather-wise we arrive into something that resembles more of a late winter pattern than mid-spring in SE Texas, where they are expecting much colder than average temps, in the 40s F for the first few nights after our arrival. Typical - bringing the weather with us.

As far as the storm chasing prospects - there won't be many until at least the middle of the coming week, but the pattern does appear to be a little more favourable for storms to develop across parts of west-central Texas by Wed the 8th, with the pattern looking slightly more active for a few days after that date. No large scale severe weather pattern is showing up in the models during the chase period, but hopefully there will be few things to go after from the 8th onward.

Don't expect much from a cloud/weather pictures perspective for a few days, but I'll keep you posted on the calorie intake which should eclipse the daily recommended amount quite easily.

Bedtime calls, alarm for 445am.