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From north to south

VORTEX2: May 24, 2009 - 15th. Operations provided for in the field: travel day. Miles traveled
Today: 479. Total miles traveled: 4131.

is finally the big announcement. Paul Markoswky conducting the briefing in the morning detailing the weather in the coming days and finally clarifies the choice of Principal Investigators, or go south.
For now the only opportunity to hunt some cell thunderstorm is limited to the eastern part of Wyoming that means in terms of distance about 4-5 hours drive north-east. The main problem is that on Monday there might be some possibility of interception (albeit marginal, as in this period) in Texas today and if you end up hunting in Wyoming means giving up something hunting on Monday.
So the order came to abandon the great north to head south Amarillo target without haste, because something like 480 miles separate us, that in almost 770 km!

For Today I leave my job as navigator nell'Hummer code known as Probe 14 to make the driver in the Probe 11. My traveling companions for today are Tim Marshall researcher well known in the industry and a freelance operator of Weather Channel.
The trip runs quiet and the company of Bryan and Tim is very nice, I try to instill them with a bit of Italian geography and the operator to explain some more details Weather Channel on the operation of various radars present in the closet.
Tim knows the Great Plains as his pockets, and so while we go down along the west side of Kansas do not lose the opportunity to go to the museum dedicated to the "Wizard of Oz" on Liberal few steps before entering Oklahoma. The Wizard of Oz is a wonderful story set in Kansas, I suggest that everyone read ... I did an audio book in English before leaving for the mission to the United States and it was really nice.

Being today in place of the setting of this fantastic story is a pleasant experience as you can see near the Tin Man from the tin man with a good heart, the lion timid and cowardly, brainless scarecrow and Dorothy's dog Toto, the main character.
The journey continues with the short crossing of the Oklahoma panhandle and then we move in the pan handle of Texas. Along the way we meet several rain and some lightning illuminates our path until fuorisciti rains a spectacular rainbow over the canyon of the river Canadian forces us to stop for some photos and filming. Just before arriving in town do a final stop at the weather service in Amarillo, where there is an installed radar. A couple of players leaving the office to greet us and chat in the lights of the sunset before reaching the restaurant for dinner where a waiter recognizing ourselves as members of VORTEX2 literally goes mad with joy.

And when we say that the whole armada was in town and can also come tomorrow morning briefing to the boy is no longer in the skin and tells us that today is one of the best days of his life, better meet Michael Jordan. The VORTEX2 is also this, people who are curious crowd the parking lot of the hotels where we stay to take pictures of our strange vehicles and maybe be able to exchange a few words with someone, a lot of families with children posing in front of the radar shows that with Josh Wurman very sensitive with smaller, fans who do not lose the opportunity to call friends and acquaintances to come and see the whole convoy, the cars that pass us on the freeway and take pictures healthy ...