<aside> 💡 Thank you for being curious about all my recommended and most loves resources for storm chasing - in the US and in Canada.

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Education Resources

• COMET/MetEd Training - A comprehensive, free website filled with more than 550 different training modules covering convective weather, mesoscale forecasting, emergency management, and more.
  • Skywarn Spotter Training - a two module course that goes over convective weather basics (how do thunderstorms form, what are the names of the parts of a thunderstorm) as well as spotting and reporting basics. This is an American course, but the weather works the same in Canada and a good report (even if it’s to Environment Canada instead of the NWS) is a good report.
• Australia Storm Spotters’ Guide - a great reference. Sure, it’s Australian but a tornado is a tornado is a tornado.
• Skywatchers Teachers’ Guide - created by Environment Canada, this is a resource for young people, but is a lovely way to learn about all the parts of weather in Canada.
• Field Tactics for Practical Storm Spotting - a YouTube video by Skip Talbot. Great visuals, explanations, and resources offered.
• Storm Spotting Secrets - a video by Skip Talbot that shows how to use visual cues in supercells to predict what the storm is doing.
• Harvard University’s 6-week (free!) course: Backyard Meteorology: The Science of Weather
• Tornado Titans’: Titan U - a library of video learning episodes about all sorts of severe weather topics
• Spotter Network: Spotter Training (this is how you’re allowed to have a ‘red dot’ on Radarscope!)
• More advanced options…
  • Predicting Storm Photogenicness/Storm Hazards with Hodographs (Titan U)
  • Tornado Titans’ Learn to Read Hodographs Youtube playlist
  • Convective Chronicles: Definitive Guide to Hodographs and Skew-Ts Playlist
  • Cameron J. Nixon’s Tutorials:
    • How to Hodograph
    • Anticipating Deviant Tornado Motion
    • Severe Weather Sounding Analysis
  • University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology: Tornado Forecasting Workshop
  • Storm Prediction Centre, Oklahoma University, National Severe Storm Lab: Severe Thunderstorm Forecasting Video Lecture Series
  • Mike Hollingshead: Storm Analysis 101 Video Series - $20 USD
  • Mike Hollingshead: Storm Photography Video Tutorial Series - $15 USD - 8 hours of everything from camera set up to post-processing.
  • US Tornadoes: Case Archive
• Book recommendations:
  • *Storm Chasing Handbook - Tim Vasquez
  • *Severe Storm Forecasting - Tim Vasquez
  • *What Stands In A Storm - Kim Cross

Forecasting Resources

• FOCN45 - a twice per day technical forecast discussion released by Environment Canada
• Thunderstorm Outlook/Discussion - Day 1 and Day 2 graphic representation of severe summer weather forecasts across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba