How many severe weather spotters are in the Louisville area?
At one time there were about 20 active spotters. Last summer (2009), I had about six faithful spotters. The number of participants comes and goes with the weather. If we’re in a drought, it’s hard to get many people participating because severe weather is rare. At other times, when there’s one storm after another over a period of weeks, people get interested again. What should I have asked that I didn’t? Ask me about my vacation. I was in California last June when I got a tweet about severe weather around 8 a.m. I logged on the NWS chat that I have been given access to, pulled up Louisville’s radar, logged into Twitter, and while having a leisurely California breakfast, passed three or four severe weather reports to the NWS in Louisville. That was pretty cool.
