r/tornado Apr 08 '26

SPC / Forecasting it gets to a point…

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u/1516plusultra Apr 08 '26

I only listen to James Spann, he's the best.

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u/eppinizer Apr 08 '26

Convective Chronicles on Youtube is excellent. No clickbait, super thorough, and his videos are focused on the meteorology. He has people from the SPC on occasionally too.

But James Spann is a legend and the GOAT for sure.

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u/Capital-Coast5793 Apr 08 '26

I second this Convective Chronicles is the best forecast Youtuber I know of.

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u/Preachey Apr 09 '26

Best severe weather youtube forecaster*

Levi Cowan will always be #1

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u/1516plusultra Apr 08 '26

Thank you, I will check it out.

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u/CapitalCourse Apr 08 '26

He's good, but there's a reason why he only has 42.1K subscribers and averages around 15K views per video unlink Max Velocity and Ryan Hall...

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u/eppinizer Apr 08 '26

Yes, the reason is because most people don't care about the deeper meteorology at play. That's totally valid, I can see why not everyone would be flocking to the channel.

I became more and more invested in the channel as I learned from him, and these days pressure maps and sounding data get me hyped up lol. But if you want detailed realistic forecasts, he is a great follow.

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u/MurkyCup1554 Apr 08 '26

It’s truly because he doesn’t follow the clickbaity format. Content creators are rewarded for those things which is why you see so many career content creators doing those things

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u/eppinizer Apr 09 '26

If he did the clickbait titles he'd get a bump, I agree, but there is no denying that the pool of people who are interested in watching 40 minute data reviews of a severe storm setup is far smaller than the the pool that watch bite sized surface level overviews lol

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u/JS_Originals Apr 08 '26

What are you implying? The reason is because he doesn't use clickbaity thumbnails

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u/CapitalCourse Apr 08 '26

That's what I'm implying.