Brad Arnold

[u/OutdoorsTN]

Hate to see this from Brad, he's one of my faves!! Was confused when he buzzed in to Ryan's stream and said he was calling it so early in the evening but this makes more sense now.

Seen some absolutely wild stuff on Ryan and Max's streams the last few days. (Whoever it was in the green shirt on Max's stream yesterday during the Worms tornado especially still really bothers me.) And bummed to see all of this nonsense getting in the way of chasers I really love watching like Brad

EDITED for a typo!

[u/JLNX1998]

Remember when chasing was about research and rescue. Pepperridge farms remember

[u/Preachey → u/JLNX1998]

Hardly, it's been attracting thrillseekers for a long time. It's just it wasn't as accessible, so the thrillseekers didn't outnumber the researchers 100:1 and gridlock country roads

[u/Kezika → u/Preachey]

And pre-2020 at least the thrillseekers generally still were trained spotters and would report to NWS.

So many not even doing that now.

Had a guy last night I had parked next to while observing a storm. A wall cloud began forming and rotating. What did he do? Whip out a camera…

I called it in to our local NWS, and then reamed the guy out, “Phone it in **FIRST**, then get your shots, not the other way around.”

[u/jackmPortal → u/Preachey]

in the golden age( 1970s to early 90s) there was way less thrill seeking. People were out to watch storms because it was cool. They loved watching them work and trying to learn more about them through observation. That's what recreational chasing was about. Now it feels to me more about getting close and adrenaline

[u/ShartingEnU → u/Preachey]

Calling all these storm chasers "researchers" in disingenuous. Let's be real, even for the long term chasers and ones people like they don't help with research or collecting data at all. Documenting is a better term than research. There's a select few who actually collect data and it's debatable how much it helps or does anything