Today, I skipped out on the daily weather briefing. I’ve had a pretty long bout with a stomach virus that I got in Hays, so I didn’t really feel up to going. After a bit of lounging in my hotel room, I went down to the lobby. I found out that – even though conditions for severe storms were sub-marginal – we were going to go “dry microburst chasing.” I have to confess, it’s not my cup of tea. As I previously mentioned, I wasn’t really feeling up to it either.
We targeted Sidney, NE. Upon arriving in Sidney, Brian Baker (FC driver) and I went Dairy Queen for a Blizzard. It was probably a bad idea, considering the state of my stomach. Fortunately, I suffered no ill-effects from the ice cream. And it was good.After this, we intercepted some weak multi-cell junk southwest of Sidney. There were a few microbursts, but nothing spectacular (as would be evidenced by flying dust). At any rate, I actually slept for a little while during the mission. David Dowell asked me if I was “having fun yet?” Whoops! I roused and decided to try to make lemonade out of the lemons the atmosphere was tossing us. The mission ended fairly quickly, and we headed back to Ogallala for the evening.
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