what is a storm chaser?

Question

school project! Help! Also, what is a storm surge?

Thanks

Answer 1

Storm chasing is broadly defined as the intentional pursuit of any severe weather condition, regardless of motive. A person who chases storms is known as a storm chaser, or simply a chaser. While witnessing a tornado is the biggest objective for many chasers, many chase thunderstorms and delight in seeing cumulonimbus structure, watching a barrage of hail and lightning, and seeing what skyscapes unfold. There are also a smaller number of storm chasers who chase hurricanes.

Answer 2

The questions have been answered pretty well, but I'll add my input, because I am a stormchaser.

Every chaser is unique, just like every person is unique. However, what we share is a love for the great outdoors and the incredible spectacle that is a supercellular thunderstorm. There is no greater show on earth.

Some do it for money as well (though not many), most make a concerted effort to get "ground truth" to the appropriate National Weather Service Forecast Office, some do it a few days a year around their home state, some do it all over The Alley for months on end, even arriving from foreign countries for extended visits, some are meteorologists, most not, and some do it in a professional/research capacity...most not.

Another thing that binds the chaser community is our passion. We cannot possibly imagine not chasing storms. The most important date in every chaser's life was always the day of our first chase, our lives are bisected by "before-chasing", and now. We can't understand why we didn't chase before we did. There are only two types of people in this world to us: Chasers, and everyone else.

We know the dangers. We chase knowing that our avocation can well cause us to die, but the risk is inconsequential to the reward.

It embraces the spiritual, and transcends the human ability to distill to mere words of any language.

Answer 3

A storm chaser is any parent with a two year old.
The storm surge usually happens around bedtime or after eating sweets in the daytime.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Curiosity killed the cat. To be a true storm chaser you'd have to have at least some knowledge of how to work a radar, collect data about past storms/tornados in order to calculate the strength of the next, know how to recognize wind patterns and predict the movement of the storm you're chasing. If all that is too much work, all you need is a car and weather channel at home, maybe a camera to shoot some videos, seeing as how those guys (who actually work as storm chasers) don't get paid a lot of money, I'm not sure they get paid at all.

Answer 5

A storm chaser is defined as a person who pursues imminent or existing severe thunderstorms, for any reason, and operates independently or as part of a research effort.

A storm surge is an onshore rush of water associated with a low pressure weather system, typically a tropical cyclone. Storm surge is caused primarily by high winds pushing on the ocean's surface.

Good luck.

Answer 6

Storm chaser is a "who" and not a "what"

Storm chasing is broadly defined as the intentional pursuit of any severe weather condition, regardless of motive. A person who chases storms is known as a storm chaser, or simply a chaser. While witnessing a tornado is the biggest objective for many chasers, many chase thunderstorms and delight in seeing cumulonimbus structure, watching a barrage of hail and lightning, and seeing what skyscapes unfold. There are also a smaller number of storm chasers who chase hurricanes.

Storm chasing is chiefly a recreational endeavor, with motives usually given toward photographing the storm for personal reasons. Though scientific work is sometimes cited as a goal, such work is almost always impractical except for those participating in a university or government project. Many chasers also are storm spotters, reporting their observations of hazardous weather to the authorities. Storm chasers are not paid to chase, with the exception of television media crews in certain television markets, video stringers and photographers, and a handful of graduate meteorologists and professors. A few entrepreneurs, however, manage to sell storm video and pictures or operate "chase tour" services. Financial returns are relatively meager given the expenses with most chasers spending more than they take in.

The very first storm chaser is generally agreed to be Roger Jensen (1933–2001), a Fargo, North Dakota native who pursued western Minnesota storms from Lake Park around 1951 ([1] [2]). David Hoadley (1938– ) began chasing North Dakota storms in 1956, systematically using data from area weather offices. Bringing research chasing to the forefront was Neil Ward (1913–1972) who in the 1950s and 1960s enlisted the help of Oklahoma state police to study storms. His work pioneered modern storm spotting and made institutional chasing a reality.

See more on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_chasing

Answer 7

A storm chaser is someone who finds storms for either professional or recreational purposes. They normally like to video or photograph "extreme" weather such as lightning or even tornadoes.

A storm surge is simply water that is pushed towards shore by the force of winds that are swirling around a storm system such as a hurricane.

Answer 8

Storm chasers are scientists who follow storms around, some in aeroplanes, and some on land. They are important for predicting the generation of violent storm. This is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, as it sometimes involves flying rather big aeroplanes right into the middle of hurricanes and so on.

Answer 9

A metorolgist that goes directly in the storm to collect wind speeds and pressure and what not. Storm surge happens during a hurricane. Right before the hurricance comes, the water recides on the coastline. Then when it comes, the water can go up to 30ft. where the water orginally was!

Answer 10

storm chasers are people, (mainly in mid western america) who drive around looking for tornados to get close to in order to do scientific research on how the storm is formed etc and they photograph the tornado among other things,a storm surge is when the sea is pushed towards land by a storm at sea and it surges landwards