Talk:Storm chasing

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[edit] Influential Storm Chasers

To put it kindly, none of these persons named in that list were able to influence any of the storms they chased. (humor) However, I am not certain creating a who's who list of chasers is of any worthy note. While some of those individuals provided service to meteorology, some persons not on this list may have provided greater service to the science community.

For instance, the undergradute physicist that re-built some high quality research radar (and chased with it) that miraculously caught the last F5 tornado of the 20th century...as a note, was not on that list...

The other side of the coin depicts highly inacurate (aka somebody just trying to help withoutactually knowing what they are doing) storm chasers that have caused undue panic from false reports...the rhetorical question is what is influential?

[edit] Dangers involved?

Is there any danger involved? Whether there is or not, the article should address it. After all, being a recreational activity it could be compared to bungee jumping (being fun because it pumps your adredaline and all) because subconsciously it can be perceived as dangerous whether it really is or not. -- Natalinasmpf 02:24, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Done.

[edit] Hunt for the Super Twister

I'm not sure that this episode of Nova is influential enough to be noteworthy in this article... tornado footage is more and more common these days. Anyone else agree? -Ottergoose 20:08, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

The 1985 Nova program certainly was significant in growing the ranks of storm chasers. Many chasers can trace this as their first exposure seeding their interest or for finally propelling them to start chasing. At that time there had been almost no public exposure to storm chasing (and a rather limited number of active chasers), amd much less severe weather programs and media coverage in general. Also of some importance and as yet unmentioned in the article are several articles in the 70s-80s in Weatherwise magazine.

[edit] TV documentaries

Surely it's legitimate to post links to well-made science TV documentaries that can be viewed, even at a cost, as these contain in-depth data and visual presentation that would be of interest to the readers of this page and otherwise hard to find. Firstscience TV has several storm chasing documentaries available (see below). What do you think?

I know there are restrictions on commercial promotion but how does it differ from a link to a convention say - legitimate in the same way: as a source of information —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.80.210.49 (talk • contribs).

It is not Wikipedia's purpose to be a directory to external sources of information, especially not commercial ones. Femto 14:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pop Culture

Would it be worthwhile to add an "in pop culture" section to this page?

I'm thinking specifically of the movie Twister. Ntay 21:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Twister is mentioned in the section detailing the history of storm chasing due to its influence in greatly increasing exposure of the activity. However, it and other instances of storm chasing in popular culture could be briefly mentioned in a section devoted to cultural references. Evolauxia (talk) 12:46, 3 March 2008 (UTC)