People are gonna be out in bars rooting for Cape Verde against Argentina like it's Mercer-Duke in the NCAA Tournament. That college hoops vibe of the World Cup is REAL.
Storm chase seasons are measured by objective metrics, but they are defined just as much by subjective ones.
I may be biased, but I am incredibly proud of the Northeast chasers who compressed an entire season into one or two weeks on the Plains, came home with lifetime photographs, and experienced storms they had only dreamed of seeing.
I am equally impressed by the Illinois chasers who made the most of an exceptional local season and capitalized on every opportunity in front of them.
Livestreamers, researchers and full time Plains chasers, who grind through slower years regionally, driving tens of thousands of miles to distant targets while continually investing in better forecasting, better equipment, and higher quality coverage. Severe weather has never been documented *this extensively* at any point in human history and that’s credit to those who show up, score or bust, and remain locked in.
Not everyone has the advantage of living in a place where classic supercells are only a couple of hours away every week like Colorado.
Never let someone else’s metric define whether your season was successful. Judge it by the quality of your work, the effort you invested, the knowledge you gained, the goals you achieved, wind shields you blew out, deer you murdered and the moments that made you fall in love with chasing all over again.