Storm Chasing

Storm chasing

Tornado Alley. Nebraska USA

Welcome to my blog. I’m a storm chaser. What does this mean?

1 Basically, I follow storms. It’s exciting! I do it every spring − spring is tornado season! Some storm chasers are scientists. Others, like me, just like the adventure. We do it in our free time. This month, I’m chasing storms with my friend, Joe. We don’t see a tornado with every storm, but we often do!

Day 1 We’re driving through Tornado Alley in the USA. We’re starting our trip in Nebraska. We’ve got a computer, a video camera and instruments that tell us about the weather. Joe is looking at satellite weather reports on the internet. He uses information in the reports to calculate where the storm is starting. Joe says we’ve got a long drive in our truck today. 2 . So let’s go! insight Elementary Workbook Unit 4 pp.40–41 © Oxford University Press 20 14 1 Elementary Workbook Unit4 insight Elementary 5 It’struck. really noisy and there’s ice everywhere! lots of hail This is it! The clouds are moving quickly. Now there’s Day 4 4 near Tulsa, Oklahoma, butthere aren’t any clouds! It’s not day agood today. After aseven-hour drive, we’re Day 3 3 We’re in the middle of an incredible Day 2 there aren’t any tornadoes! there’s alot of water on the It’s roads. flooded raining. dangerous Driving is the very at moment because from here tomorrow. So, another long drive … where to drive tomorrow. There’s apossible storm 200 km looking some at satellite information. Joe and Iare deciding and it’s windy. very The wind speed is sleep … … sleep It’s the end of the storm! But what aday! Fantastic! Time to find ashelter It’sit. too dangerous! We need to get out of our truck and

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