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New Gallery: Feb 11, 2010 Record Breaking Snowfall

Sean Toner — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:11:26 +0000

Some images from my Flickr of this record breaking snowfall for the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

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Quick update with pictures

Sean Toner — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:45:07 +0000

Dense fog the morning of 11/23/09 in Frisco, TX

Thousands of birds flying around on a cool calm evening in north Texas.

Severe storm pictures from October 1

Sean Toner — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:10:43 +0000

Took these using my G1… not the best camera, but with beautiful shots like these its hard not to see the beauty. The first three are about 40 minutes before the store arrived, the last one is 30 minutes after the storm passed by.

Rainy day for the metroplex

Sean Toner — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:38:14 +0000

Rainy and stormy day around the metroplex as a stationary front drifts around north Texas. The rains are likely to continue for a healthy portion of the day as well. Picture below I took out the window at work here, during a heavy thunderstorm.

Extensive website downtime

Sean Toner — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:04:45 +0000

If you have noticed this website down for substantial amounts of time the last few weeks then trust me, you are not alone. Yet again Monday the website went down for about 5 hours due to a hosting company failure. I was using MyDomain to host this site for about a month before the site slowed to a crawl and eventually became completely inaccessible for nearly two weeks. I just moved all the content over to Dot5Hosting instead and even they went down for a good portion of the day Monday GRR. I had more reliability hosting off my little 2.7Ghz server at home with a dynamic IP than I have with PAID WEB HOSTING. Hopefully this new host will have no more troubles… I figured it was about time I got around to providing an update to why this site has been down alot.

Now for your viewing entertainment until my next weather related post, please enjoy one of my latest Flickrs:

Flickr: Tree down in my apt complex

Sean Toner — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:21:48 +0000

This is the scene all around the Frisco Bridges area where I live and work, numerous trees down in the area. The tree limb pictured here appears to be about 8 inches in diameter, snapped at the base.

New HD camcorder for storm chasing

Sean Toner — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:47:21 +0000

My storm chasing trip begins in a few short hours! With perfect timing, I just received my new HD video recorder. Model is a Canon HF S100, with a 32gb SDHC card. This should give me about 3 hours of full HD quality recording (1920×1080) in either 60i, 30p or 24p on the card.

Now lets just see if i can snap a tornado! This’ll be my first storm chasing trip so I hope to make the most of it.

Outdoor fun and cool birds

Sean Toner — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:50:10 +0000

Went to a cool park in McKinney TX today, temps were sitting around 80 degrees with dew points in the 60s. It was warm with mostly cloudy skies but otherwise not too bad. Took these pics while at the Town Lake Rec Area.

I am not sure what kind of birds these are but they were everywhere. Never got birds like these in Florida, anyone know what kind they are?

Picture of some of the storms

Sean Toner — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:28:57 +0000

Looking out the window here at work right now.

Part of my WtS business card

Sean Toner — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:24:19 +0000

Part of my business card… this is linked from my Flickr