H&H Test Chase 🌪📸👍🏻 — Travis Farncombe

Published on April 25, 2019

Driving home from the cottage after a great weekend! Man do these low clouds make me excited for storm season to kick off here in Ontario!!! ⚡️🤞🏻⚡️ SOON

Waiting on something interesting to photograph to post a test pic to Twitter 📸

Testing the @highwayshail H&H mobile chase app on this dreary 🌧 #onwx day, dreaming of storm season to come ⚡️!

So far so good! Testing photos, videos, notes and sharing to Twitter.. still wishing this were an actual storm day! ⚡️

Light just turned green, listening to Old MacDonald had a farm🐓🐖🐄

If only this were a supercell. Sigh. Anyway, this photo was taken using camera and imported through app - another test! — If only this were a supercell. Sigh. Anyway, this photo was taken using camera and imported through app – another test!

His nose was made of cheese?

*NOT* a safe place to seek shelter from a 🌪

This is a test to use speech recognition. Also I’m curious to see how it will display on the chase log when it publishes. Will it show up as a paragraph? Will it show up as an embedded comment? Will see

In 2009, this area was hit by the F2 🌪 in Vaughan

Both kids are crying. GPS says 17 minutes.

Test chase is coming to an end! The app has been shaper intuitive and fun to use 🌪💃🏻

Travis Farncombe

I am the founder Highways & Hailstones. I live with my family in Toronto, Ontario - about 2000 miles from Oklahoma City and the heart of Tornado Alley. Every spring and summer, I travel down there, to the American Midwest, to witness the most awe-inspiring weather on the planet.

The first time I chased was ten years ago; I signed up as a guest with a storm chase tour company, and joined that group for a week on the plains. I saw my first tornado on that trip. It was a silhouette on a dark Kansas night, betrayed by strobes of lightning flickering in the distance. While the rest of the tour guides and group scanned the storm to the south, a lingering flash drew my glance to the north, and there, unmistakable, was a backlit cone. It was serendipity. I yelled cone tornado!, and a storm chaser was born.

After chasing for a few years as a guest with Silver Lining Tours, I gradually began to spread my wings and chase on my own, having learned enough from Roger Hill and other veterans to chase safely and responsibly. I became a guide with SLT in 2015. Now, I am a certified spotter and chase locally in Southern Ontario, as well as down in Tornado Alley. I am always meeting new people, always learning, and always humbled by the power of nature.

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