Andrew Pritchard

Well, looking back at it from my own point of view, anyway. There are a handful of dates over the last 10-15 years where I felt like my hometown of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois could be staring at a potential weather disaster, and December 10th, 2021 was one of those dates. The whole experience felt like a fever dream on my end. I was traveling for work for the first time since the pandemic shut things down and flew back home from Sioux Falls, South Dakota at like Midnight the day of the...

I'm going to try something new this storm chasing off-season (also known as winter) and go through the last five years or so of my storm video archive and rewatch some of my favorite tornado or storm moments and just sort of talk out loud about what was going on in that moment. My Storm Observation VLOG library serves the purpose of telling the story of each of my storm chases as things are happening, but I'd love to take a moment now that the dust has settled on some of these events and...

A classic winter storm rolled through the Midwest on Saturday, November 29th, 2025 with high winds and heavy snow. I enjoyed the winter storm after a long week of forecasting it in the way that I like enjoying winter storms... wandering around in them. What a unique experience to be able to attend the Illinois vs Northwestern football game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, IL during the winter storm. The University only allowed seating on the west lower level of the stadium, but there was a...