A bit of Bio

I suppose I should put something in here about myself, although many reading this probably know me already, but for those that don't:

I'm Ben Howard, soon to be 40, I'm married with a 7 year-old daughter, and live in York. I work as an IT Consultant, and I hate scrambled eggs.

My interest in the weather was borne out of childhood experiences of snow, heatwaves and storms. As I grew older I became more interested in how and why these events occurred, and tried hard to bore others around me with incessant predictions on what the weather would be like next week.

This inevitably lead to the world's first ever weather blog - TSO Weather - which was published on an almost daily basis on the mainframe systems of the then General Accident Life Assurance Corporation in 1992, with an estimated readership of over 12.

My reasons for Storm Chasing USA? A once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the kinds of storms that I can only dream of in the UK, even if we strike out on the tornado front. Get my excuses in early - I prefer lightning anyway...