His day job as a research meteorologist is less action-packed than his hobby of hunting down bad weather at home and abroad. Here, Noel Fitzpatrick talks about crisscrossing the US in search of the perfect storm, the risks and being in the right place at the right time
The Perfect Storm
Noel Fitzpatrick is the kind of customer car hire companies hate to see coming. The reason? Most tourists only drive a couple of hundred kilometres in a hire car but, on his last US trip, he managed to put over 10,500 kilometres on the clock of his hire car in just two weeks.
He laughs and says a little-known aspect of storm chasing is checking that your car-hire agreement includes unlimited mileage — “10,500 kilometres is a little crazy but storm chasing is like that. These journeys are really glorified road trips where you spend most of your time driving, and that’s the main focus of the trip,” says Fitzpatrick.
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