The main challenge in stormchasing and weather photography in general is just trying to work out in the days and hours before an event occurs where you should be and what to expect when you get there.

There are times when you can get lucky, and wonderful light and convection occur irrespective of your planning, but consistency requires learning how to read weather models and charts and what occurs in the atmosphere from the ground up.

It can be extremely frustrating, as models really are just an educated guess from the data imputed, and I have been left hundreds of kilometres away from the main action when an unexpected convergence of winds caused storms to occur too far away.

What do you do? You suck it up and open your eyes to what's around and work with what you have ... and you don't tell anyone that you screwed up, claiming: "Yes, of course I knew the light was going to be like this."