October 2010 Gamma

On October 27, 2010, Chaz Villette tweeted:
 * Guess who gets to spend his birthday weekend flying into the Storm of the Century? Karma, what did I ever do to you?

On October 31 (his birthday), he tweeted:
 * Well, that was not how I anticipated spending my birthday.

The obvious inference is that the team (specifically including Chaz) was on a gamma hunt during that period.

The reference to "the Storm of the Century" presumably refers to the extremely powerful weather system that passed over the United States that week. In one story, USA Today reported:


 * "It's one of the strongest storms I've seen," said Sam Walker, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Bismarck, N.D., for 30 years. The storm's legacy in his state: up to 8 inches of snow. Blizzard warnings remained in effect in North Dakota on Wednesday morning.


 * The storm was the result of an unusually strong upper-level jet stream, which raced into the USA with 220-mph winds Monday, Weather Channel severe weather expert Greg Forbes said. East of the Rockies, the jet stream created barometric pressure readings Tuesday "lower than sometimes occurs in hurricanes."


 * All-time record-low pressures, which are measured in inches, were set in Minnesota and Wisconsin.