Thanks Jimmy, the Hexham cell looked more impressive than the picture suggest, and yes there was some weak rotation. I noticed your Coopernook cell looked quite good. I passed through the area just earlier whilst the bases were still quite high. I hould have lagged a little further back in hindsight.
Queensland was a different story all together. Moisture was not an issue, too much at Maryborough at 6am actually - hard to see structure through the scud flying everywhere. I was parked in a pineapple field when the core of the morning storm hit, the winds gusted to 50knots max, but the damage I saw later just a few kilometres from me suggested stronger winds. Mind you eucalyptus trees do shed branches quite easily. Later in the day I still had trouble finding sunshine, i should have keep going NW until I found the boundary of drier air, instead due to having to be back at 2pm on Thursday I gambled on further development on the NW f;ank of the Brisbane cells - this did not occur, instead a massive tract of SE Queensland was shaded by an anvil from a strom over 200 kms away. This killed convection.
I spent the whole 3 days passing other chasers !
Don't think we will passing any chasers for at least a week now. This year is so dreadful !
