My input.
15 December Thunderstorms
Nice storms around today but unfortunately we were missed by them.
Line 1 moved north of us through the Morayfield/Caboolture area I am guessing. We rode to McDonnell Road and watched some infrequent CG's, we realized it was trcking north so we found a new position out the front of Kippa Ring School where we saw some stunning CG displays. I got a few videos and got some AWESOME stills out of the videos. We went home and my dad drove us to Scarborough to watch the lightning as the storm moved out into the bay, but when we arrived the storm had collapsed and there was no lightning. We got back at about 6.20pm and saw that a second cell had formed and was coming this way.
We checked the warning and the radar and decided to ride up to McDonnell Road, we got there and saw it was a really CG active cell. There was a massive guster, it was really, really big. By this time we noticed the storm was moving to the NW so we went back down to Kippa Ring School where we viewed some CG's and there was also possibly a lowering from the guster that looked like the start of a tornado, it was visible when lightning lit the sky up, it was the for around 1 minute before it wasn't there the next flash. We stayed for another couple of minutes until we headed to Corey's house to get shots from his westward facing verandah. We checked the radar and the severe thunderstorm warning and it was predicted the storm would pass to our NW. We went outside and started filming some beautiful anvil crawlers I got some good videos and even better video stills out of it. We filmed for a good hour at least. We went and checked the radar again to see it had all passed and we saw another cell had formed and was coming this way. When it got here it had collapsed into some moderate rainfall and some infrequent CC's which were accompanied by some really loud, long rumbles of thunder.
In my rain gauge we had 6.5mm of rain from this day. It was a good day to start the holidays.
16 December Thunderstorms
The day started off early with storm cells firing up around Warwick and Toowoomba and moving to the North-North East. I keenly eyed the radar for a few hours and knew we were not going to get a direct hit. The storms went through Gympie, Rainbow Beach and surrounding areas. Double Island Point - approximately 4km east of the Rainbow Beach Township, recorded wind gusts of 196km/h as the storm went through the area. This may be a malfunction of the equipment but I haven't heard anything officially. The also received 30mm of rain in 30 minutes. Here we received 2mm from a weak cell that passed through and gave us some decent rumbles and crawlers. At around 11pm a line of convergence hit here and we got another 7mm out of it overnight
