From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams)
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Subject: aussie-weather: bomw2000 site no more?
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 02:48:43 GMT
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Sadly, the Olympic weather site seems to have vanished somewhere
between late this morning and early this afternoon, just as some
really interesting weather is starting up around Sydney. 

Laurier Williams
Australian Weather Links and News
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wbc/

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:09:04 +1000
From: Michael Scollay 
Organization: Telstra Strategy Data & Broadband
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Laurier Williams wrote:
> 
> Sadly, the Olympic weather site seems to have vanished somewhere
> between late this morning and early this afternoon, just as some
> really interesting weather is starting up around Sydney.
> 
> Laurier Williams
> Australian Weather Links and News
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wbc/

Can't confirm. Just hit the BoM Olympic real-time obs at 1248 on
06/10/1998
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CODE       STATION             CURRENT OBS [within last hour]
                                    Temp  Dew Pt   Wind    Press  
Rain
                                   deg C  deg C   dir spd   hPa  
since 9am
                                                       Kn           mm
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SYHB       WEDDING CAKE             24.1          280 018              
OBSH       OBSERVATORY HILL         23.5   14.8       000    998   
0.0
YSSY       SYDNEY AIRPORT           23.5   14.6   310 022    997   
0.0
CBRC       CANTERBURY RACECOURSE    20.9   12.9   300 017          
0.0
HOM        HOMEBUSH                 18.7    9.5   300 015          
0.0
YSBK       BANKSTOWN AIRPORT        17.5   11.3   220 018   1000   
0.0
HPEC       HORSLEY PARK             17.7   12.0   230 016          
0.0
YSRI       RICHMOND AIRPORT         22.2   16.2   320 010    999   
0.0
PENR       PENRITH LAKES            19.9   13.6   260 018          
0.0
YSBC       BADGERY'S CREEK          15.6   15.6   230 017   1000   
0.8
YSCN       CAMDEN                   16.0   12.2   230 023    999   
0.0
MTBO       MT. BOYCE                 7.3    7.3   240 018           
13
YBTH       BATHURST                  8.7    8.7   240 015   1004    
18
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Also hit this site as the frontal system moved up this morning. With
this latest hit, one can see the cold air mass moving in over the
area!

Michael Scollay       
mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au

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Hey all,

Well we've had quite a few new people to the list recently, the number of
people currently subsribed to the list is 33.

Just to let the newcomers know, we meet each Wednesday night for a live
Australian weather discussion on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) on the undernet
network. The meeting time is at 9pm EST (7pm WST, 8:30pm CST, 10pm EDT in
Tasmania, 11am GMT) on Wednesday nights. We chat on the #Weather channel.

If your interested you need to download an irc client, the best irc client
is mIRC and you can download that at:

http://www.mirc.co.uk/

If you want to know more about IRC and what it is, take a look at:

http://www.htmltips.com/patrick/irc.html

The best way to get on the #weather channel is to do this:

In the status window in mirc, type /server NewBrunswick.NJ.US.Undernet.Org
6665
this then should show that you are connected after a few seconds, after
that then type /join #weather

mIRC setup also has a list of undernet servers that you can use also.

If you have any questions about #weather on irc please email at
jacob at iinet.net.au

Thanks.

Jacob

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:23:43 -0700
From: Dominique 
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hello people! i'm new to this  list,  so i'm just going to introduce
myself.  My name is Dominique and I am 18 year old girl, who is about to
sit the HSC in a few weeks.  I am starting to go insane sitting at my
desk, revising theorems and the like, so i am on here to recover.  I
live in Sydney, well, near sydney, and would like to know, what sort of
things do we discuss on this list?  I read a brief on this, and it was
saying that you guys like to talk about all thing autumn or
something..i'm a little confused...but anyway, that's me :)  hope to
hear from y'all soon :)

Dominique                         
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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:28:49 +0800
From: Michael Fewings 
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Hi all,

I welcome myself to aussie-weather for the first time with a big "hi all".

Yay we might get some storms in Perth tonight but feel they might be a bit to
the East of Perth (maybe a chase in stall).
It seems that you Eastern Australian chasers have it quite organized when it
comes to a storm.
Over here I really sort of play it by sight and sound. Lots of driving and
gazing.

Anyway I am keeping my fingers crossed for a night on the prowl.

Michael Fewings
http://strikeone.com.au

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At 05:23 PM 06-10-98 -0700, you wrote:
>hello people! i'm new to this  list,  so i'm just going to introduce
>myself.  My name is Dominique and I am 18 year old girl, who is about to
>sit the HSC in a few weeks.  I am starting to go insane sitting at my
>desk, revising theorems and the like, so i am on here to recover.  I
>live in Sydney, well, near sydney, and would like to know, what sort of
>things do we discuss on this list?  I read a brief on this, and it was
>saying that you guys like to talk about all thing autumn or
>something..i'm a little confused...but anyway, that's me :)  hope to
>hear from y'all soon :)
>
>Dominique                         
>-- 

The brief you read must be for the old list which use to discuss autumn in
the United States.

That list has been stopped now, and is now being used for aussie-weather.

On this list we talk about Australian weather, such as current conditions,
storms, extreme weather events, forecasts etc.. from around the nation.

Jacob

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From: Eric 
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While we're at it, I'll introduce myself as well, being new to the list.

I'm 28 and live in Gosford (just north of Sydney for those from far away).
I've had a long-running love of storms etc, however my real interest in
weather is based around my involvement with the NSW Rural Fire Service. It
started as just being able to understand the relationship between
temperature, humidity and wind speed & direction and what that did to fire
danger and/or running fires. Now they are starting to use terms like Dew
Point and so on which has led me on a quest for knowledge and, ultimately,
to this list.

Predictions of the summer that faces us are most welcome too, ditto for
winter. this game used to be about putting out fires in hot weather. Now I
almost feel like it involves a bit of rocket science as well. :)

My minor interest is more selfish. I ride a motorbike and knowing what the
weather is likely to do is a big bonus. Thanks to Laurie for pointing me here.

Cheers,

Eric

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:50:25 +1000 (EST)
From: Paul Graham 
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Subject: Re: aussie-weather: Severe Storms in Sydney
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There were no severe local storms here in Sydney but there were some very
strong wind gusts resulting from a strong frontal system.  The strongest
gusts occured around 1pm here in Sydney roughly from the N-W corresponding
to the approach of the front.  Some brief showers accompanied the front. 
To give you some idea of the thermal gradient driving the wind, the
maximum prefrontal temperature recorded at Macquarie Uni. was about 26 C
at 12pm; after the passage of the front, the temperature had dropped to
about 16 C just after 1pm. 


On Tue, 6 Oct 1998,
Anthony Cornelius wrote:

> Storms of winds over 120km/h were reported in Sydney this morning -
> that's what we heard up here anyway.  I was hoping for some reports by
> some Sydney-siders *hint hint*
> :-)
> 
> A streets' powerlines got wiped out - I personally thought it was a
> microburst, but then you'd expect some houses to have sustained
> damages!  Anyway, I've said my little bit, hope to hear from you guys
> soon :-)
> 
> Anthony

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Well it didn't seem that bad during the day! I only saw the damage after
seeing  the news when I got home from work. It did gust to about 40 knots
in Parramatta around late morning ahead of showers that dropped the temp by
about 7 degrees and also abating the wind as the thermal gradient reduced.

On another note, the CSIRO NOAA AVHRR site has updated their page for
Eastern Australia, and now have a separate page devoted to storms with an
archive of the past few images:
http://www.marine.csiro.au/~lband/storm/
I had made a sugesstion to Kim Badcock just yesterday to have a small
archive and increase the image to cover all of SE Qld - and they have done
it already!
The images are very large - but also the best on the net for Australia.

regards, Michael



At 20:19 6/10/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Storms of winds over 120km/h were reported in Sydney this morning -
>that's what we heard up here anyway.  I was hoping for some reports by
>some Sydney-siders *hint hint*
>:-)
>
>A streets' powerlines got wiped out - I personally thought it was a
>microburst, but then you'd expect some houses to have sustained
>damages!  Anyway, I've said my little bit, hope to hear from you guys
>soon :-)
>
>Anthony

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:22:32 +1000 (EST)
From: Paul Graham 
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Hello everyone,
	Jimmy Deguara informs me that there will be an interview with him
about storm chasing tomorrow morning on Brisbane radio station 4BC (1116
Khz).  Perhaps there is a RealAudio feed because reception outside of the
Brisbane region will be quite difficult without a good receiver + antenna
(besides D-layer absorption + interference from 3BM, West Melbourne).
	- Paul.