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001 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   Cold Outbreak
002 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   Big seas.
003 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   Cold Outbreak
004 "McDonald" [mcdonald at one.net.au]               Big seas.
005 Matt Smith [disarm at braenet.com.au]             ***** SEVERE VIRUS ALERT ***** 
006 Jacob [jacob at iinet.net.au]                     IRC Meeting tonight
007 Chris Maunder [cmaunder at dynamite.com.au]       ***** SEVERE VIRUS ALERT ***** 
008 Susan Puddifer [susanpud at sydney.healey.com.au  Big seas.
009 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]   Big seas.
010 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]   Big seas.
011 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]   Big seas. & past North Coast Floods
012 "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au]           Melbourne Storm Chasers

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:16:50 -0800
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Pardon my ignorance but what are the signs for heavy glaciation in
clouds?

Anyone?



Lindsay

Chris Maunder wrote:
> 
> At 12:19 29/03/99 , you wrote:
> Canberra itself was hovering in the 10-12 degree range for
> >much of the day, although it did get to a max of 17, not sure when
> >(probably fairly early before the showers started, I expect).
> >Canberra's March record low max is a surprisingly high 12.4, so it's
> >a pity the showers didn't fire up a bit earlier :-)

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:26:18 -0800
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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G'day Michael,

Yes, doesn't Cronulla Point stand up nicely. So thick. I've watched Occy
and others there going off.

Well, I am aproaching 34,not old I know but lots of injuries from
surfing  big ground swells over the years, you know, death wish type
stuff as a youngster...the things you do, Geez. I used to have a van at
Ulladulla and the weather brought in some great ground swells down
there. Some of the lightning shows out to see were insane. 


Lindsay

Michael Thompson wrote:
> 
> A couple of nice breaks mentioned there Lindsay. I have surfed Cronulla
> Point into double figures as well and it is such a workable wave at that
> size.
> 
> I have also surfed Dee Why point, but it is not in the same class as
> Cronulla Point.  Hopefully with warm water offshore the first significant
> cold air pools will stir up some east lows.

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:15:06 -0800
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Interesting observations Blair,

On Monday Blackheath had a max of 13. Not that cold for here but it
hovered around 8-10 for most of the day unil the air warmed up justlong
enough to get us to 13. And that was after a minimum of 3.5 (unofficial)
and a light frost.


Lindsay.

Blair Trewin wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi all,                                                                                                       A pool of cold air moving across Melbourne this morning. Frequent heavy showers with some small hail and thunder. 51.4mm to 9am here in Kilsyth. Scoresby had 53mm. Most other suburbs have had less than 30mm. Melbourne city recorded only 6mm to 9am and Melbourne Airport had just 2mm. Loud crack of Thunder around 7am and another not so loud around 8am. Good hail shower 8.10 to 8.20am bu
> Quite an impressive cold outbreak, this one (for late March anyway).
> I observed (i.e. was hit by!) small hail in the Mount Clear area
> (75km S of Canberra, elevation ~1200m) about 12.15 yesterday - it's
> not often the Canberra region experiences hail in cold outbreak
> situations (as opposed to thunderstorms) so it came as quite a
> surprise. Canberra itself was hovering in the 10-12 degree range for
> much of the day, although it did get to a max of 17, not sure when
> (probably fairly early before the showers started, I expect).
> Canberra's March record low max is a surprisingly high 12.4, so it's
> a pity the showers didn't fire up a bit earlier :-)
> 
> In marked contrast, Saturday's minimum of 18 was close to a late-
> season record for Canberra - only beaten by 30 March 1968 (19.6) and
> possibly 5 April 1986 (18.0).
> 
> Enjoy the excitement while it lasts - the next 7-8 days look
> exceedingly boring in SE Australia, apart from a weakish front on
> Tuesday night which could bring some highland snow to Tasmania.
> Could be some low mins tonight as well - if everything goes right
> some March records could come under pressure, although the air mass
> may have warmed up too much by then. The cool air has pushed a long
> way north (Alice Springs is only expecting 23 today under clear skies,
> a marked contrast with the persistent near-record highs in the high 30s
> that they've experienced through much of the month), so I'd say we've
> seen the last of the hot weather in Melbourne - I'd be surprised if
> we see 30 again this autumn.
> 
> Blair Trewin

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From: "McDonald" [mcdonald at one.net.au]
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:43:48 +1000
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Hey Lindsay and Michael,

Good to hear we have some surfers (bodyboarders - like me) on the list too.
 I can't say I'm quite in your league yet (never surfed double figures -
only 6-8ft).  You guys should check some of the swells we get down here in
Vic.  Especially down the west coast.  Bells, Catherdrals, St Georges,
Sawmills, Boneyards just to name a few places that can easily handle the
big stuff.  Injuries - well i haven't done too much serious stuff.  One
knee slice, reef cuts on hands, briused ankles from being hit by
surfboards.  Nothing too serious.  

Heading down the coast Sunday for a couple of days so hopefully I can get
in a decent surf or two then.

Boring weather in Melbourne this week.  Bring on the winter (because summer
isn't far away then).

Andrew McDonald.  

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> From: Lindsay 
> To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
> Subject: Re: aus-wx: Big seas.
> Date: Wednesday, 31 March 1999 3:26
> 
> G'day Michael,
> 
> Yes, doesn't Cronulla Point stand up nicely. So thick. I've watched Occy
> and others there going off.
> 
> Well, I am aproaching 34,not old I know but lots of injuries from
> surfing  big ground swells over the years, you know, death wish type
> stuff as a youngster...the things you do, Geez. I used to have a van at
> Ulladulla and the weather brought in some great ground swells down
> there. Some of the lightning shows out to see were insane. 
> 
> 
> Lindsay

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Hi Everyone

I recieved this email from my ISP and thought i would pass it on so you can
all keep an eye out for it.


>You may have seen and heard in the media recently about a virus called
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>is extremely dangerous and has the ability to effect any computer.
>This email contains an indepth description of the virus, how to
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>is 100% fact.  
>
>
>
>W97M.Melissa can infect both Word 97 and Word 2000 documents. Although 
>there is nothing unique in the infection routine of this macro virus, 
>it has an unusual payload that utilizes Microsoft Outlook to send 
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>infected document, the virus will attempt to start Outlook on the 
>user's machine. If Outlook is successfully started, the virus will 
>send e-mail to up to 50 people in the user's Outlook address book, 
>with a copy of the infected document attached. The e-mail subject line 
>reads: "Important Message From USERNAME", where USERNAME is taken from 
>the Microsoft Word settings. The body of the e-mail message says: 
>"Here is that document you asked for ... don't show anyone else. ;-)" 
>
>The first known document infected with Melissa is called "list.doc" 
>and contains a list of adult web sites. However, the virus will also 
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>
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>2. Melissa also infects a new Document 2 on the user's machine, even 
>   if user does not have Outlook. 
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>   previously been infected by Melissa and who does have Outlook. 
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>
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>
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>
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Just a reminder that the IRC weekly weather meeting is tonight on Austnet,
remember with daylight saving now over, there will be a change of time in
some states, this will effect the non daylight saving states.

It starts at 9pm EST, 8:30pm CST, 7pm WST.

If you dont have mIRC you can download it at:

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

If you dont have an IRC program such as mIRC, then you can chat via the web
at:

http://world.std.com/~dhart/aussie-chat/

Jacob

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Melissa email virus warning #157 for the day... *sigh*

At 14:28 31/03/99 , you wrote:
>Hi Everyone
>
>I recieved this email from my ISP and thought i would pass it on so you can
>all keep an eye out for it.

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:36:30 +1000
From: Susan Puddifer [susanpud at sydney.healey.com.au]
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Susan from Balmain
(aka Squall)

In keeping with the surfing memories - may I just make a comment that I learnt
how to surf both board and body surfing at Angourie.  First board was 10 feet
long  (2 metres plus for you young ones) and so wide i couldnt carry it under
my arm - had to perch it on my head and carry it that way.

Might I also add that this morning it was a lovely bright blue day  nice and
warm too.  Now its cold overcast and a nasty little wind coming through

Susan

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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
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Notice that the surf is up today, a ground swell of 6ft ( 8ft sets on
reefs ) from the S. Not sure if it is all connected to the S flow ahead of
that strong high over the Southern Ocean. Methinks that the fast moving
depression that developed over the southern Tasman a day or so ago may be
pushing something into it as well. Rain is visible just offshore, but it is
dry here. ( Wednesday 31st, 5.30pm ).


My favourite haunt "was" a break called Redsands, just up from the Shallows
at Bass Point, Shellharbour. In 1985 I broke my shoulder in a wipe out
there, I did not even hit the bottom, just got pitched by a thick dredging
lip, landing on my back, the lip came down on my arm and dragged it behind
my back. The arm dislocated and shoulder tendon stretched, finally a chunk
of bone ripped off the shoulder joint at the tendon. Redsands had a
reputation for a mean wave, if you made the take off the worst was over, if
you fell on take off it would drill you into the bottom, then drag you over
a barely covered reef. In fact after one particular bad wipeout I got up and
started paddling, only to find that the water drained away. I stood up and
watched in horror as a 10ft wave broke a few feet in front of me, there is
little you can do when you are in ankle deep water but wear the wall of
whitewater.

Michael

->
>Well, I am aproaching 34,not old I know but lots of injuries from
>surfing  big ground swells over the years, you know, death wish type
>stuff as a youngster...the things you do, Geez. I used to have a van at
>Ulladulla and the weather brought in some great ground swells down
>there. Some of the lightning shows out to see were insane.

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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:49:28 +1000
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Unfortunately I am speaking of 15-20 years ago. I would not brave 10ft plus
nowadays at 42 years old, not until I at least peel off 20 kilos.

Regards



-----Original Message-----

>Hey Lindsay and Michael,
>
>Good to hear we have some surfers (bodyboarders - like me) on the list too.
> I can't say I'm quite in your league yet (never surfed double figures -
>only 6-8ft).  You guys should check some of the swells we get down here in
>Vic.  Especially down the west coast.  Bells, Catherdrals, St Georges,
>Sawmills, Boneyards just to name a few places that can easily handle the
>big stuff.  Injuries - well i haven't done too much serious stuff.  One
>knee slice, reef cuts on hands, briused ankles from being hit by
>surfboards.  Nothing too serious.
>
>Heading down the coast Sunday for a couple of days so hopefully I can get
>in a decent surf or two then.
>
>Boring weather in Melbourne this week.  Bring on the winter (because summer
>isn't far away then).
>
>Andrew McDonald.

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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Big seas. & past North Coast Floods
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:05:19 +1000
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Angourie , that place brings back memories. Some weather stuff first ,
Floods - every May my parents and us kids ( we are talking  < 1974  here )
would go on holidays to Yamba, May just happens to be one of the north
coasts wetter months, so we got used to fishing in rain, swimming in rain,
running to the shower in rain, etc. We were once stuck in Yamba for a whole
week whilst the Clarence river flooded. There is an old fisherman who lives
at the southern end of the Oyster Channel near Yamba. On the side of his
shed he has marked every height peak since the  1950's ( 60's ) not sure,
anyway, the first largest peak frequency month is March. April for  some
reason takes a holiday, with the second largest peak in frequency being May.

Anybody else notice April being a weird month for coastal NSW ?  my weather
data has some very dry April's, and some wet ones too.

One of my mates even has slide of a waterspout we saw off spookies ( next
break north ), I should try to get a scan of it.

Now an Angourie story from cir 1974. I paddled out the back, the first I saw
after sitting up was a huge shark, we are talking big, the fin looked like
2ft square and brown, even its slowing slashing tail was partially out of
the water. I turned to this guy beside me ( one of the local hippy's that
used to live on the point in those days ) and said " Look mate theres are
shark over there ". He said " Yeah man, it's been there all day". Well what
was I to do, paddle in and look like a wimp ( I was only 18  and ego is a
big thing at that age ). So I decided to act cool, but slowly catch a few
waves in. Of course the first wave that rolls up and I fall straight off and
go under, no prizes for what I was thinking about whilst under the water.

Michael





-----Original Message-----
>Susan from Balmain
>(aka Squall)
>
>In keeping with the surfing memories - may I just make a comment that I
learnt
>how to surf both board and body surfing at Angourie.  First board was 10
feet
>long  (2 metres plus for you young ones) and so wide i couldnt carry it
under
>my arm - had to perch it on my head and carry it that way.
>
>Might I also add that this morning it was a lovely bright blue day  nice
and
>warm too.  Now its cold overcast and a nasty little wind coming through
>
>Susan

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From: "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au]
To: "Aussie Weather" [aussie-weather at world.std.com]
Subject: aus-wx: Melbourne Storm Chasers
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:43:39 +1000
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Only change is that there is now a 'small photo' of more of us taken at the
meeting last Saturday (am I really that short - or is everyone else *that*
tall??).

The pic is small because 'the tripod' wasn't a crash hot photographer - but
there's another pic floating about (all we have to do is extract it from
someone's camera )

http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/

You should find some pics starting to appear on various pages over the next
week.  I'll point them out on the homepage.

Jane
Bayswater, Melbourne