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001 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at rmitel.com.au] ld/NSW Depression
002 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] ld/NSW Depression
003 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] ld/NSW Depression
004 Dane Newman [dpn at bigpond.com] Hi Chas
005 Paul_Mossman at agd.nsw.gov.au From Strahan Tasmania
006 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] Mary River
007 "L.J. & B. Smail" [gws at pipeline.com.au] Canberra or Melbourne?
008 "L.J. & B. Smail" [gws at pipeline.com.au] signs of winter
009 "Craig Williams" [tincra at ecn.net.au] Boreen Point, Sunhine Coast obs
010 "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au] signs of winter
011 Chris Maunder [cmaunder at dynamite.com.au] Canberra or Melbourne?
012 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Canberra or Melbourne?
013 Michael_Bath at amp.com.au signs of winter
014 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] Boreen Point, Sunhine Coast obs
015 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Wind in Oklahoma tornado recorded at 512 km/h
016 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au] From Strahan Tasmania
017 "Paul Graham" [v_notch at hotmail.com] From Strahan Tasmania
018 "Ben Tichborne" [tich at netaccess.co.nz] GASP is back...
019 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] signs of winter
020 "Ben Tichborne" [tich at netaccess.co.nz] From Strahan Tasmania
021 Susan Puddifer [susanpud at sydney.healey.com.au From Strahan Tasmania
022 Chas & Helen Osborn [hosborn at tassie.net.au] Thanks for making me welcome
023 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] From Strahan Tasmania
024 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au] ld/NSW Depression
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:01:20 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at rmitel.com.au]
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I think you can just about take 'QLD' out of the topic now...what a
letdown! Certainly was not the situation I expected there to be, the
rain litterally "skipped" Brisbane altogether. Oh well...there goes my
hope of more flood photo's.
The models are still somewhat varied, but there's an upper level trough
coming through here on Thursday. AVN has a reasonable amount of
moisture over us (13g/kg) for 06z, and hence with the forecast sounding
should give a marginally unstable CAPE (400-500) but - the air will be
drying quickly from behind, and SEQ storms don't like this. Tomorrow
will give a better indication...at the moment I'm think along the lines
of border range thunderies, we'll see!
Anthony from Brisbane
John Graham wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> You wouldn't read about it.............after posting the email last night,
> it started to rain this morning......
> Had 35mm between 9am & 3pm, 43.8mm so far as I write (22:53).
> Can someone pass me a piece of Humble
> Pie????..................................
> See Ya's
> John from Ballina
> P.S. Michael B, I've recorded 1191mm so far this year (that's with today's
> total as well)
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:49 +1000
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Hi all,
Well it's all over here - stopped raining this morning after a couple of
feeble drizzle patches. All in all I can't complain, I have recorded 41mm
in the last 6 days which compares very favourably with the miserable 28mm
for ALL of April. For those of us trying grow a couple of Acres of
rainforest, we need as much as we can get and it was starting to dry out
rather badly.
John W.
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Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 1999 22:57
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Subject: Re:aus-wx:Qld/NSW Depression
Hi All,
You wouldn't read about it.............after posting the email last night,
it started to rain this morning......
Had 35mm between 9am & 3pm, 43.8mm so far as I write (22:53).
Can someone pass me a piece of Humble
Pie????..................................
See Ya's
John from Ballina
P.S. Michael B, I've recorded 1191mm so far this year (that's with today's
total as well)
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 07:39:26 +1000
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey Ben from Brisbane here..
Well i got 30mm in the 24 hours to 9am yesterday, bringning my total
from the last 4/5 days to 60mm.. Certainly a nice amount of rain, but i
was expecting much more.. as Anthony said, the rain seemed to littleraly
skipped Brisbane, with the rain band that produced the heavy falls on
the sunshine coast moving SE overnight to be off the coast by morning,
instead of moving due south like it was forecast too..
Some lumpy falls north of Brisbane, these figures are for the 24 hours
to 9am 11-05-99 (yesterday):
Hervey Bay 204
Rainbow Beach 166
Sandy Cape 148
Boreen Point 136
Eumundi 128
Pomona 122
Cooran 110
Toolara AWS 111
Lake Cooroibah 107
Maleny 97
Also the weekly rainfall bulletin shows some very nice totals for the 7
days to 9am Tuesday:
Hervey Bay 440/* (I take it they think this figure is a bit fishy
with the * beside it, it's very much believable though)
Boreen Point 276
Baroon Pckt Dam 229
Yandina 221
Rainbow Beach 211
Maleny 202
Palmwoods 215
Pt Arkwright 184
Cooran 182
And a nice scattering of falls between 50-150mm, you can see the weekly
totals here
http://www.BoM.GOV.AU/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDO41Q02.txt
This next upper level trough+cold pool due Thursday should be
interesting, it's not weak by any means and the BOM have already changed
their forecasts to Afternoon rain and local thunder... it's gotta be
better than blue sky? And i think we have a slight chance of a storm, or
at least seeing something nice on the Border ranges..
The BOM are including another upper level system over central Australia
late weekend/early next week in their long range outlook.. we're living
in upper level city these days! I love it!
John Woodbridge wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Well it's all over here - stopped raining this morning after a couple of
> feeble drizzle patches. All in all I can't complain, I have recorded 41mm
> in the last 6 days which compares very favourably with the miserable 28mm
> for ALL of April. For those of us trying grow a couple of Acres of
> rainforest, we need as much as we can get and it was starting to dry out
> rather badly.
>
> John W.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Graham [SMTP:gorzzz at one.net.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 1999 22:57
> To: Aussie Weather
> Subject: Re:aus-wx:Qld/NSW Depression
>
> Hi All,
>
> You wouldn't read about it.............after posting the email last night,
> it started to rain this morning......
> Had 35mm between 9am & 3pm, 43.8mm so far as I write (22:53).
> Can someone pass me a piece of Humble
> Pie????..................................
> See Ya's
> John from Ballina
> P.S. Michael B, I've recorded 1191mm so far this year (that's with today's
> total as well)
>
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From: Dane Newman [dpn at bigpond.com]
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Subject: aus-wx: Hi Chas
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 07:58:01 +1000
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Hi Chas, welcome to the aussie-weather list, you are the first person we have had from Tassie, welcome and i hope you enjoy it. Dane (Kilsyth, Melbourne)
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From: Paul_Mossman at agd.nsw.gov.au
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Hi Chas! Welcome to the List! Great to see some from tassie joining! It
will be interesting to hear your comments from Strahan with regards to the
westerlies that you get, and a very impressive rain total as well!
regards, Paul at Port Macquarie / Taree Mid North Coast NSW
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:53:30 +1000
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey, me again..
I forgot to mention that the Mary river is in flood once again, although
it's only quite a minor one.. It's at around 8-9m at Gympie causing
minor flooding, but if you've ever seen the Mary in flood you will know
that even a minor flood can be quite spectacular.. I've pasted the
warning below..
RENEWAL OF FLOOD WARNING FOR THE UPPER MARY RIVER
Issued at 4:23pm on Tuesday the 11th of May 1999
by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.
River levels in the Mary River at Gympie are rising slowly and near
their peak
causing minor flooding. River levels are expected to peak later tonight
well
below the moderate flood level of 12 metres.
Upstream of Gympie the river level at Dagun Pocket peaked at 6.62 metres
this
morning, below the minor flood level and is now falling. Minor flooding
is
easing at Cooran on Six Mile Creek and as river levels have started to
fall.
Further upstream in the Mary River river levels are all falling.
Minor flooding is occurring downstream of Gympie at Fishermans Pocket,
which
will peak later tonight. However no significant flooding is expected
further
downstream to Maryborough.
Latest River Heights in metres include : [* denotes automatic station]
Mary R at Bellbird Creek * 2.52m falling at 243pm Tue
11/05/99
Mary R at Kenilworth H/S * 0.96m falling at 248pm Tue
11/05/99
Mary R at Dagun Pocket * 6.42m falling at 232pm Tue
11/05/99
Six Mile Ck at Cooran 6.75m falling slowly at 300pm Tue
11/05/99
Mary R at Gympie Weir * 8.17m rising at 242pm Tue
11/05/99
Mary R at Gympie * 7.63m rising at 232pm Tue
11/05/99
Mary R at Fishermans Pocket * 8.42m rising at 244pm Tue
11/05/99
Mary R at Home Park * 4.04m rising at 231pm Tue
11/05/99
Tinana Ck at Tagigan Rd * 5.14m falling at 240pm Tue
11/05/99
Tinana Ck at Bauple East * 3.12m rising at 232pm Tue
11/05/99
Tinana Ck at Teddington Weir * 9.21m steady at 240pm Tue
11/05/99
Tinana Ck at Tinana Barrage * 2.95m steady at 231pm Tue
11/05/99
Mary R at Maryborough N/A
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From: "L.J. & B. Smail" [gws at pipeline.com.au]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Canberra or Melbourne?
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Chris - You may be interested in the RANGE of severe weather-related events
I have documented in "Weather Wonders of Geelong" (free plug!)since the
start of white settlement in the 1830's. Melbourne may also get close to
this one, but not Canberra: Floods (to within 500 m. of CBD), Drought,
Bushfire (to outer suburbs), Severe storms including, hail, flash floods,
lightning strikes, sea and bay storm damage, strong winds and even
tornadoes), Dust storms and red rain, snow, fog, frosts, ball lightning,
etc. etc.
Regards, Lindsay Smail
At 11:50 AM 11-05-99 +1000, Chris Maunder wrote:
>My memories of Melbourne were bleak and grey. I have no memories of any
>severe storms in Melbourne (was only 7 when I left) but as soon as we
>moved up to Canberra we had half our roof ripped off an a huge storm, and
>there have been a number of roof-ripper storms since (This is going back
>20 years though :).
>
>All in all, though, Canberra is pretty safe. Most of the lightning we get
>seems to hit around the mountains or stay air-to-air - no where near as
>many ground strikes as, say, Syndey. I can only think of one tornado - back
>in '96 way down south in Tharwa. Canberra weather is far more extreme than
>Melbourne though - from -9C in winter to 42C in summer (I think they're the
>record extremes - Blair?) but usually -6/-7 on a good winter morning to
>38 on a good summer day. Foggy in April/May, icy in June/july (watch that
>black ice!) windy in August/Sept then dry with lots of bushfires in the
>summer. We get the odd hailstorm in the storm season (November-March) but
>I've never yet seen any hail damage. Mostly our storms are purely
>ornamental :)
>
>HTH,
>Chris
>
>At 11:21 11/05/99 , you wrote:
>>Hi.. I am new to your mailing list.. and actually new to Australia as well..
>>I am trying to make a comparison between the weather in Canberra and
>>Melbourne.. I would love to take your opinions and advices regarding those
>>two capital cities in particular..
>>
>>Which is more "safe" in your opinion (tonadoes, hail storms, thunderstorm,
>>etc.)??
>>
>>Mira
>
>------------------------------------------------------
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>Administrator CodeGuru - www.codeguru.com
>Technical Consultant Dundas Software - www.dundas.com
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Hi everyone,
I know we're mainly concerned with severe weather, but I couldn't help
noticing the high pressure system which developed on Alice Strings latitude
on the WA-NT border (1 pm 11 May). The furthest north so far this year.
Signs of winter.
Regards, Lindsay Smail
At 04:40 PM 11-05-99 +1000, Jimmy Deguara wrote:
>Hi Jimmy here,
>
>The fog was very thick here in Schofields. I recorded a 0.5mm of fog this
>morning. The highest I have recorded was 0.6mm in November 1987. I would
>say these two values are very similar. The fog this morning was almost
>heavy drizzle with the roads saturated.
>
>Jimmy Deguara
>
>At 08:19 11/05/99 +1000, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>A real pea-souper in Sydney's west this morning - visibility down to 20m I
>>guess. Further east at Parramtta now (8.15am) there is also thick fog, only
>>the third time I have seen it while working here (several years). From the
>>16th floor of the building I work in, mostly blue sky is now visible above,
>>as the murk spreads further east.
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>Michael Bath
>>
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From: "Craig Williams" [tincra at ecn.net.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Boreen Point, Sunhine Coast obs
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:58:02 +1000
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Hi,
Rainfall total has climbed due to the heavy rain on the sunshine coast over
the last couple of days to a big 1722mm from 1st Jan to 12 May.
hmmmm "Sunshine Coast"??????
Cheers....Craig
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From: "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: signs of winter
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:25:52 +1000
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Date: Wednesday, 12 May 1999 9:37
Subject: Re: aus-wx: signs of winter
>Hi everyone,
>I know we're mainly concerned with severe weather, but I couldn't help
>noticing the high pressure system which developed on Alice Strings latitude
>on the WA-NT border (1 pm 11 May). The furthest north so far this year.
>Signs of winter.
>Regards, Lindsay Smail
...and then to possibly make life interesting over the next couple of days,
have a look at the low pressure system quietly sliding SW down along the
coast of NSW *AND* the meridional nature of the 300mb flow over SA &
Victoria !!!!!
Rain??????
Jane ONeill
Bayswater, Melbourne
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From: Chris Maunder [cmaunder at dynamite.com.au]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Canberra or Melbourne?
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Cool! I guess being in Melbourne from ages 0-7 kinda leaves me
slightly Canberra-biased in terms of weather stories .
I remember stories of the flooding that had cars floating down Burke St.
Incredible!
Chris
At 09:17 12/05/99 , you wrote:
>Chris - You may be interested in the RANGE of severe weather-related events
>I have documented in "Weather Wonders of Geelong" (free plug!)since the
>start of white settlement in the 1830's. Melbourne may also get close to
>this one, but not Canberra: Floods (to within 500 m. of CBD), Drought,
>Bushfire (to outer suburbs), Severe storms including, hail, flash floods,
>lightning strikes, sea and bay storm damage, strong winds and even
>tornadoes), Dust storms and red rain, snow, fog, frosts, ball lightning,
>etc. etc.
>Regards, Lindsay Smail
Chris Maunder (Canberra)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/2473/
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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Canberra or Melbourne?
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:58:41 +1000 (EST)
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>
> Cool! I guess being in Melbourne from ages 0-7 kinda leaves me
> slightly Canberra-biased in terms of weather stories .
> I remember stories of the flooding that had cars floating down Burke St.
> Incredible!
Actually, Woden Valley 1971 had much the same rainfall rates, and
there the floating cars took quite a few people with them...
Although I haven't examined the statistics in detail, I wouldn't
think there is too much difference in the frequency of severe
thunderstorms between Melbourne and Canberra (and large hail is rare
in both centres - I've never seen much above 1cm in either).
Blair Trewin
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Hi Lindsay and everyone else,
>
>I know we're mainly concerned with severe weather [snip]
>
You are free and encouraged to talk about any aspect of Australian weather
on this discussion group. Please don't feel that only severe weather =
aussie-weather.
Of course there will be much more mail when major events are occurring, but
I hope that everyone will speak up whenever they have a question or
information that helps us all to learn about weather.
regards, Michael
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From: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net]
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Subject: RE: aus-wx: Boreen Point, Sunhine Coast obs
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:58:38 +1000
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Hi Craig,
Hmm "Liquid Sunshine Coast" I think. What I find quite amazing is that just
100km to the South I have only a fraction of this. e.g., 28mm for April,
79mm for March. Jan & Feb were somewhat better, total YTD at Mt. Crosby
(inconveniently located behind the Southern tip... etc.) is 622mm.
John.
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Hi,
Rainfall total has climbed due to the heavy rain on the sunshine coast over
the last couple of days to a big 1722mm from 1st Jan to 12 May.
hmmmm "Sunshine Coast"??????
Cheers....Craig
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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: aus-wx: Wind in Oklahoma tornado recorded at 512 km/h
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A wind speed of 512 km/h (318 mph) was recorded by a truck-mounted
Doppler radar in one of the Oklahoma tornadoes last week.
This is just below the theoretical F5/F6 cutoff - impressive stuff!
(Having said that, it's only recently that we've had the technology
to measure winds inside tornadoes, and the results might well lead
to a recalibration of the wind-damage relationships in the Fujita
scale).
(By the way, I thought that one of my colleagues was in Oklahoma at
the time, but it turns out he was in Boulder, Colorado on the day).
There's more on this on the Weather Channel's site (www.weather.com).
I was also interested to see that there are research groups chasing
storms in Oklahoma (the university's meteorology department was the
group that took the above-mentioned observation). I'm not aware of
any work of this type in Australia, either past or present - in fact,
there's only a little bit of severe storm research work going on that
I know about.
Blair Trewin
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Hi Chas,
Jimmy here. Welcome to the list and hopefully to ASWA.
Depending on how much of a novice you are or whether you are being humble,
you can check out the following site which gives an insite into the
observational aspects of the weather.
http://www.australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/techniques/index.html
Otherwise, just search around all the various sites and ask questions on
the list. There will always be someone there to answer questions.
Jimmy Deguara
At 10:02 12/05/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Hello
>Im new to the mailing list.
>Ive had great entertainment over the last couple of days with the storm
>chasers!
>I would appreciate your help because Im interested in radar sites for
>Australia and any other Australian sites of interest to a novice.
>
>Chas
>
>ps for those trying to find Strahan we are on the west coast of Tasmania
>at the northern end of Mcquarie Harbour in the roaring fourties with a
>rainfall of 1700mm
>
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Do you get Weather 21 (cable)? Allan Humphreys (presenter) always seems to
mention Strahan...
>From: Chas & Helen Osborn
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>Subject: aus-wx: From Strahan Tasmania
>Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:02:53 +1000
>
>Hello
>Im new to the mailing list.
>Ive had great entertainment over the last couple of days with the storm
>chasers!
>I would appreciate your help because Im interested in radar sites for
>Australia and any other Australian sites of interest to a novice.
>
>Chas
>
>ps for those trying to find Strahan we are on the west coast of Tasmania
>at the northern end of Mcquarie Harbour in the roaring fourties with a
>rainfall of 1700mm
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From: "Ben Tichborne" [tich at netaccess.co.nz]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: GASP is back...
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:04:12 +1200
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Other progs (e.g. the EC) are not quite as dramatic on the cold air
> but still have something there. All are also suggesting some fun for
> NZ late in the week with NW gales ahead of the system, and probably
> some pretty warm temperatures on the lee side of the islands.
I think heavy rain warnings have already been issued for the South Island
West Coast. We've had a warm day (20 degree Celsius max) in Christchurch
today, but clear skies now mean the night is getting cold, but I don't
think we'll get a frost.
BTW, last week's cold blast brought some spectacular weather to
Christchurch - driving rain, hail, gales, snow on the high country, and
even an evening (last Wednesday) thunderstorm. Thunderstorms are somewhat
unusual for the city in such circumstances, but we have had winter
occurrences before - even thunder and lightning during a snowstorm!. (June
11, 1996)
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:46:38 -0700
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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I've started using my full name on this list, just so no-one will get we
Lindsay's confused. :-)
Lindsay Pearce
Michael_Bath at amp.com.au wrote:
>
> Hi Lindsay and everyone else,
>
> >
> >I know we're mainly concerned with severe weather [snip]
> >
>
> You are free and encouraged to talk about any aspect of Australian weather
> on this discussion group. Please don't feel that only severe weather =
> aussie-weather.
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From: "Ben Tichborne" [tich at netaccess.co.nz]
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I remember the only time I ever visited Strahan. It was in late November
1993. The day was sunny and very warm (about 27 degrees celsius max) - must
have been a very unusual day. I've read about that part of Tasmania having
a cold, wet climate. No wonder only the worst criminals were sent to the
penal colony there in the 1820s.
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 20:50:27 +1000
From: Susan Puddifer [susanpud at sydney.healey.com.au]
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Susan from Balmain
Don't forget that those are the weather conditions that most of the criminals
brought to australia at that time would have been used to - just another nice
English summers day to them
Susan
Ben Tichborne wrote:
> I remember the only time I ever visited Strahan. It was in late November
> 1993. The day was sunny and very warm (about 27 degrees celsius max) - must
> have been a very unusual day. I've read about that part of Tasmania having
> a cold, wet climate. No wonder only the worst criminals were sent to the
> penal colony there in the 1820s.
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:18:55 +1000
From: Chas & Helen Osborn [hosborn at tassie.net.au]
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Many thanks for making me welcome and to Jimmy for the Australian
Severe
Weather site, there is so many of the links, to sites, I was looking
for.
Here in Strahan we have had a warm front over us, this produced a
constant but
very light rain that just registered in the rain gauge, the winds are
light.
This is the calm before the storm which is heading our way from the
Southern
Ocean, a cold front with strong to gale force winds Friday, with a very
cold
south westerly change Saturday with our first lot of highland snow for
the
month. It usually doesn't snow in Strahan at sea level, we usually get
soft
hale in the cold stream behind the front, but the roads out have snow
when its
down to 600m and blocked south to Hobart down to 400m and north to
Burnie down
to 300m (usually once a year we are cut off).
On the subject of tornadoes. 1987 a storm made a path of destruction in
Strahan
and continued to Queenstown 20 km away. Its all bush between the two
towns so
its path could be easily followed. It was before my time but I will try
and find
out the time of year. The lack of thunderstorms is one thing I noticed
when I
moved here.
Chas
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:02:05 +0100
From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]
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Susan Puddifer wrote:
> Susan from Balmain
>
> Don't forget that those are the weather conditions that most of the criminals
> brought to australia at that time would have been used to - just another nice
> English summers day to them
it's a nice English spring day here (Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 55N 0130W) - temp 15
c w/showers (single cell tstorms going to about 10000, weak, fibrous anvils)
wind SW about 15 kt with gusts in showers.
(:
Les expat Scot living in England
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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx:Qld/NSW Depression
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Even more of a letdown here in the Illawarra, it stayed dry and sunny. I
could see the cirrus associated with the low edging this way late yesterday
and my hopes were high. When I awoke this morning the cirrus had cleared to
the E/SE and I knew that this low was New Zealand bound and a lost cause for
us.
Michael
> I think you can just about take 'QLD' out of the topic now...what a
> letdown! Certainly was not the situation I expected there to be, the
> rain litterally "skipped" Brisbane altogether. Oh well...there goes my
> hope of more flood photo's.
>
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