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001 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] Brisbane Winter Westerlies Cause Minor Damage
002 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] NE Southern Tablelands Wx
003 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] Current Obs. - Plus Clarification of wind at Taree Ap
004 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au] Current Obs. - Plus Clarification of wind at Taree
005 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] Brisbane Winter Westerlies (ECL)
006 "Andrew Miskelly" [amiskelly at ozemail.com.au] NE Southern Tablelands Wx
007 "Peter Tristram" [petertri at midcoast.com.au] Bellinger Area
008 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au] Bellinger Area
009 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au] Apologies
010 Don White [donwhite at ozemail.com.au] Rain
011 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] AVN and MRF changes + new sites
012 Phil Bagust [paisley at cobweb.com.au] SA Funnel cloud (!)
013 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] SA Funnel cloud (!)
014 Matt Smith[disarm at braenet.com.au] 3D MSLP coloured models for Australia
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001
From: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net]
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Subject: RE: aus-wx: Brisbane Winter Westerlies Cause Minor Damage
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:56:03 +1000
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Hi Anthony,
Still howling at Mt. Crosby at 1:50am. Midnight temp was 15.5C under a
clear sky which is mild, all things considering - no doubt wind chill
factor is up, although so is humidity at around 60% - high for Westerley -
guess it's because this is air circulating quite tightly around the ECL
thus the air stream probably came onshore around Coffs. A true winter
westerley would come across much of Southern Australia and be very dry,
<15%. Can't see it getting sub 10C here tonight.
John.
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From: Anthony Cornelius [SMTP:cyclone at flatrate.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 1999 15:06
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Subject: aus-wx: Brisbane Winter Westerlies Cause Minor Damage
Hi all,
The radio has just said there's power blackouts near Albany Creek and
surrounding suburbs due to a large tree falling down over powerlines.
It's been constantly gusty here, 15-20kn - max gust of around 30kn
though - nothing absolutely huge.
Applethorpe has been 8C from 1-2pm, and 9C before that - it hasn't got
up to 10C yet today!!! Toowoomba is 9C, I have 18.3C here right now,
after a max of 20.1C - it'll be a cold night, high single
figures...brrrr, but when the SW'ers lighten off (and last time I looked
the models are going for lighter SW'ers) then it'll be even colder :-(
Anthony from Brisbane
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:43:49 -0700
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Nothing better except for sound of snow falling on the roof. We have tin
too, or aluminium actually.
Lindsay P.
Andrew Miskelly wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here is Taralga the rain and drizzle is continuing. Everything's shrowded in
> mist, it's fantastic. We had 36mm in the 24h to 9am and most of that would
> have fallen last night with rain continuously drumming on this tin roof,
> nothing better! Winds are now about 45 Km/h and gusty.
>
> Sydney radar seems to have dried up a bit, although I know the rain here
> isn't being picked up - low cloud.
>
> Have fun all you coastal rain hogs!
>
> Andrew.
> --
> Andrew Miskelly
> Illawarra/Southern Tablelands, NSW
> amiskelly at ozemail.com.au
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:16:23 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au]
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Hi Michael and all,
While 90 knots is possible, I personally don't/cannot buy it - not when
the highest gust was 45kn 83km/h). There's too much of a difference
compared to 166km/h. One thing that is often forgotten/not understood
is that wind power is the square of the initial multiplication strength
(bad wording, sorry...)
But basically, 200km/h is not twice as strong as 100km/h - but 4 times
as strong (200/100 = 2, then square '2' and = 4)
This would also mean that this gust would be 4 times stronger then any
other gust recorded on land.
At 166km/h - you'd expect lots of trees down, rooves blown off, and a
flood of damage reports. The ECL only went down to 999hPa (as far as I
know) and while ECL's have tight pressure gradients with highs, and do
not need to go down to great depths in pressure to have strong winds,
for an ECL I would be thinking 975hPa would be needed to give a gust of
90kn. 166km/h is at the top of the Cat 2 scale for TC's.
The only thing that I could think of, would be a 'coldie' - such a
tornado would not be unexpected in a very highly sheared environment -
'coldies' and TC-related tornadoes are very similar, they both require
highly sheared environments. Tornadoes on tropical cyclones are very
common, although generally are not mesocyclonically induced (although
there have been exceptions). Shear at 850mb was 30-35kn, with some of
it up to 35-40kn from the AVN analysis yesterday.
Undoubtedly, the weather can do almost anything unexpected or
unexplained, however unfortunately I still cannot believe 90kn/166kmh
Just my two bob,
Anthony Cornelius
Michael Thompson wrote:
>
> Although 90 knots is possible in an East Coast low, you would also expect
> that sort of reading on an exposed cape or headland, my experience is that
> ECL winds die off very quickly the further you move from the coast. Taree is
> quite a few K's inland. But who is to say that it did not occur ?
>
> Michael
>
> >
> Perhaps they have a separate Dines installation, but their AWS
> certainly does not confirm this. The highest 10 min sustained speed
> reported since midnight has been 19 knots at midday, while the highest
> gust has been 33 knots at 08.40. The reports have been coming in
> consistently around 15 to 18 knots sustained with gusts in the high
> 20s.
>
> Any further information on how the 90 knot gust was measured would be
> helpful, and where the measuring device is located with respect to the
> AWS.
>
> Laurier Williams
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Hi Jimmy here,
Whilst I perhaps believe that the reading was in km/h rather than knots, I
don't totally disregard this reading. If the gust was reported from a
localised storm that moved overland, it is possible but Paul needs to
supply more information. Like Anthony said, we need evidence of damage and
so on from that area and whether there was a storm associated with the
gust. For instance, during the 1986 major flood ECL, a report came in from
Pendle Hill which is located well inland from the coast. The report was
described as a localised very intense wind by the media. I found out later
that it was reported as a tornado by the BoM. But damage was obviously
reported with this event.
Jimmy Deguara
At 09:16 15/07/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Michael and all,
>
>While 90 knots is possible, I personally don't/cannot buy it - not when
>the highest gust was 45kn 83km/h). There's too much of a difference
>compared to 166km/h. One thing that is often forgotten/not understood
>is that wind power is the square of the initial multiplication strength
>(bad wording, sorry...)
>
>But basically, 200km/h is not twice as strong as 100km/h - but 4 times
>as strong (200/100 = 2, then square '2' and = 4)
>
>This would also mean that this gust would be 4 times stronger then any
>other gust recorded on land.
>
>At 166km/h - you'd expect lots of trees down, rooves blown off, and a
>flood of damage reports. The ECL only went down to 999hPa (as far as I
>know) and while ECL's have tight pressure gradients with highs, and do
>not need to go down to great depths in pressure to have strong winds,
>for an ECL I would be thinking 975hPa would be needed to give a gust of
>90kn. 166km/h is at the top of the Cat 2 scale for TC's.
>
>The only thing that I could think of, would be a 'coldie' - such a
>tornado would not be unexpected in a very highly sheared environment -
>'coldies' and TC-related tornadoes are very similar, they both require
>highly sheared environments. Tornadoes on tropical cyclones are very
>common, although generally are not mesocyclonically induced (although
>there have been exceptions). Shear at 850mb was 30-35kn, with some of
>it up to 35-40kn from the AVN analysis yesterday.
>
>Undoubtedly, the weather can do almost anything unexpected or
>unexplained, however unfortunately I still cannot believe 90kn/166kmh
>
>Just my two bob,
>
>Anthony Cornelius
>
>Michael Thompson wrote:
> >
> > Although 90 knots is possible in an East Coast low, you would also expect
> > that sort of reading on an exposed cape or headland, my experience is that
> > ECL winds die off very quickly the further you move from the coast.
> Taree is
> > quite a few K's inland. But who is to say that it did not occur ?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > >
> > Perhaps they have a separate Dines installation, but their AWS
> > certainly does not confirm this. The highest 10 min sustained speed
> > reported since midnight has been 19 knots at midday, while the highest
> > gust has been 33 knots at 08.40. The reports have been coming in
> > consistently around 15 to 18 knots sustained with gusts in the high
> > 20s.
> >
> > Any further information on how the 90 knot gust was measured would be
> > helpful, and where the measuring device is located with respect to the
> > AWS.
> >
> > Laurier Williams
> > Australian Weather Links and News
> > http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wbc/
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From: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net]
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Subject: RE: aus-wx: Brisbane Winter Westerlies (ECL)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:17:04 +1000
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Hi again,
As an update to this, min in fact only reached 13.0C (forecast was 6.0C),
and believe it or not.. it RAINED early this morning, at 6:00am, 0.5mm and
a small slug (!) in the rain guage. Noted at 9:00am that the Westerley was
still blowing but had moderated considerably - but go up a couple of
thousand feet and there was cloud drifting in from the SE. Now 11:00am and
is dead calm with more cloud & drizzle patches approaching from S/SE.
Either the ECL has taken off for NZ , or simply collapsed.
I thought the Satpics yesterday arvo were good - you could see the really
tight circulation just off NE NSW. Seems to me that it was/is part of a
very complex low, with this ECL forming to the West of the main trough
line. From the radar obs, which showed two distinct rain bands, I wouldn't
be surprised if there was second weak low down off the coast near Newcastle
which initially was centered on the 'rotating thunderstorm' observed two
days ago. Comments anyone...
Regards
John.
>snip
Hi Anthony,
Still howling at Mt. Crosby at 1:50am. Midnight temp was 15.5C under a
clear sky which is mild, all things considering - no doubt wind chill
factor is up, although so is humidity at around 60% - high for Westerley -
guess it's because this is air circulating quite tightly around the ECL
thus the air stream probably came onshore around Coffs. A true winter
westerley would come across much of Southern Australia and be very dry,
<15%. Can't see it getting sub 10C here tonight.
John.
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From: "Andrew Miskelly" [amiskelly at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: NE Southern Tablelands Wx
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:22:41 +1000
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Yes, it's quite ironic that snow sounds so good on the roof because if it's
any good you can't hear it. hahahah! We do have thick ceilings though...
Andrew.
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From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Date: Thursday, 15 July 1999 9:06
Subject: Re: aus-wx: NE Southern Tablelands Wx
>Nothing better except for sound of snow falling on the roof. We have tin
>too, or aluminium actually.
>
>Lindsay P.
>
>Andrew Miskelly wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is Taralga the rain and drizzle is continuing. Everything's shrowded
in
>> mist, it's fantastic. We had 36mm in the 24h to 9am and most of that
would
>> have fallen last night with rain continuously drumming on this tin roof,
>> nothing better! Winds are now about 45 Km/h and gusty.
>>
>> Sydney radar seems to have dried up a bit, although I know the rain here
>> isn't being picked up - low cloud.
>>
>> Have fun all you coastal rain hogs!
>>
>> Andrew.
>> --
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>> Illawarra/Southern Tablelands, NSW
>> amiskelly at ozemail.com.au
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From: "Peter Tristram" [petertri at midcoast.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Bellinger Area
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:32:47 +1000
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Things hotted up yesterday arvo and last night - roads covered with a lot of branches and leaves this morning, still a lot of rain - 73mm to 9:00am and very heavy again at the moment. Minor flooding in the Bellinger - Repton Waters Caravan Park was evacuated last night and the water was still in it this morning. The beach has copped a caning - 3-5m drop from the dunes and an enormous amount of froth from the enless pounding and dirty water from the river. The rain is actually much heavier today than yesterday but it mightn't continue. I wonder what the Coffs Radar shows.
Peter
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Hi Peter,
Have you joined ASWA?? Because if you haven't, the radar service is worth
joining for. For $30 joining, you get $600 worth of Bureau radar. I will
supply the latest image for you attached. Just letting you know of what is
available.
Jimmy Deguara
At 11:32 15/07/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Things hotted up yesterday arvo and last night - roads covered with a lot
>of branches and leaves this morning, still a lot of rain - 73mm to 9:00am
>and very heavy again at the moment. Minor flooding in the Bellinger -
>Repton Waters Caravan Park was evacuated last night and the water was
>still in it this morning. The beach has copped a caning - 3-5m drop from
>the dunes and an enormous amount of froth from the enless pounding and
>dirty water from the river. The rain is actually much heavier today than
>yesterday but it mightn't continue. I wonder what the Coffs Radar shows.
>
>Peter
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:55:38 +1000
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Subject: aus-wx: Apologies
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Sorry every1, the message was supposed to go directly to Peter. I hang my
head down in shame.
Jimmy (croaching in the corner and he doesn't have to go down that far
either...)
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:23:27 +1000
From: Don White [donwhite at ozemail.com.au]
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With the rain easing along the NSW coast, it appears that the top fall
in the 48 hours to 9 am this morning was Comboyne with 109 + 158 = 267
mm; Other heavy falls included Nambuuc Heads 175 + 69 = 244; Telegraph
Point 153 + 85 = 238; Glennifer (near Bellingen) 64 + 171 = 235; Lorne
99 + 125 = 224 and dorrigo 69 + 149 = 218 mm.
In the south, Darkes Forest near Wollongong had 238 mm in the 72 hours
to 9am
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:43:04 +1000
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey Ben from Brisbane here..
Some people may be interested in this.. this URL has information on
changes that are due to occur to the AVN and MRF models very soon..
although i am not 100% sure that these changes will benefit Australia..
given that AVN and MRF are global models i can only assume that they
will.. I practically like the number of levels being changed from 16 to
24..
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrhq/99TAs/9911/index.html
Also the AVN and MRF raw data sites that some of us may use are also
undergoing a facelift.. the new sites should be available by this summer
(so i am told), and should be much much more user friendly..
John Woodbridge wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> As an update to this, min in fact only reached 13.0C (forecast was 6.0C),
> and believe it or not.. it RAINED early this morning, at 6:00am, 0.5mm and
> a small slug (!) in the rain guage. Noted at 9:00am that the Westerley was
> still blowing but had moderated considerably - but go up a couple of
> thousand feet and there was cloud drifting in from the SE. Now 11:00am and
> is dead calm with more cloud & drizzle patches approaching from S/SE.
> Either the ECL has taken off for NZ , or simply collapsed.
>
> I thought the Satpics yesterday arvo were good - you could see the really
> tight circulation just off NE NSW. Seems to me that it was/is part of a
> very complex low, with this ECL forming to the West of the main trough
> line. From the radar obs, which showed two distinct rain bands, I wouldn't
> be surprised if there was second weak low down off the coast near Newcastle
> which initially was centered on the 'rotating thunderstorm' observed two
> days ago. Comments anyone...
>
> Regards
> John.
> >snip
>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> Still howling at Mt. Crosby at 1:50am. Midnight temp was 15.5C under a
> clear sky which is mild, all things considering - no doubt wind chill
> factor is up, although so is humidity at around 60% - high for Westerley -
> guess it's because this is air circulating quite tightly around the ECL
> thus the air stream probably came onshore around Coffs. A true winter
> westerley would come across much of Southern Australia and be very dry,
> <15%. Can't see it getting sub 10C here tonight.
>
> John.
>
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From: Phil Bagust [paisley at cobweb.com.au]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: SA Funnel cloud (!)
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Hey all,
Let me tell you about today. I was out at Gawler Plain, about 50km north
of Adelaide, doing a native vegetation survey with a friend. It was a mild
cloudy day with a northerly airstream and the occasional light shower out
of thickening mid level cloud.
Around 1.30pm I noticed some vertical development and a lowered base quite
a distance away probably over northern St Vincent's gulf. I took a snap
but didn't think it would amount to anything. We went to lunch and were
inside for about an hour.
On going outside and heading back to Adelaide I couldn't believe what came
into view! This thing had drifted much closer, had a dark lowered base,
and what looked like inflow bands. I got my camera out. No sooner had I
done this than a funnel dropped out of this lowered base!! I couldn't
believe it! I could see little bits of disconnected scud swinging around
this thing! I took 2 snaps through the car window (please let them turn
out) and just as we were waiting for the thing to drop to the ground, it
retracted into the cloudbase!!
The funnel had lasted perhaps 2 minutes. We tracked the cloud all the way
back to Adelaide. It had some interesting base structure, but it developed
a weak precipitation cascade offshore and never looked like dropping a
funnel again.
What more can I say? There was no severe weather around Adelaide today,
and the radar offered only weak yellow shows over the gulf. Needless to
say I'll post the pics when they are developed! Did anyone else spot this
sucker? Andrew????
Phil 'Paisley' Bagust
paisley at cobweb.com.au
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:14:33 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: SA Funnel cloud (!)
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Hi Phil,
While reading this, it immediately reminded me of a similar event I
witnessed last year in September.
http://www.flatrate.net.au/~cyclone/1998sept.jpg <-- This is the photo.
It occurred under a relatively lower Ns base (as you can see on the
picture). I know many people do not believe this was a funnel/tornado -
however, afer long hard thought, I believe it was.
It lasted for 5 minutes, before it went out of view (dad refused to stop
the car &*(&^&*(^(!$ him) but, it was moving horizontally across the
ground, and as you said, you could see the little 'bits of cloud' moving
around - at the time I didn't notice rotation, nor was I looking for
rotation. My eyes were just glued to this thing, and I had totally
unexpected it! At times, it changed shape slightly (on a slight slant)
but other then that, the shape remained fairly uniform.
This to my knowledge, occurred as a cold pool of air.
Anyway - I'll let everyone judge for themselves
Anthony from Brisbane
Phil Bagust wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Let me tell you about today. I was out at Gawler Plain, about 50km north
> of Adelaide, doing a native vegetation survey with a friend. It was a mild
> cloudy day with a northerly airstream and the occasional light shower out
> of thickening mid level cloud.
>
> Around 1.30pm I noticed some vertical development and a lowered base quite
> a distance away probably over northern St Vincent's gulf. I took a snap
> but didn't think it would amount to anything. We went to lunch and were
> inside for about an hour.
>
> On going outside and heading back to Adelaide I couldn't believe what came
> into view! This thing had drifted much closer, had a dark lowered base,
> and what looked like inflow bands. I got my camera out. No sooner had I
> done this than a funnel dropped out of this lowered base!! I couldn't
> believe it! I could see little bits of disconnected scud swinging around
> this thing! I took 2 snaps through the car window (please let them turn
> out) and just as we were waiting for the thing to drop to the ground, it
> retracted into the cloudbase!!
>
> The funnel had lasted perhaps 2 minutes. We tracked the cloud all the way
> back to Adelaide. It had some interesting base structure, but it developed
> a weak precipitation cascade offshore and never looked like dropping a
> funnel again.
>
> What more can I say? There was no severe weather around Adelaide today,
> and the radar offered only weak yellow shows over the gulf. Needless to
> say I'll post the pics when they are developed! Did anyone else spot this
> sucker? Andrew????
>
> Phil 'Paisley' Bagust
> paisley at cobweb.com.au
> www.cobweb.com.au/~paisley
>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:19:45 +1000
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From: Matt Smith[disarm at braenet.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: 3D MSLP coloured models for Australia
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Hi everyone
A couple of weeks ago I emailed Timothy Hume from METVUW (Meteorology at
Victoria University of Wellington), after seeing his 3D MSLP coloured
models for the SW Pacific (New Zealand), I asked him if he could possibly
add Australia to them, and he has!
http://www.gphs.vuw.ac.nz/meteorology/current/wafs/wafs.html
That is the site, really worth the look.
Matt Smith
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