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Australian Weather Mailing List Archives: Monday, 2 August 1999

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001 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au]    Annual General Meeting
002 Sam Barricklow [k5kj at pulse.net]                Training Materials on the Web
003 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   Big Frost
004 Phil Bagust [paisley at cobweb.com.au]            Big Frost
005 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net]             Lightning Detection
006 "Patrick Tobin" [pdtobin at hotmail.com]          Re Lightning Detections
007 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.  Here it is, folks!!
008 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]        Cold night in SE Australia, but probably no records
009 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]        Here it is, folks!!
010 wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams)          Cold night in SE Australia, but probably no records
011 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.  Global MRF Models
012 steve baynham [bayns at nor.com.au]               july rainfall
013 steve baynham [bayns at nor.com.au]               new weather loops
014 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.  Here it is, folks!!
015 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au]    july rainfall
016 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]        july rainfall
017 Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au]         A matter of concern..
018 Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au]         Where our winter's gone..or where it might be coming from?
019 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]              new weather loops
020 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]           A matter of concern..
021 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]              SE QLD Storms + 
022 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]   Some Cb way to SE of Wollongong
023 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au]          Minutes of ASWA meeting
024 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au]          A matter of concern..
025 "Marty" [martyp at dynamite.com.au]               Fw:      old tales predicting weather

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001

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 00:24:10 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au]
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Hi all,

I must say that I did thoroughly enjoy myself!  It was an memorable experience
meeting many new people, putting faces + characters to the names on the list, and
not to mention talking to some of the Australian storm chasing 'greats' of
Australia!
I hope that people will containue to make the effort to attend all future AGM's, I
know that I'll personally be attending many more.

I did the minutes at the AGM, however I've spent 14hrs in a car/on the road - and
I'm rather tired right now, so they'll be done in the morning.  My apologies for
this!

Jimmy is quite right though, everyone was interacting with each other as if they
had known each other for years.  I'm looking forward to the 'end of year chase' to
meet up with everyone again.

Thanks to Michael Bath for his very friendly hospitallity on Friday night, and to
everyone in Sydney who organised the AGM.

Anthony Cornelius

Jimmy Deguara wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> As you all know, there was the First ASWA Annual General Meeting last
> night. Since the venue was set up differently than anticipated, it made
> communication difficult and overall it not very comfortable. But in light
> of the constraints of time and location, it was better than nothing.
> Perhaps a lesson can be learnt for future meetings. Nevertheless, those who
> attended bonded together very quickly as if they had known each other for
> many years. There were albums with photos to be shown and stories to be shared.
>
> After dinner, the meeting commenced with the normal introduction and
> President's address given by Michael Bath. Michael Scollay gave the usually
> excellent Treasurer's Report. Then the discussion led to the main part of
> the evening, The Elections.
>
> As part of the elections, several existing rules had to be changed to a
> more appropriate set for ASWA as a national organisation. Although we will
> wait for Anthony to get back to Brisbane and type up the notes, one
> important change is in the structure of the committee. The rule now states
> that the committee will be a national committee with others in other states
> to become more involved in the committee. Another important change was to
> allow voting and nominations by proxy. More details will come from
> Anthony's notes later but this is both a huge step forward but also a
> challenge for ASWA to adopt these changes. There won't be too many
> organisations that have adopted such a structure.
>
> Now the elections were carried out and the following positions were elected
> unopposed:
>
> I am now President, Michael Thompson  Vice President, Michael Scollay
> Treasurer, and Michael Bath Secretary, The committee six nominated and
> therefore elected   Matt Smith, Matthew Piper, Ross Portas, Keith Barnett,
> and David Croan. Paul Graham was elected as a liaison officer (communicates
> with Bureau and other organisations eg AMOS etc).
>
> Jimmy Deguara
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------
> Jimmy Deguara
> Vice President ASWA
> from Schofields, Sydney
> e-mail:  jimmyd at ozemail.com.au
> homepage with Michael Bath
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Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 08:10:45 -0500
From: Sam Barricklow [k5kj at pulse.net]
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Subject: aus-wx: Training Materials on the Web
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I just added new selections to my "training" web page for storm spotters
and chasers.  Take a look by going to:

http://www.k5kj.net/noframe.htm#Information

and then selecting Training Materials and Essays.

Sam Barricklow
http://www.thestormshop.com/

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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 07:08:38 -0700
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Heavy frost in Blackheath on Monday morning!

Ice is covering trees some four metres above the ground. The whole area
is white, very white at 6:30 this morning.

We only had a minimum of zero at my station (one of the highest places
in the area - so we don't get much below say -2, -3,) but the day before
I recorded a max of 7.5 under the influence of a chilly southerly wind.
Overnight, it was very still and reached near zero very quickly.

Reckon the hollows around here got much colder than Zero though. The
frost down there would be insane, I'd reckon.

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>Heavy frost in Blackheath on Monday morning!

Also cold in Adelaide!  My outside thermometer was just below 0 at 7.15am.
Ice on the ground.  When I tried to hose off some of my more tender plants
to prevent frost damage, I found that the hose was frozen solid too!

I'd expect the oficial minimum tem to come in at the +1, +2 degree range.

Phil 'Paisley' Bagust
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From: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net]
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Subject: RE: aus-wx: Lightning Detection
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:16:01 +1000
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Hi Anthony, Michael,

Indeed very interesting.  Central Africa looks like the place to be, what a 
blast!  It would be interesting to get a month by month picture to see when 
and how the activity peaks.  Interesting also is how quiet SW WA is, so 
while they may get a relatively large number of coldies - there is little 
in the way of intense thunderstorms.

John.

-----Original Message-----
>From:	Michael Thompson [SMTP:michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
>Sent:	Friday, 30 July 1999 19:19
>To:	aussie-weather at world.std.com
>Subject:	Re: aus-wx: Lightning Detection

A very interesting little map you found all the same. Interesting to note 
is
how the yellow of SE Australia extends seaward some kilometres, which kind
of reinforces what I thought for many years. Also that there is a patch of
higher activity in line with approx the NW slopes of NSW / Darling Downs -
interesting for our EOY storm chase.

The Amazon is not as ' hot ' as I would have thought, but the medium - high
activity extends well down into almost Patagonia, I have always thought 
that
the border areas of Argentina / Paraguay must get tornadoes.

Michael





----- Original Message -----
>From: Anthony Cornelius 
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>Sent: Friday, 30 July 1999 10:49
>Subject: aus-wx: Lightning Detection


> Hi all,
>
> I found this site today that has some (partially free) lightning tracker
> images for AU (well, the globe) it's not the best...but it's worth a
> visit.  Look at "browse OTD data"
>
> http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/otd/
>
> Anthony Cornlius
>
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John,

If you have a look at the Quicktime movie available on the site
at http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/otd/images/yr_ltg_map.qt
you get a month by month by month breakdown of storms.

It is impressive to see the relatively rapid switch in
storm activity between hemispheres as the respective
summers commence.

Also SW WA looks more impressive during the few months
of their storm season (winter) than when masked by
being totalled across a twelve month period.

The site is certainly an interesting find.

Another fine day in Canberra after a cool start at
minus 6.

Patrick


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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:33:56 +1000
From: Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.au]
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Les Crossan wrote:
> 
> Here it is, well almost.
> 
> ... http://www.radar.ethz.ch/archiv_990727.html

With corrected translation of;
---
27. July 1999: Thunderstorm within Bereich des Saxetentales
(Saxententales Area/Municipality/Province).

The Canyoning misfortune near Interlaken in Bernese within
nearby mountainous country was caused by a thunderstorm, 
which unloaded itself between 16 and 17 o'clock over the 
upper Bereich des Saxetentales. The following picture
is a magnified window from a larger radar image. This 
shows the radar-estimated rain total between 16 and 17
o' clock. "light blue" means a rain total of 10-20 mm, and 
"dark-blue", a rain total of 20-40 mm means. Rain totals of
this order of magnitude within one hour are by no means 
rare, are always local and reoccur with thunderstorms.
With this thunderstorm the water collected itself very
fast in the valley soil. This finally led to sudden and
catastrophic swelling of the Saxetenbaches.

The example shows outstanding possibilities for the 
monitoring strong precipitation using weather radar.
Despite the quite large distance between the accident
region and the ETH radar (approx. 100 km), the thunderstorm
was well defined. Radar measurements can be used to derive
short period forecasts and warnings in basically and 
practically "real time". When available, weather radar
can therefore contribute to avoid similar disasters.
---

Note: trouble with the translation of local terms
(perhaps slang) of;

1) "eindr�cklich die hervorragenden" and
2) "�hnliche Ungl�cke zu vermeiden".

which mean something like;

1) "the outstanding eindruecklich" - don't know "eindr�cklich". 
2) "avoiding similar Ungluecke" - don't know "Ungl�cke":-(

Thus, the above is not a truely literal translation.

Michael Scollay       mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: aus-wx: Cold night in SE Australia, but probably no records
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It was a cold night in SA, northern Victoria and much of New South
Wales. Quite a few sites got close to August records, but none that
I saw broke them. Canberra had -6, Charlottes Pass -13, Wagga -5, 
Mildura -2 and Adelaide +2. Yunta Airport got -5, 1.0 off the SA 
August record (and Yongala, the other traditional SA cold spot, 
hadn't reported last time I checked, so there is hope yet). Another
notable SA observation was -4.0 at Roxby Downs.

Adelaide's observation is only their lowest since 1994 (a very cold
August), but is, as far as I can tell, the seventh coldest August
night in the record (combining the two Adelaide sites, which isn't
strictly valid).

It looks like the frosty spell will continue for several days.

Blair Trewin
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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Here it is, folks!!
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> 
> Les Crossan wrote:
> > 
> > Here it is, well almost.
> > 
> > ... http://www.radar.ethz.ch/archiv_990727.html
> 
(snip)

> 1) "the outstanding eindruecklich" - don't know "eindr�cklich". 
> 2) "avoiding similar Ungluecke" - don't know "Ungl�cke":-(

'Unglueck' = 'accident' or 'disaster'. 

Blair Trewin
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From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams)
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cold night in SE Australia, but probably no records
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 02:48:38 GMT
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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:06:09 +1000 (EST), Blair Trewin
 wrote:

> Yongala, the other traditional SA cold spot, 
>hadn't reported last time I checked, so there is hope yet

Yongala came in with -5 rounded. August record is -6.0 I believe.


-- 
Laurier Williams
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 12:11:48 +1000
From: Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.au]
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[snip]

Ummmph:-( I've given up on most already made graphical MRF
stuff and lately considering giving up MRF itself due to an
extreme lack of realistic correllation 5-10 days out. That's
a bit harsh, I must admit. Anyhow, I've never had a failure
with http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html where you can
roll-your-own-maps with the models available. There are
many other sites that allow this, but I have found this
one to have the bast performance from where I sit in the
internet access scheme of things. If there is any problem 
with READY, it is usually found to belong to NCEP, the 
owners and operators of the models and computing facilities.
The other reliable site I have found is 
http://grads.iges.org/ though lately, the MRF run has had 
the occasional local stuff-up. This could be due and 
probably because of NCEP production of incomplete MRF 
datasets. When the run is stuffed-up, it is often the 
geopotential heights that suffer. When this occurs, the 
COLA MRF map generation will fail. By going back to the 
READY site, you not only get access to raw datasets of 
particular variables, but also to NCEP model run status.
This means one can work around the occasional NCEP
stuff-up.

Michael Scollay       mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Subject: aus-wx: july rainfall
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Stephens (gold coast) july rainfall

1st  - 41mm
9th  - 21mm
11th - 8mm
15th - 2mm
24th - 13mm
25th - 0.5mm
26th - 15mm
27th - 4.5mm
28th - 0.5mm
29th - 7mm

total = 112.5mm

ps thanx to everyone who attended and organized the inaugural ASWA AGM.
well worth the travel!
steve from gold coast


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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:38:23 +1000
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hey all,
have put these together using ULEAD gif animator.
hopefully they will help us forecast weather by getting to know the trends.
new images will be added, so eventually i will have a week long loop, if
avn don't have long delays:( can't do much about the scale changes, but am
working on it!!
hope yas find it useful:)

Cape
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000cape.gif

Lifted Index
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000lftx.gif

Mean seal level & 1000 - 500 thickness
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000mslthick.gif

Precipitation 0 - 6hr
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000rain.gif

2 metre Relative humidity
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000rh2m.gif

Surface winds
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000wind.gif

500 heights and Absolute vorticity
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/500hgtabsvort.gif

500 relative humidity
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/500rh.gif

500 temperatures
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/500temps.gif

i will be adding todays 00z and 06z later tonight after work.
cyas
steve

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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:06:38 +1000
From: Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.au]
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Blair Trewin wrote on Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:17:29 +1000 (EST):
> 
> > Les Crossan wrote on Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:13:58 +0100:
> > >
> > > Here it is, well almost.
> > >
> > > ... http://www.radar.ethz.ch/archiv_990727.html
> >
> (snip)
>
> Michael Scollay wrote on Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:33:56 +1000
> 
> > 1) "the outstanding eindruecklich" - don't know "eindr�cklich".
> > 2) "avoiding similar Ungluecke" - don't know "Ungl�cke":-(
> 
> 'Unglueck' = 'accident' or 'disaster'.

Thanks for that, Blair. I hoped that was the answer since I
translated these phrases as follows;

1) "Das Beispiel zeigt eindr�cklich die hervorragenden M�glichkeiten
zur Ueberwachung von Starkniederschl�gen mittels Wetterradar."

Literally translated as...

"The example shows "eindr�ckliche" the outstanding possibilities 
for the monitoring of strong precipitation by means of weather
radar."

Which I translated as...

"The example shows outstanding possibilities for the monitoring
of strong precipitation using weather radar."

"eindr�cklich" might be local slang describing a group of 
people or even some function of an organisation.

2) "Radarmessungen und daraus abgeleitete Kurzfristvorhersagen
und Warnungen sind grunds�tzlich praktisch in "Echtzeit" verf�gbar
und k�nnen deshalb dazu beitragen, �hnliche Ungl�cke zu vermeiden."

Literally translated as...

"Radar measurements and from it derived short period forecasts
and warnings are basically practically in " real time " available
and can therefore contribute to avoid similar "Ungl�cke"."

Which I translated as...

"Radar measurements can be used to derive short period forecasts
and warnings in basically and practically "real time". When 
available, weather radar can therefore contribute to avoid
similar disasters."

Both "Disaster" and "Accident" have Formal German translations
to "Unfall" but I would say that "Ungl�cke" is a specific type
of disaster, possibly related to similar English terms such as 
"Gluten" or better still "Glutton" to describe a really bad 
disaster rather than just a normal one. I hope that's the 
drift...

P.S. For JON. Despite long & detailed post, this took 12 mins
which is a long post in my terms:-)

Michael Scollay       mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 17:32:26 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au]
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Hi all,

I've had 139.1mm of rain in July, more than double the average of 62mm.  I've
had a total of 1055.1mm of rain this year, the average is 1187.9mm.  Although,
our NE NSW counterparts are well ahead of this!

The august average is 41mm, our second driest month (September is our driest,
with only 33mm).  The records for these months are 126.3mm and 89.6mm
respectively.  It'll be interesting to see if the average drying trend takes
place, or if it continues to be wet.  One thing is for sure, and that's SE QLD
(and also NE NSW) will be in big trouble if we get another very wet summer.
Everything is STILL saturated.

I think it is interesting to note that the second highest rainfall record (for
a month) in Brisbane, is in June, the third is May.  Could this coincide with
the fact that La Nina's effects do not generally take place until April-May of
the following year (but possibly later for Brisbane?)  I'm just throwing
around some somewhat uneducated ideas around here!  So if some one has any
information/suggestions, please say something! :)

Anthony Cornelius

steve baynham wrote:

> Stephens (gold coast) july rainfall
>
> 1st  - 41mm
> 9th  - 21mm
> 11th - 8mm
> 15th - 2mm
> 24th - 13mm
> 25th - 0.5mm
> 26th - 15mm
> 27th - 4.5mm
> 28th - 0.5mm
> 29th - 7mm
>
> total = 112.5mm
>
> ps thanx to everyone who attended and organized the inaugural ASWA AGM.
> well worth the travel!
> steve from gold coast
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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: july rainfall
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:49:46 +1000 (EST)
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Melbourne Regional Office 17.8mm for July. 9th lowest total in a 
145-year record. Four of the eight lower totals (1976,1979,1982,1994)
have been in the last 25 years (and 1997 was 11th).

Lowest monthly total in SE Australia appears to be 3.6mm at 
Adaminaby - although I haven't checked out the accuracy of this 
total yet.

Blair Trewin
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:31:32 +1000
From: Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au]
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I'm sorry that the following is not directly weather-related but I have
just received, gratuitously and totally unsolicited, pornographic email
from some wacky website.
I know that it's possible for people with wheelbarrows to push or crap
to peddle, to get onto a mailing list like this and send it all over the
place (like they did here in the Kosovo war) and so I wondered whether
anyone else has been getting stuff like this. (I'm not going to put its
URL up or post a copy..the email was so offensive it nearly made me
throw up and no-one with any decency should suffer such sewage being
thrust before them.)
I hope no-one else on the list has been getting stuff like this but if
you have at least I'll know I'm not the only one.
I'm not one to visit such places on the WWW and I am extremely upset
that I have been the recipient of such rubbish.
There was no address that I could reply to, to protest..in any event
that would probably be a useless exercise. For the time being I'm going
to treat it with the usual contempt such emails and their authors
deserve.
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:48:17 +1000
From: Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: Where our winter's gone..or where it might be coming from?
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Seems like South Africa is copping our winter. Have a look at the
following brief summary, and

http://cirrus.sawb.gov.za/ (then go to sea level pressure analysis)

to see why..

THE REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR TODAY:-1999-08-02.
ISSUED AT 06:00 BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER BUREAU.
THIS FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED AT 12:00.


WARNINGS:
--------
1. BITTERLY COLD, WET AND WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE HIGH
GROUND
OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN CAPE INTERIOR AND THE ESCARPMENT OF NAMAQUALAND.
2. SNOWFALLS ARE EXPECTED IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE BOLAND AND
SOUTH-WESTERN
CAPE INTERIOR.
3. GALE-FORCE WESTERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED ALONG COAST BETWEEN CAPE POINT
AND CAPE AULHAS,  SPREADING SLOWLY EASTWARDS THIS AFTERNOON AND REACHING
PORT ELIZABETH BY EVENING.  THIS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY ROUGH SEA
CONDITIONS WITH A TOTAL SEA AND SWELL REACHING 5 TO 7 METRES.
4. HOT, DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO THE SPREAD OF VELDFIRES
ARE
EXPECTED OVER KWAZULU-NATAL AND SWAZILAND SPREADING TO THE LOWVELD AND
AND ADJACENT ESCARPMENT AREAS LATER.
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:51:58 +1000
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey Steve, everyone..

Great stuff steve! Those loops are great! In a few more weeks it will be
very easy for you to compile these loops.. as some of you may already
know, Chris Maunder is in the process of writing a program that
automatically downloads AVN and MRF plots (or any plots from the NOAA
raw data sites).. there was also a mention of the program stringing the
plots together into an animation..

To stop the colours changing throughout the plots you can set the
"white" option to a number.. whatever number you set it to will be the
value the colour white will be.. ie - if you set "white" to 1, then the
Lifted Index values of one will be shown as the colour white.. if you
set "white" to 2, then the Lifted Index values of two will be shown as
the colour white.. If you set this option to a number then the colours
will stay the same throughout the loop..

steve baynham wrote:
> 
> hey all,
> have put these together using ULEAD gif animator.
> hopefully they will help us forecast weather by getting to know the trends.
> new images will be added, so eventually i will have a week long loop, if
> avn don't have long delays:( can't do much about the scale changes, but am
> working on it!!
> hope yas find it useful:)
> 
> Cape
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000cape.gif
> 
> Lifted Index
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000lftx.gif
> 
> Mean seal level & 1000 - 500 thickness
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000mslthick.gif
> 
> Precipitation 0 - 6hr
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000rain.gif
> 
> 2 metre Relative humidity
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000rh2m.gif
> 
> Surface winds
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1000wind.gif
> 
> 500 heights and Absolute vorticity
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/500hgtabsvort.gif
> 
> 500 relative humidity
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/500rh.gif
> 
> 500 temperatures
> http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/500temps.gif
> 
> i will be adding todays 00z and 06z later tonight after work.
> cyas
> steve
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:43:40 +0100
From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]
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Keith Barnett wrote:

> I'm sorry that the following is not directly weather-related but I have
> just received, gratuitously and totally unsolicited, pornographic email
> from some wacky website.

Pardon me for putting my hapenny worth in - but pornography in any form should
be banned worldwide and the isps responsible for spreading it should be closed
down....

There are ways and means of tracing spam back to its source, then what you do
is find a hackers or warez website, download a mailbomb program and mailbomb
the b******s..... just as lamentable perhaps but seems to work  ):

That usually does the trick..... for further advice post a message on a
scientific,  professional or technical newsgroup for advice or icq me on
17296776, I generally lead a spam - free existance due to the above.

Unfortunately pornographic or other spam seems to be the way with the 'Net.

Les

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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 20:41:10 +1000
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey Ben from Brisbane here..

Interesting couple of days in Brisbane.. Sunday saw a crisp backshearing
anvil in a backbuilding (backbuilding on radar) storm 200-250km's NE of
Brisbane.. as well as some great Cb off the coast on and off throughout
the day.. and the tracker getting up to 30 strikes at one stage.. sounds
pretty sad compared to the 500-600 strikes every 5 mins we get in
summer.. but hey it's winter..

Some more nice Tcu and Congestus around today at times as well.. with
some quite nice Cb complex's offshore once again.. and some lightning to
boot earlier this evening (the flashes were quite bright from the top of
Clear Mountain - NW of Brisbane)..

On another subject.. i am looking at buying a second hand camera (as the
one i have has a sticky shutter - anyone handy with camera's?).. and
while the body of the camera appears to be good, the 75-210mm zoom
apparently has mold on the lens or something.. i take it this is bad? is
it fixable/worth fixing?

The price of the camera is $195, and it comes with the zoom lens and
also a 50mm lens.. the model is a Minolta XG-A .. as i know absolutely
nothing about cameras or lenses any help that ppl can give me on this
would be much appreciated..

Nobody has a good SLR that they want to sell for a decent price do they?

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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: Some Cb way to SE of Wollongong
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 23:05:45 +1000
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Riding the push bike past Warilla beach this afternoon I was surprised to
see some impressive Cb off to the SE at an estimated 200-300km. What was
really interesting was that they actually faded off towards the NE, I
thought that the opposite would be the case.

Anyway they are not for us and with clear skies there may be frost in the
Albion Park area tomorrow morning.


Michael Thompson
http://thunder.simplenet.com


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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:32:22 +1000
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Subject: aus-wx: Minutes of ASWA meeting
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Hi everyone,

The message I sent was not really an official minutes. It was more of a 
brief guide for people to know what happened until Anthony got back to 
Brisbane.

Also, a correction. Paul Graham is a member of the committee acting as a 
liaison officer. I thought there were six on the committee.

Thank you

Jimmy Deguara
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:37:47 +1000
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Hi Keith and list members,

I also have received spam messages each month. I receive at least 5 on 
average each day. I was told that those with web pages, on ICQ and also on 
IRC are susceptible to it.

Jimmy Deguara

At 19:31 2/08/99 +1000, you wrote:
>I'm sorry that the following is not directly weather-related but I have
>just received, gratuitously and totally unsolicited, pornographic email
>from some wacky website.
>I know that it's possible for people with wheelbarrows to push or crap
>to peddle, to get onto a mailing list like this and send it all over the
>place (like they did here in the Kosovo war) and so I wondered whether
>anyone else has been getting stuff like this. (I'm not going to put its
>URL up or post a copy..the email was so offensive it nearly made me
>throw up and no-one with any decency should suffer such sewage being
>thrust before them.)
>I hope no-one else on the list has been getting stuff like this but if
>you have at least I'll know I'm not the only one.
>I'm not one to visit such places on the WWW and I am extremely upset
>that I have been the recipient of such rubbish.
>There was no address that I could reply to, to protest..in any event
>that would probably be a useless exercise. For the time being I'm going
>to treat it with the usual contempt such emails and their authors
>deserve.
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From: "Marty" [martyp at dynamite.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: Fw:      old tales predicting weather
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 21:08:40 +1000
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Hi all,

I received the following email from another list and thought one of you smart
and knowledgeable folk might be familiar with such an unusual phenomenon, or
should I say belief.

Cheers,

Marty.
Brisbane, Australia
martyp at dynamite.com.au
Images of Canberra: http://www2.dynamite.com.au/martyp
Lightning Photos: http://www2.dynamite.com.au/martyp/lightning
ICQ: 11790565

>Hi
>Since moving to the country some 15 years ago, and developing close bonds
>with various people involved in farming, I have often marvelled at the
>many and oft repeated ways in which these people try to predict the
>weather, especially rain.
>The one way which intrigues me, is one where underground springs start to
>run, and rain follows about a week later, the amount of run of the spring
>indicates the amount of the rain. Many local farmers have such a spring,
>which has worked for generations (according to them)
>I live on the top of the ranges north of Bega, the ground around here is
>decomposed granite and therefore extremely porous. In one corner of the
>property, on a high spot, there is a permanent damp spot, even through
>extended drought. At times this spot becomes waterlogged, with clear
>water, and run-off, and sure enough this is usually followed within 2
>weeks by significant rain. The rain is often not predicted by the weather
>bureau, and the times of flow do not co-incide with changes in
>atmospheric pressurem either up or down.
>Is there some sort of sub terranean pressure system, forcing the water
>upwards, and if so can this in any way be linked to rain?
>regards
>Peter
>

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