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From Subject -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 001 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 00:24:10 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Annual General Meeting Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 002 Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 08:10:45 -0500 From: Sam Barricklow [k5kj at pulse.net] Organization: Home Page http://www.k5kj.net/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: Weather Chase Input [wx-chase at postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu] SKYWARN Input, wx-chase-can List Member , Aussie Weather Subject: aus-wx: Training Materials on the Web Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 003 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 07:08:38 -0700 From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Big Frost Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 004 X-Sender: paisley at mail.cobweb.com.au Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 08:18:07 +0930 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Phil Bagust [paisley at cobweb.com.au] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Big Frost Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >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 paisley at cobweb.com.au www.cobweb.com.au/~paisley +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 005 From: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] To: "'aussie-weather at world.std.com'" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: RE: aus-wx: Lightning Detection Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:16:01 +1000 Organization: Pixel Components X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 >To: Australian Weather Mailing List >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 > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 006 X-Originating-Ip: [210.8.232.3] From: "Patrick Tobin" [pdtobin at hotmail.com] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Re Lightning Detections Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 18:27:18 PDT Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 007 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:33:56 +1000 From: Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.au] Organization: Telstra Strategy & Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Here it is, folks!! Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 008 From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Subject: aus-wx: Cold night in SE Australia, but probably no records To: aussie-weather at world.std.com (Aussie Weather) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:06:09 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 009 From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Here it is, folks!! To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:17:29 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mullara.met.unimelb.EDU.AU id MAA27114 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > > 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 010 From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cold night in SE Australia, but probably no records Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 02:48:38 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 Australian Weather Links and News http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wbc/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 011 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 12:11:48 +1000 From: Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.au] Organization: Telstra Strategy & Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Global MRF Models Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com [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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 012 X-Sender: bayns at nornet.nor.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:44:13 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: steve baynham [bayns at nor.com.au] Subject: aus-wx: july rainfall Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 013 X-Sender: bayns at nornet.nor.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:38:23 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: steve baynham [bayns at nor.com.au] Subject: aus-wx: new weather loops Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 014 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:06:38 +1000 From: Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.au] Organization: Telstra Strategy & Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Here it is, folks!! Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 015 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 17:32:26 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: july rainfall Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 016 From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Subject: Re: aus-wx: july rainfall To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:49:46 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 017 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:31:32 +1000 From: Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: "aussie-weather at world.std.com" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: A matter of concern.. Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 018 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:48:17 +1000 From: Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: "aussie-weather at world.std.com" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Where our winter's gone..or where it might be coming from? Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 019 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:51:58 +1000 From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: new weather loops Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 020 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:43:40 +0100 From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] Organization: Personal - ICQ 17296776 - note all times in GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: A matter of concern.. Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 021 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 20:41:10 +1000 From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: SE QLD Storms + Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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? +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 022 From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Some Cb way to SE of Wollongong Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 23:05:45 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 023 X-Sender: jimmyd at pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:32:22 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au] Subject: aus-wx: Minutes of ASWA meeting Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Jimmy Deguara Vice President ASWA from Schofields, Sydney e-mail: jimmyd at ozemail.com.au homepage with Michael Bath +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 024 X-Sender: jimmyd at pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:37:47 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au] Subject: Re: aus-wx: A matter of concern.. Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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. > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Jimmy Deguara Vice President ASWA from Schofields, Sydney e-mail: jimmyd at ozemail.com.au homepage with Michael Bath +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 025 From: "Marty" [martyp at dynamite.com.au] To: "Aussie Weather Mailing List" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Fw: old tales predicting weather Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 21:08:40 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 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 > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------
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