From                                           Subject
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001 wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams)          snow
002 Don White [donwhite at ozemail.com.au]            Sydney weather
003 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   snow
004 "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com]                Snow Chase
005 Andrew Wall [astroman at chariot.net.au]          ASWA Weekly newsletter 4
006 Andrew Wall [astroman at chariot.net.au]          ASWA Weekly Newletter 4 Second editon
007 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]              Winter Highs + I'm ready for summer
008 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net]             Brisbane-wx

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From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams)
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: snow
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:33:13 GMT
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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:47:45 -0700, Lindsay 
wrote:

>Light snow/sleet here in Blackheath at 6:10pm Saturday
>
A substantial fall of very wet snow for 20 mins or so around 8 to 8.30
at Mt Victoria. I drove back from the pictures there to Blackheath
through quite thick snow across Mt Boyce, with the 50 metre rise from
Mt Victoria and drop to Blackheath making a perceptible difference to
the ratio of snowflakes to raindrops, so a very marginal situation. I
had 4mm in the gauge when I got home, but no snow lying on the ground.
Wind SSE, so we obviously caught the side of one of the shower bands
running onto the coast in the SSE stream as the small low/trough moved
NE of Sydney. Sydney Airport had 25mm 6 to 9pm. 1.1C at Mt Boyce with
patches of low Cu moving from the SW at midnight.

The last ACARS data I have for Sydney (21.30EST) indicates a freezing
level of about 4,100 ft with wind WSW to SW below 3000 ft, but rapidly
turning S/45 knots around 4000' and swinging further to the SE right
up to 25000', so a very laid-back upper trough. The Bureau's 2100
analysis has a small low about 100km E of Port Macquarie. Radar at
midnight still has long streets of light blue moving in from 160 or
170 degrees, with some substantial yellow areas and the odd bit of
pink quite close to the coast between Wollongong and the Central
Coast. Sydney Observatory Hill had 34mm 9pm to midnight, Norah Head
17, the airport 16, Canterbury 15, Homebush and Mangrove Mtn 13, and
Narara (Gosford) 10, so some of the showers are getting inland.

Could still be interesting for snow here or around Katoomba if some of
those showers move far enough inland before warmer air starts to move
in.

-- 
Laurier Williams
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 01:34:58 +1000
From: Don White [donwhite at ozemail.com.au]
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Periods of moderate to heavy, very big spotted rain for some hours ....
36 mm to midnight at Frenchs Forest in NE Sydney - reports of 50 mm
before 8 pm and midnight on northern beaches of Sydney. Bof M had54 mm 6
pm to midnight
Don White
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:19:35 -0700
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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It started sleeting at around 6pm saturday in blackheath with a temp of
around 1.5, then as the sleet continued and the temp dropped it turned
to snow. There was light cover on the ground, on our car etc at around 7
whe the temp was 0.5 then the wind picked up and temp moved gradually to
1 then 1.5. The light ground cover soon melted replaced by sleet again.
Another heavier snow fall hit on my way to the bottle shop at about 9pm
and covered the car again and then turned to sleet/rain ten minutes
later.

Lindsay

Laurier Williams wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:47:45 -0700, Lindsay 
> wrote:
> 
> >Light snow/sleet here in Blackheath at 6:10pm Saturday
> >
> A substantial fall of very wet snow for 20 mins or so around 8 to 8.30
> at Mt Victoria. I drove back from the pictures there to Blackheath
> through quite thick snow across Mt Boyce, with the 50 metre rise from
> Mt Victoria and drop to Blackheath making a perceptible difference to
> the ratio of snowflakes to raindrops, so a very marginal situation. I
> had 4mm in the gauge when I got home, but no snow lying on the ground.
> Wind SSE, so we obviously caught the side of one of the shower bands
> running onto the coast in the SSE stream as the small low/trough moved
> NE of Sydney. Sydney Airport had 25mm 6 to 9pm. 1.1C at Mt Boyce with
> patches of low Cu moving from the SW at midnight.
> 
> The last ACARS data I have for Sydney (21.30EST) indicates a freezing
> level of about 4,100 ft with wind WSW to SW below 3000 ft, but rapidly
> turning S/45 knots around 4000' and swinging further to the SE right
> up to 25000', so a very laid-back upper trough. The Bureau's 2100
> analysis has a small low about 100km E of Port Macquarie. Radar at
> midnight still has long streets of light blue moving in from 160 or
> 170 degrees, with some substantial yellow areas and the odd bit of
> pink quite close to the coast between Wollongong and the Central
> Coast. Sydney Observatory Hill had 34mm 9pm to midnight, Norah Head
> 17, the airport 16, Canterbury 15, Homebush and Mangrove Mtn 13, and
> Narara (Gosford) 10, so some of the showers are getting inland.
> 
> Could still be interesting for snow here or around Katoomba if some of
> those showers move far enough inland before warmer air starts to move
> in.
> 
> --
> Laurier Williams
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> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wbc/
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From: "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com]
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Subject: aus-wx: Snow Chase
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:17:54 +1000
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Hi all went for a bit of a snow chase yesterday in the hills north of Noojee, about 100kms east of Melbourne. encountered patchy snow on the ground at about the 800 metre level, by the time we reached the highest point on the road 1100 metres the snow was about 15 to 20cms deep, it was also thick on the trees which made the whole scene very pretty took a few photos. The snow was falling off the trees everywhere, there were several quite heavy snow showers while we were there but snow flakes were small less than 1cm. All in all though a good day. Dane.
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Hi There,
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Australian Severe Weather Association online newsletter. I hope you all enjoy it and any thoughts or comments can be send to " Kathryn Jolly at astroman at chariot.net.au " also please don't forget if there is any information regarding the Australian Severe Weather Association that you would normally send to the list, please send it to me instead for inclusion into the newsletter. That is what it is here for. All emails to arrive to me by 10pm Friday nights.
Happy reading
THE AUSTRALIAN SEVERE WEATHER ASSOCIATION INC WEEKLY NEWSLETTER -Issue 4
The Australian Severe Weather Association Inc (ASWA) is here to provide a platform for discussion into severe weather, research and education. A lot has been written about about Australia's severe weather in the past and you can view many different stories of people's experience with the weather in the offical ASWA magazine "Storm News". Discussion about the latest weather and a great place to learn from is the aus-wx mailing list from which ASWA Inc was originally formed. The mailing list is filled with people who are eager to help teach others about all aspects of meterology and to share their experiences.
Membership into the ASWA Inc is $30 a year (with access to the Bureau of Meterology's radar and a quarterly subscription to "Storm News) or if you don't wish for radar $20 a year (with the quarterly subscription to "Storm News" still remaining.) Both visitors and members are welcomed to attend State Meetings. State Meetings are held in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland in their capital cites. Members can also have the chance to buy an ASWA T-shirt in either polo or round neck styles. If you would like to join you can visit the ASWA Inc website at http://www.severeweather.asn.au/ and fill in an online application form or get in contact with your State Rep. All details can be found at the website.
General News
ASWA Members
There are now 90 members within the ASWA.  Welcome to all those that have recently joined.
Friday 13th Video Night
On Friday 13th August, there was a video night for members and visitors of the Sydney NSW centre. Those in attendance had a great time with good discussion and some great videos. We watched an interesting video on
lightning research in the US which aroused some questions. This was followed by Jimmy's video on sampled storm chase footage. (I would suggest you go frame by frame with spectacular lightning video footage as you can see lightning structure that is too quick for the eye to interpret). After some more hail footage, we watched the 30th January 1999 possible tornado footage. This was thoroughly enjoyed and even by my staff teacher member Troy Green who came along as well. The highlight of the evening I think was a visitor by the name of Rune Peitersen who joined up on the night. Welcome to ASWA Rune!!
Thanks guys for a great night and thanks for Daniel Weatherhead for putting up his home for the video night.
Jimmy Deguara
T-Shirts
T-shirts with round neck
1 x M
2 x L
1 x L (logo on back)
Polo Shirts
2 x L
IMPORTANT
Those people who have placed orders with Jane ONeill originally and still haven't picked up their shirts will need to get a cheque to her at PO Box 94, Abbotsford, Vic 3067 (made out to ASWA Inc.) by the 24th August - otherwise they'll be sold. There are now more orders than T-shirts
Photo Comp
Closing date for this months competition is August 26, please send all photos of  Halos/Rainbows to
webmaster at severeweather.asn.au
submission rules.
1. If sending the images by email, convert the images to "JPG" format and keep them under 100kb in size.
2. Make the image 400 pixels in width. (I will except larger ones and rescale them to fit but they must be under 100kb's in size
3. Include your Name, Postal address, Email (if you have one), The location and date the photo/photos where taken, short description of the weather that day (as you remember it) and (if possible) the camera type, film type and camera
settings.
Storm News
Reminder submissions for Storm News close on August 21 Please send any submissions to cyclone at flatrate.net.au
Foxtel now with RADAR !!!!
Everyone with Foxtel knows about the weather channel, so everyone with Foxtel would be interested in this information.
If you haven't seen it already, Foxtel weather channel now hosts a radar image of a selected region. Even though very similar to the radar images on the net, it does have a few minor differences one being the colours are slightly different but still mean the same as whats on the net. I am unsure if this radar is nation wide, so all members and non-members with fox please check the weather channel and see if your radar images come up. I checked this out on channel 29 the Foxtel Weather Channel, it may be on a different channel in other states..
Now how would this effect members with radar access, well for one members with radar access can get radar images every 10 minutes, Fox weather does not update every 10 minutes, it has an upload time of 30mins -1hr, so people with net access radar (NARad) can get more of an idea on incoming rain events, and be better prepared. Also Foxtel Weather takes so long to complete a loop that when you want to see the radar they may have just shown it and it will take another 10 mins or so to come around again. Also Foxtel only show a few seconds worth, so once the rain areas have shown it flicks over to the next sequence, I found this quite annoying as you cannot really see where all the rain is in that few short seconds. So all up NARad seems to be the way to go in our case.
If anyone has any information on Fox Radar imaging or anything at all, please email me so all reports can be added into the newsletter.
Check it out!
State News
South Australia - Northern Territory
Next meeting - Friday September 10th, at Hoyts Cinema Complex Cafe, Norwood starting at 8pm
Victoria - Tasmania
Next meeting - Saturday September 4th at the Pankcake Parlour, Doncaster
New South Wales
Next meeting - Saturday September 4th - Venue and time yet to be announced
Queensland
Please inform me off date and place for next meeting
Western Australia
Next meeting - Saturday September 4th at Victoria Park Recreation Centre, Victoria Park starting at 5pm
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Hi There,
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Australian Severe Weather Association online newsletter. I hope you all enjoy it and any thoughts or comments can be send to " Kathryn Jolly at astroman at chariot.net.au " also please don't forget if there is any information regarding the Australian Severe Weather Association that you would normally send to the list, please send it to me instead for inclusion into the newsletter. That is what it is here for. All emails to arrive to me by 10pm Friday nights.
Happy reading
THE AUSTRALIAN SEVERE WEATHER ASSOCIATION INC WEEKLY NEWSLETTER -Issue 4 second edition
The Australian Severe Weather Association Inc (ASWA) is here to provide a platform for discussion into severe weather, research and education. A lot has been written about about Australia's severe weather in the past and you can view many different stories of people's experience with the weather in the offical ASWA magazine "Storm News". Discussion about the latest weather and a great place to learn from is the aus-wx mailing list from which ASWA Inc was originally formed. The mailing list is filled with people who are eager to help teach others about all aspects of meterology and to share their experiences.
Membership into the ASWA Inc is $30 a year (with access to the Bureau of Meterology's radar and a quarterly subscription to "Storm News) or if you don't wish for radar $20 a year (with the quarterly subscription to "Storm News" still remaining.) Both visitors and members are welcomed to attend State Meetings. State Meetings are held in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland in their capital cites. Members can also have the chance to buy an ASWA T-shirt in either polo or round neck styles. If you would like to join you can visit the ASWA Inc website at http://www.severeweather.asn.au/ and fill in an online application form or get in contact with your State Rep. All details can be found at the website.
General News
A big apology to Matt Smith, for forgetting to add his article to the newsletter it is a follows.
Hi Everyone
Its getting closer and closer to the end of the year, in particular Storm Season, and the expiry date to come on the end of year chase is also getting closer and closer! September 30 is the cut off date, so let me know if you would like to attend, of for more details, go to the "Chase Details" section in the "Mebmbers Area" of the ASWA homepage.
http://www.severeweather.asn.au The Disclaimer should be comming along shortly, and everyone will need to sign this and give it to your State Representatives if you plan to attend. These will be handed out at ASWA meetings, and an online version to print out will be made available.
The State Rep's are:
Jane ONeil - VIC
Anthony Cornelius - QLD
Matthew Smith / Jimmy Deguara - NSW
Thanks for your time !
Chase Co-ordinator
Matthew Smith
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:01:52 +1000
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey Ben from Brisbane here...

Had a good conversation with some guys at the BOM today.. and got a good
explanation of why the highs are so low this year that i thought some of
you may be interested in..

Basically it is an indirect effect of La Nina.. High pressures systems
apparently like cold surfaces.. and due to La Nina pattern we have been
in, the SST's (sea surface temps) are higher than normal, and also the
whole northern half of the continent of Australia is warmer than normal
(any comments from the temp. guys on this?).. and because of these
warmer temps the high pressure systems are staying south where the
cooler surfaces are.. and that's about it.. :) It is the clearest
explanation i have been given so far anyway..

But here is the part i REALLY loved! When i asked if the pattern over
the last few months would effect our summer storms, he said that it
would.. but not a negative effect, we could see allot more moisture
around this summer (could be good for you VIC ppl.. i think your last
storm season was so good because of more moisture than normal?).. and of
course this could in turn be very good for our storms.. I have been
wondering if the pattern during winter would effect our summer storms,
but i didn't think it could have a positive impact!!

BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



> Dane Newman wrote:
> 
> Hi all went for a bit of a snow chase yesterday in the hills north of
> Noojee, about 100kms east of Melbourne. encountered patchy snow on the
> ground at about the 800 metre level, by the time we reached the
> highest point on the road 1100 metres the snow was about 15 to 20cms
> deep, it was also thick on the trees which made the whole scene very
> pretty took a few photos. The snow was falling off the trees
> everywhere, there were several quite heavy snow showers while we were
> there but snow flakes were small less than 1cm. All in all though a
> good day. Dane.
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From: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net]
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:07:55 +1000
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Hey all,

Now 10:30pm and temps already down into single figures (4C colder than at 
this time last night).  Air dry, conditions clear & calm.  Looks like this 
could be the coldest night this winter so far and possibly our first 
frost...

John.


-----Original Message-----
From:	Chas & Helen Osborn [SMTP:hosborn at tassie.net.au]
Sent:	Saturday, 14 August 1999 10:10
To:	Australian Weather Mailing List
Subject:	aus-wx: South America

Hello Everyone

Looks as though the East Pacific is where the action is.

 http://www.intellicast.com/Sail/World/UnitedStates/World/
May take 2min to download

Chas
Strahan Tasmania

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