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001 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au] here comes Christian.
002 wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) NPMOC access stuffed:-(
003 "James Chambers" [jamestorm at ozemail.com.au] ASWA/BoM Storm Spotter Review
004 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] Photos wanted..... can anyone help?
005 "Nandina Morris" [nandina at alphalink.com.au] Not WX really but Hell Boyle's Over...
006 Chas & Helen Osborn [hosborn at tassie.net.au] Strahan Weather
007 "ptera" [adderley at acay.com.au] here comes Christian.
008 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] NGP Loops
009 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] This weeks low scaled back
010 "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com] Not WX really but Hell Boyle's Over...
011 "Nick Sykes" [nsykes at pacific.net.au] New E-mail Address
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:13:48 +1000
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From: Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: here comes Christian.
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Listen, this Christian should be encouraged to join ASWA!!!!
Jimmy Deguara
At 23:27 16/09/99 +1000, you wrote:
>To show that I'm not totally slack, Here's a story:
>I've been doing some part time work in a photocopier shop
>in Wyoming (near Gosford.. near Woy Woy).
>A woman came in yesterday to have some posters laminated.
>They were taken by her son Christian about a year ago
>and had been blown up to 500mm wide.
>One was the most beautiful and impressive lightning strike I've ever seen.
>I thought you lot might be interested so here it is:
>http://www.acay.com.au/~adderley/lightning/
>Christian is not on the net yet so I'll have to transpond any correspondence
>manually.
>Since the pic was so big it scanned well and I intend to print him out a
>copy
>of the one I've posted.
>The original had power lines running right through the middle
>but I've managed to edit them out.
>On Christian's behalf and permission, I'd like to submit them to your photo
>competition.
>When I finally get organised I may mave some of my own to submit.
>It's probably very rude of me to blunder in this way as I have not even paid
>my subscription.
>My apologies..
>This will happen.
>
>With regards,
>Peter Adderley.
>adderley at acay.com.au
>
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From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams)
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: NPMOC access stuffed:-(
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:22:44 GMT
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On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:49:36 +1000, Michael Scollay
wrote:
>
>Thanks Laurier and yes, I am aware...but with over 40MB per day increase
>in the archive for ASWA radar and satpics, adding more means less to
>keep on-line and more on backup tapes...As for NPMOC, the chopped-off
>image is a constant problem, particularly from 1500Z to 1630Z. The
>reason for this is available time v/s demand at NPMOC. Raw satpic images
>are received locally then processed to the images delivered via WWW. When
>processor(s) demand is high, there is less time to process the received
>image before the next one is due, so the conversion is aborted resulting
>in a truncated JPG image. I'm not sure whether NPMOC's woes are just
>confined to the WWW server, if so, then it is WWW demand that is
>increasing processor load. But I tend to think that this timing of 1500Z
>corresponds to some other event at NPMOC, say a backup run. I know
>from much experience that running backups is enough to grind many
>machines to a very slow pace leaving less for real work...
>
Michael, interestingly, the Dundee University 3-hourly IR global
images have been missing the 1500z image for over a week, while the
JCU archive hasn't had a 1500z image for months.
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Laurier Williams
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From: "James Chambers" [jamestorm at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: ASWA/BoM Storm Spotter Review
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:54:52 +1000
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Hi all
Qld ASWA member Narelle Bowmaker has prepared a review of the Joint ASWA/BoM
Storm Spotters Seminar held at the Brisbane BoM last weekend. She took the
pics herself - looks great Rals!
Here's the URL:
http://www.xenon.net/~truffles/the-aswa-bom-seminar-review.htm
Hey, guess what? The Severe Storm Season is nearly here!!!!
Regards
James Chambers
Logan City.,
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 19:44:30 +0100
From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]
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Jane ONeill wrote:
> Passing this on to everyone ......
>
> >Steve Rothwell here; I'm a freelance journalist based in
> > Perth, Western Australia. I'm currently researching and writing an
> > article about hurricane preparation for an Australian sailing magazine.
> >
> >
> > All the best from 'down under',
erm, HURRICANE preparation ??????
(:
Les
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From: "Nandina Morris" [nandina at alphalink.com.au]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Not WX really but Hell Boyle's Over...
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 99 10:08:31 PDT
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Michael - I just love it. Thank you.
Cheers,
Nandina
nandina at alphalink.com.au
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> If you're interested in the physics and thermodynamics of Hell,
> read on, otherwise [snip]. This is a recent "joke" posted to a
> strongly-filtered "internal" jokes list that I also subscribe to.
> It is one of the very best that has every entered my "Inbox"...
>
> ---
> This is an actual question given in a recent University of
> Washington chemistry midterm exam:
>
> "Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs
> heat)? Support your answer with proof."
>
> Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's
> Law, discussing how gas cools off when it expands and heats up
> when it is compressed, or some variant of this line of argument.
>
> However, one student wrote the following:
>
> First we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time.
>
> So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell
> and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can
> safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave.
> Therefore, no souls are leaving.
>
> As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the
> different religions that exist in the world today. Some of
> these religions state that if you are not a member of their
> religion, you will go to Hell. With birth and death rates
> increasing as they are, larger and larger numbers are being
> born and dying in the wrong religion, and so we can expect
> the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
>
> Now, we must look at the rate of change of the volume of Hell,
> because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature
> and the pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell
> has to expand as souls are added.
>
> This gives two possibilities:
>
> (1) If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at
> which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in
> Hell will increase until.....all Hell breaks loose.
>
> (2) If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase
> of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop
> until.....Hell freezes over.
>
> So which is it?? If we accept the postulate given to me by
> Ms. Theresa Banyan during my Freshman year, that "it will be
> a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into
> account the fact that this event has still not taken place,
> then (2) cannot be true.
>
> And so, Hell is exothermic.
>
> The student was awarded the only A grade in the exam.
> ---
>
> Michael Scollay mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:35:46 +1000
From: Chas & Helen Osborn [hosborn at tassie.net.au]
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Hello Everyone
11mm of rain to 9am, wind at the airport SSW 10 KT temp 9C. The winds
are stronger in the NW of the state.
TASMANIAN COASTAL REPORTS
Issued at 0948 on Saturday the 18th of September 1999
CAPE SORELL
WIND SSW 24KT
CAPE GRIM
WIND SW 32KT
MAATSUYKER IS
WIND WSW 18KT
Chas
Strahan Tasmania
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From: "ptera" [adderley at acay.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: here comes Christian.
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:25:03 +1000
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>Listen, this Christian should be encouraged to join ASWA!!!!
>
>Jimmy Deguara
I certainly will encourage him, but I've only spoken to him once, briefly,
on the telephone.
I'm going to print out an A4 colour copy on my new photo printer for him.
cheers,
ptera
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:26:55 +1000
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey, Ben from Brisbane here..
I have uploaded NGP animations for all days right up to the end of this
month.. given the fact that i have COLA MRF loops at BSCH, i havn't put
any FMNOC MRF loops up.. there is a link to the COLA MRF loops though..
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/ben/temploops.htm
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:04:37 -0700
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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That'll do, i guess.
Windy here on Saturday morning and chilly, about 6 degrees.
Lindsay P.
Michael Thompson wrote:
>
> I would be very surprised, perhaps some sleet early Sunday ?
>
> Michael
>
> > The BOM has scattered snow falls for south of the Cent. Tabs as of
> > Thursday at 11:35am. Any chance of some snow reaching the Cent. Tabs.
> > with those thickness forecasts and the 850 temps?
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> >
> > Lindsay P.
>
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From: "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Not WX really but Hell Boyle's Over...
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:32:31 EST
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Hi Michael,
That is bloody awesome...!!!!
It sure as HELL beats the crap outa the question I got on my second year
Met. course at Melbourne Uni!!!!!
....which had (as one of four answers to a multiple-choice question) the
following...
Q. Is a SINoptic meteorologist a...
A. ...person who can look into a girl's (sic) eye and tell whether...?
Cheers,
Kevin.
P.S. To which I ticked the above...since I'm not working for the Bureau
tells you a lot about how political correctness has advanced...
>From: Michael Scollay
>Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
>To: Aussie Weather
>Subject: aus-wx: Not WX really but Hell Boyle's Over...
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:52:19 +1000
>
>If you're interested in the physics and thermodynamics of Hell,
>read on, otherwise [snip]. This is a recent "joke" posted to a
>strongly-filtered "internal" jokes list that I also subscribe to.
>It is one of the very best that has every entered my "Inbox"...
>
>---
>This is an actual question given in a recent University of
>Washington chemistry midterm exam:
>
>"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs
>heat)? Support your answer with proof."
>
>Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's
>Law, discussing how gas cools off when it expands and heats up
>when it is compressed, or some variant of this line of argument.
>
>However, one student wrote the following:
>
>First we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time.
>
>So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell
>and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can
>safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave.
>Therefore, no souls are leaving.
>
>As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the
>different religions that exist in the world today. Some of
>these religions state that if you are not a member of their
>religion, you will go to Hell. With birth and death rates
>increasing as they are, larger and larger numbers are being
>born and dying in the wrong religion, and so we can expect
>the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
>
>Now, we must look at the rate of change of the volume of Hell,
>because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature
>and the pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell
>has to expand as souls are added.
>
>This gives two possibilities:
>
>(1) If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at
>which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in
>Hell will increase until.....all Hell breaks loose.
>
>(2) If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase
>of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop
>until.....Hell freezes over.
>
>So which is it?? If we accept the postulate given to me by
>Ms. Theresa Banyan during my Freshman year, that "it will be
>a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into
>account the fact that this event has still not taken place,
>then (2) cannot be true.
>
>And so, Hell is exothermic.
>
>The student was awarded the only A grade in the exam.
>---
>
>Michael Scollay mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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From: "Nick Sykes" [nsykes at pacific.net.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: New E-mail Address
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:48:25 +1000
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Hey all
Nick Sykes here, I have changed ISP's again, I think I will stick with this
one
My new e-mail addess is nsykes at pacific.net.au
Nick Sykes
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