From                                           Subject
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001 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]           Schofields grass fire
002 Michael Fewings [mike at strikeone.com.au]        FNMOC update
003 Andrew Wall [astroman at chariot.net.au]          ASWA weekly newsletter - 9
004 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]   Schofields grass fire
005 Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au]         Schofields grass fire
006 "Daniel Weatherhead" [dpw14 at hotmail.com]       Schofields grass fire
007 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]              Video Camera
008 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]   Video Camera
009 "Marty" [martyp at dynamite.com.au]               Some iridescence pics

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In the past half hour (perhaps from 12:30 to 1:30pm) , we had a grass fire 
on our dam which started somehow from behind I would suppose. I have taken 
a few photos. I think some people don't have any idea just how quickly 
grass fires can spread.

Now Michael Bath and a couple of others know just how lacking we are in 
trees around here. The fires can spread quite quickly though even though 
the grass looks green. It is getting quite dry.

Jimmy Deguara

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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:55:18 +0800
From: Michael Fewings [mike at strikeone.com.au]
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Hi all,

Due to popular request there are now pages for all the times
on the fnmoc page located at
http://strikeone.com.au/fnmoc/fnmoc.cgi

These pop up in windows and if anyone is having problems
with the system please email me personally at
mike at strikeone.com.au with some information on what happens.

The display is suited more to 800x600 screen resolutions or
greater but any less will work ok.

Hope people find this page helpful.

--
Michael Fewings

Photographer of:
Strike One Lightning Photos
http://strikeone.com.au

Web Master of:
Australian Severe Weather Association Inc.
http://www.severeweather.asn.au


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Hi There,
Welcome to the ninth 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.
Happy reading
THE AUSTRALIAN SEVERE WEATHER ASSOCIATION INC WEEKLY NEWSLETTER -Issue 9
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
Births, Birthdays, Deaths, Marriages, Anniversarys.
On behalf of the ASWA I would like to congratulate Jason Bush on his 21st birthday yesterday 18/9/99.  I hope you had an excellent day Jason.
New Email Address
Nick Sykes has finally found a decent isp and has changed his email address again.  Please update your email address books to nsykes at pacific.net.au
Weather News
South Australia and Victoria
Widespread gale force winds, isolated thunderstorms and hail showers due to a deep low pressure system in the Bight affected SA and Vic during the week - with damage reported from both Adelaide and Melbourne due to trees and branches falling as a result of the high winds
State Meetings
South Australia - Northern Territory
No meeting for October - Next meeting 5th November
Victoria - Tasmania
Next meeting - Saturday October 9th at the Pankcake Parlour, Doncaster, 9.00am
New South Wales
The next NSW ASWA meeting is going to be held on Saturday 9th October 1999 after 5.30pm.  Venue not yet decided.

Queensland
Next meeting - Saturday October 2nd, at Unit 9/14 Argon St. Sumner starting at 10am
Western Australia
Please Inform Me Of Next Meeting.

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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Schofields grass fire
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:40:53 +1000
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Grass in the Illawarra area that is on sand - Lake Illawarra, Primbee, etc
is starting to look very brown. I noticed smoke from a fire west of the
Illawarra escarpment this afternoon. A dramatic contrast to the east coast
north of Newcastle.

Michael



> In the past half hour (perhaps from 12:30 to 1:30pm) , we had a grass fire
> on our dam which started somehow from behind I would suppose. I have taken
> a few photos. I think some people don't have any idea just how quickly
> grass fires can spread.
>
> Now Michael Bath and a couple of others know just how lacking we are in
> trees around here. The fires can spread quite quickly though even though
> the grass looks green. It is getting quite dry.
>
> Jimmy Deguara
>
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:35:48 +1000
From: Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au]
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Before the last lot of rain and storms the drought index here was about
34 which is really quite low for fires however when it gets to 50 a lot
of grasses start to dry out enough to be flammable. But the index is
highly subjective depending on the rainfall which of course can be
wildly at variance from one place to another.On projections based on an
assumption of continuing rainfall of <5mm per day the index would have
reached 50 in about another 2 weeks.
Although it's called the (Byram-Keetch) drought index it is used mainly
in estimating bushfire potential.
Sufficient to say that yes we are going through quite a dry spell.
Probably these westerlies (I had a dewpoint of minus 1 yesterday
morning) are the main cause.

Jimmy Deguara wrote:
> 
> In the past half hour (perhaps from 12:30 to 1:30pm) , we had a grass fire
> on our dam which started somehow from behind I would suppose. I have taken
> a few photos. I think some people don't have any idea just how quickly
> grass fires can spread.
> 
> Now Michael Bath and a couple of others know just how lacking we are in
> trees around here. The fires can spread quite quickly though even though
> the grass looks green. It is getting quite dry.
> 
> Jimmy Deguara
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Hey everyone,

Just before the rain last thursday night, i was beginning to think that 
maybe we might be in for a bad bushfire season up here. Since the Rural Fire 
Service is all jittery about burning off ( because of the pressures from all 
quarters), the undergrowth in my area has become thick over the last decade 
or so (last fires came thru here 1967? i think), and with the dry weather 
recently and the winds, alot of the forests are very dry.
With the urban environment creeping into bushed area more and more, does 
anyone think that in australia, we should have special provisions for living 
in fire prone country especially when;
1. austarlian eucalypt bushfire are the most dangerous of all wooded fires,

2. With earthmoving equipment, and engineeering technology becoming better 
and more available, house are being built where they would't have 10 years 
ago. Go for a drive in any mountain area where there is bush and see how 
houses are attached to the sides of cliffs.

3.Will environmental awareness becoming more so, there is a hesitation in 
burning off, cutting down trees therefore increasing fire fuel around 
houses.

Just some thoughts. I don't think there is enough bushfire awareness at the 
moment. In the years after the new year fires in sydney, there was but since 
then i feel there has been a complacency mood set in. Any way i know i am 
off the topic, but maybe there could be some sort of fire forecast. I know 
we get fire danger, but rarely do we hear that, and most outbreaks generally 
come when we least know.

Daniel Weatherhead



Keith wrote--->
>
>Before the last lot of rain and storms the drought index here was about
>34 which is really quite low for fires however when it gets to 50 a lot
>of grasses start to dry out enough to be flammable. But the index is
>highly subjective depending on the rainfall which of course can be
>wildly at variance from one place to another.On projections based on an
>assumption of continuing rainfall of <5mm per day the index would have
>reached 50 in about another 2 weeks.
>Although it's called the (Byram-Keetch) drought index it is used mainly
>in estimating bushfire potential.
>Sufficient to say that yes we are going through quite a dry spell.
>Probably these westerlies (I had a dewpoint of minus 1 yesterday
>morning) are the main cause.
>

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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:38:01 +1000
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey, Ben from Brisbane here..

Jason from Western Australia is in Perth at the moment (he lives in
Karratha).. and he is looking at buying a video camera in Perth before
he heads back home in the morning.. he does not have access to his email
address that is subscribed to this list, so he has asked me to write
this email for him..

Jason wants to know if anyone has any tips for him.. ie. what sort of
camera would be best for filming lightning and/or filming while driving
(on a storm chase etc etc).. any help at all would be much appreciated..
you can reply thru the list or email Jason directly at:

bushes at iinet.net.au


Michael Fewings wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Due to popular request there are now pages for all the times
> on the fnmoc page located at
> http://strikeone.com.au/fnmoc/fnmoc.cgi
> 
> These pop up in windows and if anyone is having problems
> with the system please email me personally at
> mike at strikeone.com.au with some information on what happens.
> 
> The display is suited more to 800x600 screen resolutions or
> greater but any less will work ok.
> 
> Hope people find this page helpful.
> 
> --
> Michael Fewings
> 
> Photographer of:
> Strike One Lightning Photos
> http://strikeone.com.au
> 
> Web Master of:
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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Video Camera
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:20:42 +1000
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Money is the key ingredient - if you have the $$ go digital. Get one that
can take stills as well, and one that connects readily to a PC. I also think
that JVC have a simple time lapse feature - something I have always wanted.

If you do not have the $$ for digital then at least make it Hi8 or Super
VHSC, you do not see much in the way of Super VHSc these days, so Hi 8 may
be it.

Canon have optical stabilisation which supposed to be superior to digital
stabilisation. Ignore the digital zoom - it is just a gimmick, so what if it
200X digital zoom when all you get is 5 huge pixels. Optical zoom is what to
look at.

The reason I recommend the Hi8 over standard 8mm is that video stills come
out better.

Michael


>
> Jason from Western Australia is in Perth at the moment (he lives in
> Karratha).. and he is looking at buying a video camera in Perth before
> he heads back home in the morning.. he does not have access to his email
> address that is subscribed to this list, so he has asked me to write
> this email for him..
>
> Jason wants to know if anyone has any tips for him.. ie. what sort of
> camera would be best for filming lightning and/or filming while driving
> (on a storm chase etc etc).. any help at all would be much appreciated..
> you can reply thru the list or email Jason directly at:
>
> bushes at iinet.net.au
>
>
> Michael Fewings wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Due to popular request there are now pages for all the times
> > on the fnmoc page located at
> > http://strikeone.com.au/fnmoc/fnmoc.cgi
> >
> > These pop up in windows and if anyone is having problems
> > with the system please email me personally at
> > mike at strikeone.com.au with some information on what happens.
> >
> > The display is suited more to 800x600 screen resolutions or
> > greater but any less will work ok.
> >
> > Hope people find this page helpful.
> >
> > --
> > Michael Fewings
> >
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> > Strike One Lightning Photos
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> >
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From: "Marty" [martyp at dynamite.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: Some iridescence pics
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:36:29 +1000
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Hi all,

On a recent flight to Canberra I took some shots of some iridescence from the
air. (The quality is purposely crap to reduce download time.)

A thin feint rainbow beside a fogbow:
http://www2.dynamite.com.au/martyp/temp/irid1.jpg

A small 360� rainbow:
http://www2.dynamite.com.au/martyp/temp/irid2.jpg

And another:
http://www2.dynamite.com.au/martyp/temp/irid3.jpg

And another with the distinct shadow of our aeroplane in the centre:
http://www2.dynamite.com.au/martyp/temp/irid4.jpg

An interesting cloud:
http://www2.dynamite.com.au/martyp/temp/cloudplane.jpg

I'll prolly only keep the images there temporarily.

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
3D Photography: http://www.bit.net.au/~erinm/3d
ICQ: 11790565

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