Australian Weather Mailing List Archives: Sunday, 31 October 1999

From Subject -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 001 Chris Maunder [cmaunder at mail.com] Bead lightning 002 Chas & Helen Osborn [hosborn at tassie.net.au] Strahan Weather 003 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] Blackheath weather 004 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] Dry Winds and Allergy... 005 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] Blackheath - Sydney Temp differences on Tues. night. 006 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] Very Heavy Rain in Blackheath 007 Paul Miracki [pmiracki at powerup.com.au] Dry Winds and Allergy... 008 "James Harris" [jimbohar at hotmail.com] Chase today......... 009 "James Harris" [jimbohar at hotmail.com] Chase today......... 010 "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com] I am Back 011 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au] Dry Winds and Allergy... 012 "Nandina Morris" [nandina at alphalink.com.au] Dry Winds and Allergy... 013 Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au] A wet October 014 Chas & Helen Osborn [hosborn at tassie.net.au] Strahan Weather 015 "Nick Sykes" [nsykes at pacific.net.au] Remember its daylight savings tonight 016 Paul Graham [tornado at hobbiton.org] Interesting Frontal Clouds... 017 "James Harris" [jimbohar at hotmail.com] Hunter Chase & Frontal Sydney cloud formation 018 "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au] That Cartoon 019 "Pearce" [rpearce at tig.com.au] A wet October 020 "John Graham" [gorzzz at optusnet.com.au] ha ha ha 021 "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au] MSC updates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 001 X-Sender: cmaunder at mail.dynamite.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 01:38:15 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Chris Maunder [cmaunder at mail.com] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Bead lightning Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Thanks Marty :) I guess what would make or break our theories is an idea of what you actually saw with your eyes. I've got some pics of lightning that look fairly normal, but I remember at the time that as the lightning decayed some bits decayed faster than others, giving the "bead" effect. Looked way cool - but not the sort of thing a 1/125 shot from a handheld can capture all that well :) At 09:08 PM 10/30/99 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Mike and everyone, > >Great photo Mike, well done! I love seeing unusual forms of weather (of any >type), but lightning in particular, and, as you say, bead lightning is very >difficult to photograph. > >I thought Chris Maunder's theory of parts of the lightning channel being >brighter due to seeing it end-on was excellent, and quite possible. Although, if >it is true bead-lightning, I'm thinking that maybe you were able to capture it >because the main stroke has only exposed a thin portion of film, and the >remaining beads expose the film for longer and, hence, expose a larger area of >the film. We know that if you expose a bright light for a short period you will >get a smaller spot on film than if you expose for a long time. The exposed area >of the film tends to get bigger with a longer exposure. > >Cool shot, anyway. > >I certainly don't have a shot of bead lightning. > >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 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Fewings >To: Aussie Weather >Date: Saturday, 30 October 1999 14:37 >Subject: aus-wx: Bead lightning > > >>Hi all, >> >>Our last storms in Perth (which I might say were way way too >>long ago) were very lightning active. >> >>I did manage to capture just a few of the CG's (cloud to >>ground strikes) that were all around and one of them was >>particularly strange that I caught. >> >>I had the shutter open through the whole event and caught >>"bead" lightning. >> >>>From what I have been able to ascertain from research on >>bead lightning, it is relatively common but extremely hard >>to capture on film. The lightning strike itself generally >>burns it out on the negative. >> >>This is why the photo I have got is so strange. I caught the >>whole of the sequence of this strike (stepped leader and >>ground originating main stroke) and still managed to get >>very bright spots on the strike channel. The strike looks >>like it is about 10 to 20 km away in heavy rain but the >>beads are bright enough to suggest that it is less than 4 km >>away and the thunder from it backed this up on the night. >> >>The reason for the post except to show you the photo (in all >>its bad scan glory) is to ask if anyone has a theory on why >>I might be able to photograph bead lightning when I got the >>rest of the CG sequence as well? >> >>All the other photos I have ever taken have never resulted >>in capturing it before. >> >>Also has anyone managed to photograph it before? >> >>I have an idea that it is rare as rare to capture it on >>film. >> >>http://strikeone.com.au/shorttimeonly/bead.jpg >>You may find it here. >> >>Kind regards >>-- >>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 >> >> >> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >> 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------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------ Chris Maunder Canberra, Australia Dundas Software www.dundas.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------------------------------ 002 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 07:51:57 +1100 From: Chas & Helen Osborn [hosborn at tassie.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Australian Weather Mailing List [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Strahan Weather Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hello Everyone A cold front moved through overnight with 11mm rain. The wind at 7am EDST now in the west at 21KT with some nice Cu forming in the cold stream. We even have a 40% chance of a thunderstorm!!!! Helen and I went on our first storm chase yesterday, a round trip of 5km, up to the water tower lookout and back. We saw some nice rain bands making their way across the harbour. Now the ice is broken I can see this is the first of many storm chases. As I write this we have had a hail shower, about half pea size, it lasted about a minute. TASMANIAN COASTAL REPORTS Issued at 0648 on Sunday the 31st of October 1999 CAPE SORELL WIND W 20KT CAPE GRIM WIND W 32KT MAATSUYKER IS WIND NNW 46KT SEA ROUGH HEIGHT 2.5-4M SWELL SW MODERATE HEIGHT 2.5M DISTANT PRECIPITATION LOW ROCKY PT WIND W 28KT RAIN Chas Strahan Tasmania +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:42:42 -0800 From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Blackheath weather Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hope this gets through as my isp is having major hassles related to that telstra balls up in Sydney late last week. Someone cut into Telstra's lines in the ground or something. 40mm for the 24 hours to 9am Sunday and raining heavily now. These are the days I hate being a mail contractor :-( Lindsay P. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:01:00 -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: Dry Winds and Allergy... Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hey, I was wondering if anybody knows of a connection with altitude and allergy. Both my partner and I get pretty strong allergy up here in Blackheath and I haven't really had a problem with such things until I moved here. Symptoms are basically headache/sinus pain type stuff and other townsfolk have told me they get it too, and its seemingly more prevelant here than in other towns. Anyway, maybe it could be the amount of pines we have up here but has the thinner air and dry winds got anything to do with it? Taa, Lindsay Pearce +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:03:09 -0700 From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Blackheath - Sydney Temp differences on Tues. night. Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Apparently not, surely Channel Ten "should" be reasonably good if they purport to present the weather in the first place. Then again, the temp given for Katoomba is so often way different to what it really is up here. Lindsay P. >Don White wrote: > > Lindsay > Weather with Tim Bailey??? Surely you don't expect accuracy? > > Lindsay wrote: > > > > Did anyone else notice the temperature differences for Blackheath and > > Sydney on the Channel Ten weather report on Tuesday night? > > > > I think it was 8 degrees (at katoomba actually, not blackheath) and 23 > > out west and 21 on the Sydney coast. Now that is a contrast! I think > > they were current temps for around 5:30pm that day. > > > > For those in the know more than me, (which is most of you), do you have > > any comments on such a contrast? I guess it had to do with the change > > coming through Blackheath, not yet hitting Sydney, on top of the normal > > 5-10 degree contrast? > > > > Taa > > > > Lindsay P. > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > 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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:52:01 -0800 From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Very Heavy Rain in Blackheath Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Very heavy rain in Blackheath now at 9:50 am. Lindsay P. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 09:01:13 +1000 From: Paul Miracki [pmiracki at powerup.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Dry Winds and Allergy... Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > Hey there. I would say that the altitude wouldn't have anything to do with it. You are only at what.. 900 hpa. I have been to the Himalayas in Nepal and the local people live there without a problem at 5100 metres where it's about 500hpa. However I don't know about the dry winds. These might be causing it but not the altitude.:) > Hey, > > I was wondering if anybody knows of a connection with altitude and > allergy. Both my partner and I get pretty strong allergy up here in > Blackheath and I haven't really had a problem with such things until I > > Moved here. Symptoms are basically headache/sinus pain type stuff and > other townsfolk have told me they get it too, and its seemingly more > prevelant here than in other towns. Anyway, maybe it could be the > amount > of pines we have up here but has the thinner air and dry winds got > anything to do with it? > > Taa, > > Lindsay Pearce > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+ > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ 008 X-Originating-IP: [206.17.105.113] From: "James Harris" [jimbohar at hotmail.com] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Chase today......... Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:19:18 EST Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hey all, A couple of us are heading up to the Hunter region, perhaps a little more towards Mudgee. If any one could give one of us a yell with some updates during the day we would be very appreciative. My mobile is 0414 912 191 Jimmys is 0408 020 468 and Max King's is 0412 208 908 Thanks, and hopefully we will get something James H ______________________________________________________ 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------------------------------ 009 X-Originating-IP: [216.100.157.164] From: "James Harris" [jimbohar at hotmail.com] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Chase today......... Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:35:28 EST Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Ummm Maxs number is actually 0412 208 928 Thanks, James H >Hey all, > >A couple of us are heading up to the Hunter region, perhaps a little more >towards Mudgee. If any one could give one of us a yell with some updates >during the day we would be very appreciative. >My mobile is 0414 912 191 >Jimmys is 0408 020 468 >and Max King's is 0412 208 908 > >Thanks, and hopefully we will get something > >James H > >______________________________________________________ >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------------------------------ > ______________________________________________________ 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------------------------------ 010 From: "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: I am Back Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:43:11 +1100 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 returned home yesterday from my trip to Byron Bay and the Gold Coast. Great trip had a great time and saw some beautiful country. Only encountered one really good storm ( but i wasnt chasing) that was on the 24th near Dreamworld (Coomera). Storm only lasted about 10 minutes but there was some marble sized hail with it. Later that night a line of storms developed out to sea and gave a spectacular display for some hours. Good to be back home (I think) Dane.

011 From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Dry Winds and Allergy... Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 11:35:11 +1100 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 I don't know whether altitude is a problem, but I can tell you that the first strong west wind of every autumn just about kills me. Michael > Hey, > > I was wondering if anybody knows of a connection with altitude and > allergy. Both my partner and I get pretty strong allergy up here in > Blackheath and I haven't really had a problem with such things until I > moved here. Symptoms are basically headache/sinus pain type stuff and > other townsfolk have told me they get it too, and its seemingly more > prevelant here than in other towns. Anyway, maybe it could be the amount > of pines we have up here but has the thinner air and dry winds got > anything to do with it? > > Taa, > > Lindsay Pearce > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ 012 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: "Nandina Morris" [nandina at alphalink.com.au] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Dry Winds and Allergy... Date: Sun, 31 Oct 99 12:50:18 PST X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id WAA03717 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com G'day Lindsay I have found winds from the east will generally produce sinus and hayfever problems, and have had many friends complain too, although they didn't realise the connection. Once I pointed it out, they kept a watch on things, and sure enough, it's the easterlies over spring/summer that do it. Don't know why. PS your mails got thru! Cheers, Nandina nandina at alphalink.com.au ---------- > Hey, > > I was wondering if anybody knows of a connection with altitude and > allergy. Both my partner and I get pretty strong allergy up here in > Blackheath and I haven't really had a problem with such things until I > moved here. Symptoms are basically headache/sinus pain type stuff and > other townsfolk have told me they get it too, and its seemingly more > prevelant here than in other towns. Anyway, maybe it could be the amount > of pines we have up here but has the thinner air and dry winds got > anything to do with it? > > Taa, > > Lindsay Pearce > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ 013 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 13:26:18 +1100 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 wet October Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I have just updated my rainfall summary at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~weather/rain.html I have had 35 millimetres since yesterday morning and this is the wettest October since 1976... +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 17:57:10 +1100 From: Chas & Helen Osborn [hosborn at tassie.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Australian Weather Mailing List [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Strahan Weather Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hello Everyone A squally afternoon the wind at the airport is SW 31KT gusting 41KT at 5.30pm EDST. Not a lot of rain, only 2mm at the airport since 9am, most of the showers seem to be going around us. TASMANIAN COASTAL REPORTS Issued at 1548 on Sunday the 31st of October 1999 CAPE SORELL WIND W 25KT RAIN MARRAWAH WIND WSW 28KT CAPE GRIM WIND W 33KT MAATSUYKER IS WIND NNW 48KT SEA VERY ROUGH HEIGHT 4-6M SWELL SW HEAVY HEIGHT 4M VISIBILITY 10KM SHOWERS, past hail LOW ROCKY PT WIND WNW 32KT Chas Strahan Tasmania +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 From: "Nick Sykes" [nsykes at pacific.net.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Remember its daylight savings tonight Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:01:52 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com With all the hoopla about daylight saving I thought I'll mention this handy freeware program i found. It displays the sunrise/sunset times for your location, twilight times, astronomical times, tells you how much sunlight you have in the day, how much usable light you have, how long it is to sunrise or sunset and the time the sun will be in it's highest position. By using custom input any place in the world can be done. This all in a 50k download. Goto http://www.suncreations.com/sun.html check this site for long/lat for your location http://www.auslig.gov.au/mapping/names/names.htm Nick Sykes +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 02:35:04 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Graham [tornado at hobbiton.org] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Interesting Frontal Clouds... Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Nice Cu line moved through with the front this afternoon although it was beginning to break up. I noticed strong uplift right along the front with low level scud cloud. Also, looking towards Chatswood there appeared to be some clouds which looked like funnels but they were too far to say for certain. So I didn't bother taking photos - they didnt' last long either but certainly one of them really looked convincing! - Paul G. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 X-Originating-IP: [203.109.133.174] From: "James Harris" [jimbohar at hotmail.com] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Hunter Chase & Frontal Sydney cloud formation Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:52:29 EST Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hey All. Well another weekend comes and once again a trough line comes through with some very nice activity to the N, NW of Sydney. AFter a late night watching the Wallabies get up over the Boks a quick 4 hour sleep saw me wake up to another rainy day in Sydney with boring altostratus filling the air and letting out a constant rain over the city.. A quick check of the radar, sat pic, LI and Cape confirmed that the place to be was up near Moree..... We went no where near it. But we settled witht the Hunter region near Singleton as a base for the action today. Rune (Sorry if I have spelt this wrong), Jimmy, Max and I meet up at St Ives and headed up the F3 freeway shortly after 11am. We broke through the rain near the Hawkebury river and came across low level stratus with some breaks to the north and NW. We headed off the F3 inland at Peats Ridge towards Cessnock and then to Bruxton on the New England Highway. We stopped to check things out and noticed a break in the cloud to the W where some development was occuring in what seemed to be a line system forming. To the NW a dark base could be seen with a nice rain curtain underneath. Listening to the Lightning detector (AM radio) confirmed that there were definatley storms around but just where. 15 more minutes of waiting and a decision was made to head W to Singleton after a call from Michael Bath. The storms were moving in a NE direction so the ones to our NW were of no use a they were right over No mans land in the Barrington Tops region. A look at the base of the clouds to our W indicated that there was something forming out there.West it was , so at approx 1pm we headed out to Singleton. Drove past a developing cell to the S but couldnt go after that one either. A stop at Mcdonalds in Singleton for 15 minutes was all we needed as aswe headed out again it was apparent that the cell we had passed to the S was now showing a clear strong formation with some strong vertical updraughts and nice lowerings underneath. We went to the Apex lookout just out of Singleton and took some great shots of the cell, but too our surprise another cell was forming behind to the W again, but this one looking alot more menacing. We now knew the cell we were going after.... At around 2pm we were heading W along the Highway as we were passing the Northern edge of the cell. We were hoping that the road would go NW but it didnt it was just heading straight for it. We knew we couldnt make it so pulled offf the highway about 20kms west of Singleton. Well what a sight... an extremely dark base to the S SW and W with a strong tinge of green above with some nice seperation. Right on the Northern edge of the storm a strong Microburst was visible with some more cloud lowerings. Best storm I have seen so far thias season. Unforunately it was heading NE towards the Barrington tops also, no way to chase it. Heavy rain and Hail hit first then as we where filming a barrage of CG's struck all around with one particular strike causing some of the deepest and loundest thunder I have heard in some time only a second after the strike. After that it was preety much over with the cell passing over and speeding NE. Boring alto stratus had take over the skies already. 4pm back to Sydney. The clearing line was very evident to the S and SW so we knew that it wasnt going to be long until the southerly hit. As we arrived into Sydney a visible frontal line was forming to the South with some very immpressive vertical growth and lowerings underneath. What made it a better visual experience was the fact that it was clear all round it except for this one straight line. At 6pm observed the line rolling in over the city and the Manly area with some really low lowerings and impressive updraughts. Then moved to the Bushfire brigade area at Terry Hills which has a fantastic clear view from aline from East right through to the W. 7pm ...As the line moved closer it was evident that the fresh southerly wind below was pushing up the extremely moist air in front causing what seemed to be the lowerings. Another 10 minutes and it was right in front but what happened next, well none of us have ever experienced this before. The cloud started to rise up from the land towards the main front line eventually joining it giving it scary look like a waterfall of cloud spilling from the main line right to the ground. Some of the best video and picture footage I have ever taken, and all this not even from a storm. This happened near Belrose, Narrabean and continued North until the front hit us. Once Jimmy gets the pics up I urge you all to have a look. Unbeleivable. The southerly then hit us with some very cool fresh gusts and low stratus behind. Time to go home What a day.......They just keep on getting better every week. Thanks to Matt Smith and Michael Bath who called with updates throughout the day. For the NSW members, Make sure you come to the meeting this Saturday night to see this unbeleivable video footage we have..... Thanks , James H ______________________________________________________ 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------------------------------ 018 From: "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au] To: "Aussie Weather" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: That Cartoon Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:04:54 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Finally, after a million hours trying to get it right - *that* cartoon is up for you......but it's still unfinished - and we need your help. What were Jimmy & Clyve saying? and btw, that's a hailstone at Jimmy's feet. http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/chase_cartoon.htm Have a look & send your suggestions to me or to the list. The winning dialogues (?) will be announced on the chase next month (or this month depending on what day you are reading this email) & also emailed to the list. There will be a prize..................... Jane (on behalf of those captured forever in black & white) ------------------------------------------------------- Jane ONeill ASWA - Victoria Australian Severe Weather Assocn (ASWA Inc.) Melbourne Storm Chasers Email: cadence at rubix.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------------------------------ 019 From: "Pearce" [rpearce at tig.com.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: Re: aus-wx: A wet October Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:11:14 +1100 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 190mm for October at St Ives. Not bad! Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Keith Barnett [weather at ozemail.com.au] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Date: Sunday, 31 October 1999 2:36 Subject: aus-wx: A wet October >I have just updated my rainfall summary at > >http://www.ozemail.com.au/~weather/rain.html > >I have had 35 millimetres since yesterday morning and this is the >wettest October since 1976... > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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 From: "John Graham" [gorzzz at optusnet.com.au] To: "Aussie Weather" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: ha ha ha Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:17:50 +1100 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 I know this isn't weather related, but I thought it would good to share....... __To: The Indonesian Foreign Minister From: The Australian Prime Minister My Dear Dr Alatas, May I thank you, on behalf of the Australian people, for your country's most kind declaration of war, received in my office at 8pm last night. With sincere regret, I must decline your invitation to fight. If you could delay your invasion of our northern coastline until, say, 2015, I'm sure we'd be able to give you a terrific scrap. But at the moment I doubt we could even field a team. Our F-111s are grounded again, and, because of their age (ours have the gearshift on the steering column, and those indicators that flip out of the door pillars), spare parts are available only at wrecking yards and swap meets. Also, we just can't seem to get them to run properly on unleaded. The Chinooks in Townsville are grounded, too. Losing the choppers is bad news as our fixed-wing capacity in the north is presently in tatters. Why? A slight kafuffle over my good friend Warren Entsch's concreting business has left our RAAF base at Weipa short of a number of desirable features - like a runway. Our Defence Minister, Mr Moore, sends his apologies, but insists that a war is presently out of the question as we don't have a Defence Secretary. Well we have one, but he's currently trying to wrestle Mr Moore to death in the Federal Court, for wrongful dismissal. It would be a little unfair on Mr Moore to begin a war while nobody in the Defence Department will speak to him. You will probably know that the Chief of Navy isn't getting a new contract either but, even if he was, I could not possibly commit our senior service to any conflict. Our two Collins submarines, Drowning and Waving, have just returned from sea trials off Fiji to assess their design targets of silence and stealth. Every time they went into reverse, normal conversation became impossible across most of Chile and Peru. It is also disheartening that Drowning ran aground, especially as this mishap somehow snapped off her periscope. Not that we have enough submariners to man the boats anyway. Attracting career sailors to our modern professional navy has not been helped by recent revelations on prime time television that recruits are routinely stripped naked, smeared with food scraps and excrement, and flogged on the buttocks. I take no comfort from the flood of applications this publicity drew from Tasmania. The army is still the bulwark of Australia's security, but even there things are difficult. Changes following the Women In Combat report, and same-sex relationship rulings, have, in my opinion compromised our flexibility. For example, both the First Heavy Armoured (Dykes With Pykes) and the Gay Fusiliers (The Queens Light Foot) refuse to fight for a fortnight either side of the Sydney Sleazeball Other soldiers are insisting, these days, on owning the conflict and have begun to enrol in regular workshops to manage their aggression. High Court rulings may also mean, with no offence Dr Alatas, that we cannot engage in a battle against a racially-selected enemy force. Can you recruit a sprinkling of Europeans next time? By all means take as many of ours as you want. It is a good indication of the quality of our Defence Intelligence Organization that I am unable to send this transmission in code. The code books were stolen by an unstable, steroid abuser, Jean-Philippe Wispelaere, shrewdly recruited by the DIO, and entrusted with most of our defence secrets. So now we don't have any. Mr Wispelaere sold them all in Bangkok. If you have any secrets you don't need any more, we would be most grateful for them. I should have the code books back soon. Christies are auctioning them in Havana next week. In the meantime, DIO suggests we do the old a=b, b=c, c=d code. They swear by it. I know our refusal will be a considerable disappointment to you, but can I suggest that you consider invading New Zealand instead? Their only significant defence capability lies with their two Anzac-class frigates, Mulk and Lemb. I have no doubt you'll cream them, and I should know. They were both built in Australia. Best wishes, John Howard ========================================================= _______________________________________________________ John Graham Email: gorzzz at optusnet.com.au or gorzzz at yahoo.com Member of the Australian Severe Weather Assoc. (ASWA) ASWA Homepage http://www.severeweather.asn.au/ ICQ# 25440353 Snail Mail : P.O.Box 1072 Ballina 2478 N.S.W Australia +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 From: "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au] To: "Aussie Weather" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: MSC updates Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:47:02 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com It's been a fairly busy month on the Melbourne Storm Chasers site even though we haven't had too much to get excited about. If you want to keep track of what we're up to in the coming months, bookmark the What's New page for a quick check of what I've updated...today it's the chase cartoon & Andrew McDonald's & my photo pages http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/wotznu.htm Happy daylight saving & CHASE MONTH starts in 94 minutes!!!!!!! Jane ------------------------------------------------------- Jane ONeill ASWA - Victoria Australian Severe Weather Assocn (ASWA Inc.) Melbourne Storm Chasers Email: cadence at rubix.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------------------------------