Australian Weather Mailing List Archives: Tuesday, 9 November 1999

From Subject -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 001 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] Brisbane Goes "Off" - well, half of it anyway 002 wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) Frontal Angular Descriptions 003 Mark Dwyer [mjd at wantree.com.au] "Southern Exposure" (slightly OT) 004 Don White [donwhite at ozemail.com.au] Very low temps in the west 005 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Very low temps in the west 006 "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com] Cold Morning in Melbourne 007 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] Tornado report in Gympie 008 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] ECL Bomb and the cricket... 009 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] Storm Damage 010 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] Tornado report in Gympie 011 John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] Good rainfall 012 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] Re: Southern Exposure 013 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] ECL Bomb and the cricket... 014 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Cold Morning in Melbourne 015 "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com] Cool Spring in south... 016 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Cool Spring in south... 017 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com. ASWA BoM radar archives:-( 018 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Very low temps in the west 019 "James Chambers" [jamestorm at ozemail.com.au] ECL Bomb and the cricket... 020 wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) Wintry hail shower in Blackheath 021 wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) Wintry hail shower in Blackheath 022 wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) ECL not dead yet 023 "David Croan" [wxbustchase at hotmail.com] Gympie tornado 024 Paul Miracki [pmiracki at powerup.com.au] Brisbane Weather Photos 025 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] Confirmation of Tornado near Gympie (Cedar Pocket) 026 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] ECL not dead yet 027 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] Wintry hail shower in Blackheath 028 Paul Graham [tornado at hobbiton.org] Hunter Valley (NSW) Storm Cell... 029 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au] ECL Bomb and the cricket... 030 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au] "Southern Exposure" (slightly OT) 031 "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au] Victorian chase report 032 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au] More photos to look at if you feel bored 033 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] "Southern Exposure" (slightly OT) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 001 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:16:19 +1100 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: Brisbane Goes "Off" - well, half of it anyway Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hey Ben from Brisbane here.. I have added radar/satellite picture/lightning tracker loops to BSCH for Sundays storms.. http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/products/recentevents.htm All up there were 14 storms that went into max intensity (red) on the Brisbane local scale radar.. 1 of these storms was red constantly for 1 hour and 40 mins, another storm was red on radar for 1 hour straight.. and two other storms were red on radar for 40 mins straight (one of these was the storm i chased).. and all the other cells either went red briefly or had red.. then no red.. then red again etc etc etc.. There were several reports of golf ball hail from these storms as well.. All up it was a very very nice day.. our first big day of the season, and they get bigger from now on too.. gotta love it.. John Woodbridge wrote: > > kabboom. > > What a great day. I counted 6 different cells that rumbled there way past > Mt. Crosby today, most were quite photogenic. The best was second last, > and derived from a large cluster to NW at around 4:30pm. When the main body > of the storm was near Lake Manchester, an awesome guster developed from > nothing in about 5 mins. This formed on the SW rear flank, well curved and > was very turbulent, with strong upward movements. Initially I thought I > was looking at a wall cloud, but as it approached it became more of a shelf > cloud and swung around the storm body in a anticlockwise direction. (i.e, > started out as a front approaching from the N/NW behind the D'guilar Range > but swung around to form a line N-S finally heading off towards Brisbane in > an Easterly/NE direction - seeming to swing around the range to line up > with another small cell to the South) As it passed Mt. Crosby we received > very strong & cold NW winds, estimated 90-120kph, a classic microburst. > Made quite a mess, with leaves, bark & small branches over all the roads. > It looked like we would get at least the tail end of the following > rain/hail curtain, but it passed to the North. The storm had Nasty written > on it, and I think parts of Pullenvale/Brookfield must have copped a fair > hammering. I'm surprised it didn't drop a funnel. > > Took around a 15 photos of various spectacular cloud formations, including > nice crisp updraughts, a classic flanking line at 2:00pm on an earlier > cell, and some awesome turbulence directly overhead at 5:15pm. Many small > cells today had clearly rotating bases, but in all cases they were rotating > anticyclonicly. One cell was rotating around a large hole in the middle > (photo taken of course). > > Funnily enough, despite the 6 cells, not a single core passed over my > location, so no measurable rain was recorded! Rather a pity that the > Energex Lightning Tracker was out of action all day. > > Power flickered during the storms and then failed at 7:40pm, by which time > the storms had passed out to sea. Outage lasted 2 and half hours with 3 > failed attempts to get it back up. Suspect a tree or large branch > somewhere in the vicinity was tangled in lines. Outage covered an area > bounded by Lake Machester to North, Karana downs to the East, Chuwar to to > South and Pine Mountain to the West. > > John. > > Hi all, > > Hail just under golf ball size has been reported at Chapel Hill (thanks > to Narelle Bowmaker for reporting this). I phoned the BoM and reported > it...lots of reports of 1cm - 10c hail (that's ten cents, not cm) - some > "extreme winds" reported, but not aware of any damage caused by them. > > I >almost< received something nice, when a cluster of cells (pink/red) > split into two! One distinctly moving right, and one distinctly moving > left, the right-mover had what appeared to be a hook echo, and remained > fairly intense until it approached me anyway! I saw a hail shaft, as > well as a very nice/great shelf cloud! Certainly rounded, and reminded > me somewhat of my Nov 24, Noosa shelf cloud - but it collapsed right on > top of me before it could develop further *sigh*. > > However, to more than make up for them, I witnessed some absolutely > fantastic updrafts go up to the south...it was amazing, never seen > updrafts like these before! Trees/houses in the way - but you should > still be able to see the tops of these when I eventually get them > developed. > > Narelle also witnessed a "definite wall cloud with rotation under a > rotating meso" to the north of the city, she commented on how well > defined it was. Narelle has had extensive chasing experience in the US, > and I don't for one minute doubt her report! > > To add further interesting observations, another ASWA member reported a > possible funnel in the SW suburbs! > > I calculated todays CAPE to be ~2555 using my obs (29.6C, DP of 21C) > (and using a CAPE proggy). > > The day started off nicely at least, but pulse t'storms ruled most of > the day...however some had some nice structure to them. > > Anyway - time to catch up on all the study I've missed out on today from > the storms. Tomorrow doesn't appear to be too bad either. I'm without > windows in exams from 1:30pm to 7:30pm - oh yeah, it'll go off > definately given that situation!!! > > Any other reports Brisbanites??? Don't be shy now!! > > -- > Anthony Cornelius > Queensland Coordinator of the Australian Severe Weather Association > (ASWA) > (07) 3390 4812 > 14 Kinsella St > Belmont, Brisbane > QLD, 4153 > Please report severe thunderstorms on our Queensland severe thunderstorm > reporting line on (07) 3390 4218 or by going to our homepage at > 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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Frontal Angular Descriptions Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 16:37:28 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id LAA16418 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:38:14 +1100, "Clyve Herbert" wrote: >Title: Identification of Synoptic Frontal Angles >subtitle: an exercise in metal gymnastics > >This is an idea for describing frontal or trough angles which can be >important for descriptive purposes. > >1. Latitudinal: front lies west - east. >2. Longitudinal: front lies north - south. >3. - longitudinal: front lies NW - SE. >4. + longitudinal: front lies NE - SW. >5. - latitudinal: front lies SW - NE. >6. + latitudinal: front lies SE - NW. 7. -+ latongatudinal: front lies NSEW, like the one that lay from west ot Tasmania through central NSW and Qld and back into the Kimberleys on Sunday. ;-) Laurier +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:47:32 +0800 From: Mark Dwyer [mjd at wantree.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: "Southern Exposure" (slightly OT) Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Yes please les if it anit to much trouble MJ Les Crossan wrote: > list - > > There's a TV series on the UK's Channel 4 about severe weather in > Australia, starting with cyclones and the Great Barrier Reef.... next > week it's about severe weather in NSW, somewhat timely, anyone want a > copy as I'll b recording it. > > Happy hunting everyone, keep some for us. > > Les (UK) > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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 Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\mjd.vcf" Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 06:09:49 +1000 From: Don White [donwhite at ozemail.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie Weather [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Very low temps in the west Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I noticed that some areas of inland WA had tmps up to 18 degrees below normal on Sunday - Warburton temps 7 (-9) to 17 (-18). Giles and a few others very low. Are these records, Blair? Don W +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Very low temps in the west To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:14:53 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > > I noticed that some areas of inland WA had tmps up to 18 degrees below > normal on Sunday - Warburton temps 7 (-9) to 17 (-18). Giles and a few > others very low. Are these records, Blair? > Don W Warburton doesn't have enough data for any records to be meaningful. Giles's November record low max is 17.8 - this wasn't broken. The most notable aspect of the current spell is how prolonged the cool weather has been - Giles has now had 11 consecutive days below 30. I haven't checked whether that is a record, but suspect it could be. Most of the Australian inland south of about latitude 20 S is prone to occasional very large negative temperature anomalies in the summer half of the year in a cloud/rain situation - most stations in this region with a reasonable length of record have experienced at least one day near or below 20 (compared to means typically in the 34-39 range) in each summer month. The most striking example was the maximum of 15.0 in Boulia on February 24, 1949 (outside of this event, Boulia's lowest MINIMUM on record for February is 17.2!). In especially wet months, like January 1974 (when 40 was not reached anywhere in Queensland), cool conditions can persist for several weeks, leading to very large negative anomalies, even on the monthly timescale. That month saw monthly mean maximum anomalies in the -5 to -7 C range over much of western Queensland, north-west NSW and the southern Northern Territory. 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------------------------------ 006 From: "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Cold Morning in Melbourne Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:22:43 +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

Pretty cold around the Melbourne suburbs this morning, here in Kilsyth it went down to 2.5c earlier this morning, Coldstream AWS not far from here in the Yarra Valley recorded 0c overnight, Scoresby was down to 3c and Melbourne Airport and Moorabbin had lows of 4c. Dane.

007 From: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] To: "'aussie-weather at world.std.com'" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: RE: aus-wx: Tornado report in Gympie Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 09:33:08 -0000 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 Heard on ABC news 7:00pm last night (weather segment) A "mini-tornado" (yech, spew) in Gympie during a thunderstorm today (Sunday) completely destroyed one house and unroofed another... John. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] To: "'aussie-weather at world.std.com'" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: RE: aus-wx: ECL Bomb and the cricket... Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 09:28:39 -0000 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 Ah maybe not. Fine this morning with a W/SWesterley gusting to around 60km/hr, scattered cloud - chance of rain today rather remote I would think. Pressure 1008 & rising at 7:00am. John. >snip Which is all very exciting BUT will it destroy the chance of a result in the cricket in Brissy. 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------------------------------ 009 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 09:45:02 +1100 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: Storm Damage Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hey Ben from Brisbane here.. Anthony Cornelius and myself and driving up to Gympie today to survey this storm damage.. we are taking a digital camera so we should have pictures up at BSCH either tonight or tomorrow.. Very windy here this morning with gusts approaching 70 km/h .. 20mm here to 9am this morning from this system.. other places around Brisbane have had quite a bit more than me though.. Ben Quinn wrote: > > Hey Ben from Brisbane here.. > > Reports are beginning to come in now of a severe storm in the Gympie > Region - Mother Mountain to be exact.. i just spoke to an SES person, > and he said that one house has benn almost completely demolished, with a > house next to it with no roof.. there was only minor damage to > surrounding houses/houses in the area.. > > Myself or others from SE QLD will post any additional information as it > comes to hand.. > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ 010 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:52:26 +0000 From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] Organization: Personal - ICQ 17296776 - note all times in GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Tornado report in Gympie Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com John Woodbridge wrote: > Heard on ABC news 7:00pm last night (weather segment) > > A "mini-tornado" (yech, spew) AAARGH!!!! Some mini tornado if it's demolishing places.... 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------------------------------ 011 From: John Woodbridge [jrw at pixelcom.net] To: "'aussie-weather at world.std.com'" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: RE: aus-wx: Good rainfall Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 09:45:26 -0000 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 All, Well a good rainfall event here yesterday, with heavy drizzle for 12 hours from midday, punctuated with heavier falls and the odd rumble or too. The cell which was pink/red heading towards Mt. Crosby mid-afternoon, for which the BoM had a severe warning out, collapsed just before it got there, so only some rain. Good falls again later in the evening with the trough and some strong Northerlies, but no thunder. Total rainfall for the 24 hour period to midnight 33.0mm at Mt. Crosby. Nothing after midnight. John. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:51:37 +0000 012 From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] Organization: Personal - ICQ 17296776 - note all times in GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: John Graham [gorzzz at optusnet.com.au] aus-wx Subject: aus-wx: Re: Southern Exposure Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com John Graham wrote: > Can you do a copy for me???...pretty please??? :-) #1 to video - about the great barrier reef & la nina. Some nice footage, especially towards the end. I'm in Oz in two weeks and will have 2 set VideoPlus to get the lot. My server is processing video to jpeg NOW. UK TV system is different from Oz will try and get #1 to jpeg CDROM in the next week or so, at this rate i'll b carrying more CDROMs than luggage (: It's an ozzie production I c - next week is about cold air not about NSW as i thought at first. 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------------------------------ 013 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:54:16 +0000 From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] Organization: Personal - ICQ 17296776 - note all times in GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: ECL Bomb and the cricket... Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com John Woodbridge wrote: > > > Which is all very exciting BUT will it destroy the chance of a result in > the cricket in Brissy. Not being into cricket (I'm a Scot) didn't a tornadic / supercell event force a draw with England (ssssss) once???? 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------------------------------ 014 From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cold Morning in Melbourne To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:56:44 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > > Pretty cold around the Melbourne suburbs this morning, here in Kilsyth = > it went down to 2.5c earlier this morning, Coldstream AWS not far from = > here in the Yarra Valley recorded 0c overnight, Scoresby was down to 3c = > and Melbourne Airport and Moorabbin had lows of 4c. Dane. =20 > No records, at least at stations with a reasonably long record (I haven't checked others), but a few near-misses (closest being 2.4 at Orbost - record is 1.6). Also very low max temps yesterday at Gelantipy and Combienbar in East Gippsland - both 8 - and 9 at Bombala in NSW. This indicates a pretty cold air mass, as all of these stations are around 600 metres in elevation. Perisher, with -8.5, wasn't that far away from the Australian November record of -9.4. It looks like staying cool for several days - numerous opportunities for low mins, depending on where there is/isn't cloud. 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------------------------------ 015 X-Originating-IP: [203.36.248.19] From: "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Cool Spring in south... Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 11:42:44 EST Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Blair, Further to your mails on sub-30 degree temperatures in Melbourne...here in Wycheproof we are also still to experience a 30+ degree day (which in my fifteen years here is quite unusual!), and little chance in the next week or so. My (rather obscure) questions are: When was the last time Melbourne didn't record a 30+ degree day in Spring? What is the latest date in the year for the first 30+ degree day? Cheers, Kevin from Wycheproof. P.S. More difficult question (since there haven't been official temps recorded here since the early '80s): If you were to use Birchip or Donald's records, are we getting close to a record late-season lack of 30+ temps here? >From: Blair Trewin >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >Subject: Re: aus-wx: Very low temps in the west >Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:14:53 +1100 (EST) > > > > > I noticed that some areas of inland WA had tmps up to 18 degrees below > > normal on Sunday - Warburton temps 7 (-9) to 17 (-18). Giles and a few > > others very low. Are these records, Blair? > > Don W > >Warburton doesn't have enough data for any records to be meaningful. >Giles's November record low max is 17.8 - this wasn't broken. The >most notable aspect of the current spell is how prolonged the cool >weather has been - Giles has now had 11 consecutive days below 30. >I haven't checked whether that is a record, but suspect it could be. > >Most of the Australian inland south of about latitude 20 S is prone >to occasional very large negative temperature anomalies in the summer >half of the year in a cloud/rain situation - most stations in this >region with a reasonable length of record have experienced at least >one day near or below 20 (compared to means typically in the 34-39 >range) in each summer month. The most striking example was the >maximum of 15.0 in Boulia on February 24, 1949 (outside of this >event, Boulia's lowest MINIMUM on record for February is 17.2!). >In especially wet months, like January 1974 (when 40 was not reached >anywhere in Queensland), cool conditions can persist for several >weeks, leading to very large negative anomalies, even on the monthly >timescale. That month saw monthly mean maximum anomalies in the -5 >to -7 C range over much of western Queensland, north-west NSW and the >southern Northern Territory. > >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------------------------------ ______________________________________________________ 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------------------------------ 016 From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cool Spring in south... To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:10:58 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > > Hi Blair, > > Further to your mails on sub-30 degree temperatures in Melbourne...here in > Wycheproof we are also still to experience a 30+ degree day (which in my > fifteen years here is quite unusual!), and little chance in the next week or > so. My (rather obscure) questions are: > > When was the last time Melbourne didn't record a 30+ degree day in Spring? 1992 (first day 10 December). > What is the latest date in the year for the first 30+ degree day? December 19 (1856). There's nothing especially unusual about not having had a 30+ day in Melbourne by, say, 17 November (the limit of the current models) - this has occurred in about 20% of years. It would be considerably more unusual in Wycheproof. > Cheers, > Kevin from Wycheproof. > > P.S. More difficult question (since there haven't been official temps > recorded here since the early '80s): If you were to use Birchip or Donald's > records, are we getting close to a record late-season lack of 30+ temps > here? > I'll need to have a look at this. The very cool spring of 1992 is the obvious benchmark. (Note that, so far, 1999 has been distinguished by its lack of warm and cool days, rather than mean temperatures - in Melbourne September and October had mean maximum temperatures well above average, and even November is running close to average so far). 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: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:47:37 +1100 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 [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: ASWA BoM radar archives:-( Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com All I can say is ! at #$%^&*() the BoM and their November radar password. For some reason, there was a unprinted carriage return character on the end of the password that was sent to me on 29/10/1999. This caused an "Unauthorised" http failure. As a result, from last Tuesday, all radar archives were lost:-( Today, I went to look at the archives to see about that "mini tornado" near Gympie and discovered that the radar archive had no files. Then I swore a lot and went hunting to discover that when I printed the November password to the screen in verbose mode, behold, there was a carriage return character on the end. So I deleted this rogue character, put the new password in the scripts and the radar archive restarted. In future, I will now check the password for such errors and check that the cutover happens on queue. I'll also set up some log files as I've done for satpics, poll these for errors and report automatically. That'll be a bit of a challenge to do efficiently. In past months, when I've been prepared, there have been no radar image files lost as a repeat attempt is made following the instant an "Unauthorised" error is found. Success is assumed for the second attempt with the new password. As the number of lost files is excessive, no recovery can be attempted. Satpics and BoM MSL analysis charts are OK. 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------------------------------ 018 From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Very low temps in the west To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:20:40 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > > > > > I noticed that some areas of inland WA had tmps up to 18 degrees below > > normal on Sunday - Warburton temps 7 (-9) to 17 (-18). Giles and a few > > others very low. Are these records, Blair? > > Don W > > Warburton doesn't have enough data for any records to be meaningful. > Giles's November record low max is 17.8 - this wasn't broken. The > most notable aspect of the current spell is how prolonged the cool > weather has been - Giles has now had 11 consecutive days below 30. > I haven't checked whether that is a record, but suspect it could be. Following up on this, the current record for the longest streak of sub- 30 days ending in November has been broken (previously 10, 29 October- 7 November 1956). The record for the longest streak commencing in October or later is 12 days (9-20 October 1974), which will be equalled today if it doesn't get to 30 (and with it currently sitting on 22 that seems a pretty good bet). Giles' mean max for the first 9 days of November is 24.0, 9.6 below normal. 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------------------------------ 019 From: "James Chambers" [jamestorm at ozemail.com.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: Re: aus-wx: ECL Bomb and the cricket... Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 17:24:28 +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 >Not being into cricket (I'm a Scot) didn't a tornadic / supercell event force >a draw with England (ssssss) once???? > >Les Hi Les and all Last year on November 24 strong thunderstorms swept through on the 5th day of the Aus V Eng Test thus forcing a draw. The storms were certainly entertaining but not so good for cricket! My report of the storms on Nov 24, '98 is here: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jourdey/storm/nov24_98.html The storms which extended a long way up the Qld Coast caused at least one tornado at Caloundra (north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast) and numerous reports of severe winds. While I'm at it, the Test Cricket Match between Aus and the Windies in Nov '92 was disrupted because of a storm producing quite a lot of golfball hail. The day of the F3 and F4 tornadoes in Oakhurst (near Gladstone) and Bucca (near Bundaberg)...now that was a day and a half! Report here: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm/reports/nov29_92.html Its fine today - which is good for the cricket...Aussies by 10 wickets...Slater's a legend! :) Regards James Chambers www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm.html +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Wintry hail shower in Blackheath Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 07:29:59 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id CAA22627 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com We've just had (from ~6.05 to ~6.20pm) a classic wintry hail shower in Blackheath. Sago-sized hail fell for about 8 to 10 minutes, nearly covering the ground and blocking guttering -- about 6mm precip in all. No wind. No thunder. Temperature has dropped to 6.2. Extraordinary! Laurier +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Wintry hail shower in Blackheath Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 07:37:42 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id CAA23551 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Two minutes ago I wrote >We've just had (from ~6.05 to ~6.20pm) a classic wintry hail shower in Blackheath. >Sago-sized hail fell for about 8 to 10 minutes, nearly covering the ground and blocking >guttering -- about 6mm precip in all. No wind. No thunder. Temperature has dropped >to 6.2. Extraordinary! As I hit the send button, rumbles of thunder came in from the north. There's now steady thunder in that direction. Radar shows patches of yellow on a blue background for much of the northeastern Central Tablelands and parts of the Hunter, all moving NE. Laurier +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: ECL not dead yet Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 07:56:31 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id CAA25014 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I've just looked at the mesoLAPS and latest AVN runs. The AVN shows a cold pool at 500hPa to be in the central Riverina at 12z tonight with central temp around -31, moving to around Port Macquarie by 00z tomorrow central temp around -28. The mesoLAPS develops a small but distict trough in the circulation of the Tasman Sea low in response to this cold air, sweeping it up the coast overnight, and also brings 20 to 50mm of rain just onto the coastal fringe from about Jervis Bay to Seal Rocks.. Could be an interesting night. Laurier +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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-Originating-IP: [203.35.254.2] From: "David Croan" [wxbustchase at hotmail.com] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Gympie tornado Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 19:56:55 EST Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, The tornado which affected Cedar Pocket, as reported to the list by Ben and John earlier, got a write up in the Sydney Daily Telegraph under the header 'Tornado hits Tiny town'. According to the report, witnesses describe the tornado as 'roaring in over a hill for about 1 km'. I wonder whether, since it is a 2 and a dog down, perhaps some ASWA members might be able to head up there and interview the locals (maybe he QLD guys are already doing this) - perhaps getting enough detail to fill out a storm report? Furthermore, since the town is south east of, and quite close to Gympie (and assuming the cell that dropped it was a classic supercell with the meso on the NW flank) I wonder if any observers in the larger town may have gotten pics or video. Im not sure what the topography is like but who knows it might be worth investigating. Anyway Im sure this sole report is the tip of the iceberg since it is apparent that conditions over the weekend up there were ripe for a decent outbreak of supercells. This high CAPE environemnt north of Brisbane must be a storm chasers dream when there is a dynamic wind profile. David ______________________________________________________ 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------------------------------ 024 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 19:03:13 +1000 From: Paul Miracki [pmiracki at powerup.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Brisbane Weather Photos Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hey all, Paul From Brisbane here. I have uploaded some photos from the storms on Sunday here in Brisbane that I took and also the octtober 24 storms. The page looks horrible at the momment but I will try and make it better when I get the time. http://www.powerup.com.au/~pmiracki/weather/wx.htm +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 19:26:06 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Australian Weather Mailing List [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Confirmation of Tornado near Gympie (Cedar Pocket) Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, As Ben mentioned earlier, Ben and I went up to Cedar Pocket, near Gympie (about a 2hr drive north of Brisbane), to survey the possible tornado damage. We were able to talk to an extremely helpful, and friendly farmer who witnessed the tornado. Him and his son watched as "sheets of iron went swirling high up into the air" - I asked for clarification on swirling, and he said it was definiately rotating. He estimated the iron to be reaching about 300 feet into the air, although he wasn't too sure. Everyone who we interviewed commented on how they heard a distinct roar, like a low-flying plane. The farmer also mentioned how it was strange that one minute it was pouring rain, the next it stopped and the wind came up, and soon after there was one final burst of rain. The farmer's son took us down to an area where the tornado had gone through a small area of bush/forest. On the way down, we noticed a piece of iron - about 500m (at least!) from the nearest house! The damage to the forest was not extensive, a mixture of small/medium/large trees all either pushed over, or snapped. One thing that was noticable was the allignment of the damage, everything was facing in slightly different circles, you could actually make out a very approximate circle!!! The shrubs and long grasses were even more noticable, being pushed in different directions again. There was debris all scattered through the field beside the forest, extending for about 200m away, which is where the tornado apparently stopped. The farmer also owned one of the houses that were damaged, and allowed us to walk around "where we please" and investigate the damage. The house had been tarped up, but it had about half of its roof missing. Lots of trees down around the house, branches/plaster was scattered everywhere - and a reasonable amount of corrugated iron too, some of it was wrapped around trees. One thing that was strange, and certainly surprising was that a piece of iron was located about 200m away from the edge of the damage path near the road! One could only speculate that it was thrown there, certainly a dammed long way. There was one HUGE tree that appeared to litterally be ripped out of the ground. It had a massive base, about 3m X 3m, I had to step back a fair way just to git it into a 28mm lens. It left about a 5ft crater in the ground - it didn't have many branches/leaves though - just very thick (the trunk was 2-3 feet thick) and fairly tall. On some of the fencing, we noticed some barb wire had been snapped...it had some branches lying on it, you wouldn't think it'd be strong enough to snap the barb wire though, but they had been clearing trees from the area, and maybe a larger tree had fallen on it. Last, and the 'finale' was a house another 200m behind the other house. >From the front, the house appeared to be in tact, apart from some roof missing on the top. We talked to the owner (who was rather distraught understandably) and he allowed us to have a look around. What a shock we got when we went behind the house - half of it was gone!!!!!!! Not damaged, just gone! All except one wall was gone (we never found the walls, or the roof of this house, so I'd say it would have effectively disintegrated.) It was a weatherboard home, but it was by no means weak, or look weak. Interesting how the tornado damaged some things, and leaved other things virtually untouched. The playhouse was fine, except for a large piece of metal wrapped around it, and a big dent on the side. The other thing I took note of, was how one window (in the section of the house that was virtually unscathed) had been blown out, with a curtain still stuck the broken edges of the glass. Other interesting notes, were how there was corrugated iron wrapped around trees before the first of the houses!! An educated guess and further speculation would assume that as the tornado moved through, it carried debris back behind the house, wrapping it around trees. Again, lots of plaster/iron around, and some rubbish too, apparently the sofa had been blown out into the field, but they had brought it back inside. Further reports I received from interviewees, was that a funnel was actually sighted on the outskirts of the city of Gympie. Cedar Pocket is about 10km or so (as the crow flies) from Gympie. The damage appeared to be about 1km in length, although it may have gone for longer, it tracked (or begun rather) in an area inaccessible (well, we didn't feel like hiking up anymore hills!) The width was about 100m wide at the widest section. I personally believe this tornado was at least an F1, certainly a high F1. The damage done to the worse hit house was F3 - but given the damage was done to a weatherboard house, it could be debated on whether this would have had the same effect on a brick house. Hopefully some photos will be available for people to see in the next 24-48hrs. To answer David Croan's question (which just came in) - yes, we have already investigated it under QLD ASWA's Damage Assessment Project :) -- Anthony Cornelius Queensland Coordinator of the Australian Severe Weather Association (ASWA) (07) 3390 4812 14 Kinsella St Belmont, Brisbane QLD, 4153 Please report severe thunderstorms on our Queensland severe thunderstorm reporting line on (07) 3390 4218 or by going to our homepage at 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------------------------------ 026 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 19:48:21 -0800 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: ECL not dead yet Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Might just stay up tonight for a while :-) Lindsay P. Laurier Williams wrote: > > I've just looked at the mesoLAPS and latest AVN runs. The AVN shows a > cold pool at 500hPa to be in the central Riverina at 12z tonight with > central temp around -31, moving to around Port Macquarie by 00z > tomorrow central temp around -28. The mesoLAPS develops a small but > distict trough in the circulation of the Tasman Sea low in response to > this cold air, sweeping it up the coast overnight, and also brings 20 > to 50mm of rain just onto the coastal fringe from about Jervis Bay to > Seal Rocks.. > > Could be an interesting night. > > Laurier > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ 027 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 19:46:56 -0800 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: Wintry hail shower in Blackheath Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Yeah, exciting Laurier. I was waiting for you to comment as it seemed pretty extraordinary to me too. It was like soft shards of ice falling against the window and that was exactly the temp I got, well I had 6.3 actually. Very interesting. Right now, at 8:30 pm the rain that is falling looks like melted snow, its sort of largish, flurry type rain, hard to explain and it is chilly. Lindsay Pearce Laurier Williams wrote: > > We've just had (from ~6.05 to ~6.20pm) a classic wintry hail shower in > Blackheath. Sago-sized hail fell for about 8 to 10 minutes, nearly > covering the ground and blocking guttering -- about 6mm precip in all. > No wind. No thunder. Temperature has dropped to 6.2. Extraordinary! > > Laurier > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ 028 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 04:10:41 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Graham [tornado at hobbiton.org] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Hunter Valley (NSW) Storm Cell... Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Fairly persistent storm cell heading towards the Singleton area. Also some other cells extending S along the ranges. Fairly cold unstable airstream at present in the east. - 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------------------------------ 029 X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:31:10 +1100 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au] Subject: Re: aus-wx: ECL Bomb and the cricket... Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com James and the rest of the list, Malcom from Sydney ASWA will be eventually posting some great photos of aftermath damage on his site about this second F3 tornado near Oakhurst!!! I do believe that someone there should have a photo of this tornado... well I suspect they do if you look around for it. Jimmy Deguara At 17:24 9/11/99 +1000, you wrote: > >Not being into cricket (I'm a Scot) didn't a tornadic / supercell event >force > >a draw with England (ssssss) once???? > > > >Les > >Hi Les and all > >Last year on November 24 strong thunderstorms swept through on the 5th day >of the Aus V Eng Test thus forcing a draw. The storms were certainly >entertaining but not so good for cricket! My report of the storms on Nov >24, '98 is here: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jourdey/storm/nov24_98.html >The storms which extended a long way up the Qld Coast caused at least one >tornado at Caloundra (north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast) and numerous >reports of severe winds. > >While I'm at it, the Test Cricket Match between Aus and the Windies in Nov >'92 was disrupted because of a storm producing quite a lot of golfball hail. >The day of the F3 and F4 tornadoes in Oakhurst (near Gladstone) and Bucca >(near Bundaberg)...now that was a day and a half! Report here: >http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm/reports/nov29_92.html > >Its fine today - which is good for the cricket...Aussies by 10 >wickets...Slater's a legend! :) > >Regards >James Chambers >www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm.html > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ 030 From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: Re: aus-wx: "Southern Exposure" (slightly OT) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 22:13:09 +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 Yes please, bring a copy with you. Michael > > There's a TV series on the UK's Channel 4 about severe weather in > Australia, starting with cyclones and the Great Barrier Reef.... next > week it's about severe weather in NSW, somewhat timely, anyone want a > copy as I'll b recording it. > > Happy hunting everyone, keep some for us. > > Les (UK) > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ 031 From: "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au] To: "Aussie Weather" [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Cc: "WX-CHASE" Subject: aus-wx: Victorian chase report Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 22:17:40 +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 I've just put up the preliminary chase report from last Saturday out near Sale in eastern Victoria (photos & some additional info yet to go up sometime early next week). Go to the 'new' redesigned main page of MSC http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence and click on the photo on the top right side which hyperlinks to '6th November - Sale - Jane ONeill'. ....and if you have a spare moment, I'd also appreciate any feedback about the main page design as well from those of you out there who are just a bit more creative & design oriented than yours truly . 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------------------------------ 032 X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 22:34:33 +1100 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au] Subject: aus-wx: More photos to look at if you feel bored Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com We have more photos people may want to look at. the following clouds by date: http://www.australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/photography/photos/index.html http://www.australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/photography/photos/1999/ind ex13.html http://www.australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/photography/photos/1999/ind ex12.html I wonder what people make out of about half way down. Supercell perhaps certainly had the structure and developed along the trough line. Nice overshoot anyway http://www.australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/photography/photos/1999/ind ex11.html Or by categories of clouds http://www.australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/photography/index.html +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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------------------------------ 033 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:39:16 +0000 From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net] Organization: Personal - ICQ 17296776 - note all times in GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: "Southern Exposure" (slightly OT) Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Michael Thompson wrote: > Yes please, bring a copy with you. > #1 just comitted to Jpeg CDROM!! 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------------------------------