From                                           Subject
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001 Paul Mossman [paulmoss at tpgi.com.au]            Great Lightning show on here tonight.................
002 Paul Mossman [paulmoss at tpgi.com.au]            UPDATE on possible TC in Coral sea.
003 Carl Smith [carls at ace-net.com.au]              Re: Qld TC links corrected!
004 Carl Smith [carls at ace-net.com.au]              TC Watch cancelled, however TC still developing.
005 "Patrick Tobin" [patricktobin at ozemail.com.au]  Hot in sthn Vic
006 "Nick Sykes" [njsykes at yahoo.com]               Cool Change hits Melbourne
007 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]        Cool Change hits Melbourne
008 "John Woodbridge" [jrw at pixelcom.net]           Brisbane-wx
009 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]              Brisbane-wx
010 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]              Big Chase Update
011 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   Highest Public Pools in Australia?
012 Patrick_Tobin at ama.com.au                       Big Chase Update
013 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]              Big Chase Update
014 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]           New radar site at Captains Flat
015 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]           Telegraph Weather Article
016 "Rod Aikman" [raikman at hotmail.com]             Cool change at Bendigo
017 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]           End-of-Year Chase update   Jimmy Deguara
018 "John Woodbridge" [jrw at pixelcom.net]           Brisbane-wx
019 astroman [astroman at chariot.net.au]             Lightning audio wanted

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001
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:28:42 +0930
From: Paul Mossman [paulmoss at tpgi.com.au]
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Excellent lightning show on here at the moment.

Lightning happening every1 or 2 seconds from multiple storms to North /
North East. Alot is cc but some cg bringing great deep booming
thunder...

Paul at Darwin.
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:32:40 +0930
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PRIORITY
TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 2
Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane
For 11 pm EST on Thursday the 2nd of December 1999

A Tropical Cyclone Watch is current for coastal and island communities
between Thursday Island and Cooktown.

At 11 pm a tropical low with estimated central pressure 1002 hPa was
centred
near latitude 12.6 south longitude 145.8 east, which is 230 kilometres
east of
Lockhart River.

The low is expected to drift very slowly west and may develop into a
tropical
cyclone. 

People between Thursday Island and Cooktown should take preliminary
precautions
and consider what action they will need to take if the threat increases. 

The next advice will be issued at 5 am.
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Hi All,

I apologise to any of you who may have visited my current info page at
http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/current.htm and found the 1st 2 links to
the current Qld developing TC didn't work!!!

I copied the links OK, but ommited the BoM server, uploaded, got interupted
by incoming call, and didn't get back to check!!! :-(

Anyway they have been corrected now, I just checked them, and they are
working just fine :-)

Advice No 2 has been issued, looks like our TC season is finally underway!

I am preparing a map for an animation now, so will let you know when it is
uploaded.

Regards,
Carl.

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Hi All.

The Tropical Cyclone Watch for Thursday Island to Cooktown has been
cancelled, however the system is still expected to become a TC, it is now
moving away from the coast. Latest Ocean Wind Warning pasted below.

I will continue to keep an eye on it.

Regards,
Carl.

IDW01Q00
SECURITE

HIGH SEAS WEATHER WARNING FOR METAREA 10 ISSUED BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF
METEOROLOGY, BRISBANE 1827UTC 2 DECEMBER 1999

GALE WARNING FOR NORTH EASTERN AREA

= SITUATION
A tropical low with a central pressure of 1002 hectopascals centred at 1800 UTC
near 13.0 south 146.5 east and moving slowly east. Position poor.

= AREA AFFECTED
Within 60nm of the low centre.

= FORECAST
Expect clockwise winds 25 to 33 knots within 60 nm of the centre gradually
increasing to 30 to 40 knots in the next 12 to 24 hours.

Seas and swell 2 to 3 metres increasing to 3 to 4 metres in the next 12 to 24
hours.

Forecast position at 030600UTC 13.2S 147.5E with maximum winds to 35 knots.
Forecast position at 031800UTC 13.7S 148.5E with maximum winds to 35 knots.


= REMARKS
Nil

= WEATHER BRISBANE +

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Carl Smith.
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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At 8.00am I notice in Gippsland that the LaTrobe 
Valley is already 30 and East Sale is at 31.
 
Hamilton looks like it is getting a good pasting 
at the moment.
 
Patrick

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Many people in Melbourne are now rejoicing as the cool change is now
sweeping through , accompanied by severe wind squalls. A nice squall has
just moved through my place and the temperature has dropped from 28 to 21 in
a matter of minutes.

Melbourne suffered through a painful night last night, the overnight
temperature not dropping below 26. No rain yet but radar shows a nice
rainband out to the west, though the models have it dieing in the ass as it
heads east.

Well after 4 days of heat, working in a huge tin warehouse, dieing of heat
exhaustion the change has come and it's my day off, grrrr.

And as luck will have it, back to work on Monday and the heat is tipped to
return. Typical!!!!


Nick (didn't have much sleep last night) Sykes


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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cool Change hits Melbourne
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> Many people in Melbourne are now rejoicing as the cool change is now
> sweeping through , accompanied by severe wind squalls. A nice squall has
> just moved through my place and the temperature has dropped from 28 to 21 in
> a matter of minutes.

I was annoyed it couldn't have held off until after 9 (it hit the
central city at 8.25) - if we're going to suffer through a night like
that the least we can ask is that it goes in the book! I'll be 
interested to see the minima at places that the change didn't reach 
by 9 (e.g. Coldstream, the Latrobe Valley, maybe Scoresby).

> Melbourne suffered through a painful night last night, the overnight
> temperature not dropping below 26. No rain yet but radar shows a nice
> rainband out to the west, though the models have it dieing in the ass as it
> heads east.

Some heavy falls further west - 42mm at Mt. Gambier, 36mm at Portland.

(snip)

Blair Trewin

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Hi All,

The SE regime has finally deepened to the point where we are getting a few
Cu streets form and brief showers.

Scored a nice little funnel cloud yesterday from a similar Cu street with
dark base and lowerings over the Redbank area around 2:00pm.  Funnel cloud
was just ahead of a lowering, and lasted around 5 mins and was a very
sharply defined elephants trunk for most of it.  I noticed it while I was on
the phone to some twit in Sydney, and by the time I got off the phone & got
the camera out, it was starting to dissipate - but photo obtained
nonetheless.

Today looks promising for a repeat performance.

John.

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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:51:15 +1100
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Hey John, Everyone..

I actually saw quite a nice prong (yes, i said a prong) on a coastal
shower/large congestus shower yesterday afternoon around 5:30pm .. the
shower was very close to my south, and the prong was quite well defined
and lasted for about 5 mins.. it showed no signs or rotation at all, but
i was surprised at how defined it was - considering how close i was to
it.. the shower was part of a cluster of low topped, but fairly well
defined (well defined for coastal stuff anyway) cluster of large Cu and
Congestus that moved over the top of me.. as this cluster moved over me
i had a period of sustained 25-30 knot winds, which then stopped all of
a sudden with a heavy shower with very large drops about 20 seconds
later.. then the sun came back out! All this while i'm trying to talk on
the phone to a potential employer!

There was a reasonable amount of vertical extent to the Cu around this
morning as well.. we had quite a nice upper level system develop over us
yesterday, and this has developed into an upper level low overnight and
is sitting just off the southern QLD coast.. I have been saying that i
think there could be some storms off this southern QLD coast associated
with this low in the BSCH forecasts for the past few days, and looking
at the latest satellite picture it looks like they are starting to
develop.. considering we're on the western edge of the low (and it's
moving slowly away from us) there is probably only a very small chance
of us seeing anything decent to the east, or any lightning around
tonight.. but stranger things have happened.. we've had SE winds for
yonks so i'm clutching on to any hope of decent weather at the moment..


John Woodbridge wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> The SE regime has finally deepened to the point where we are getting a few
> Cu streets form and brief showers.
> 
> Scored a nice little funnel cloud yesterday from a similar Cu street with
> dark base and lowerings over the Redbank area around 2:00pm.  Funnel cloud
> was just ahead of a lowering, and lasted around 5 mins and was a very
> sharply defined elephants trunk for most of it.  I noticed it while I was on
> the phone to some twit in Sydney, and by the time I got off the phone & got
> the camera out, it was starting to dissipate - but photo obtained
> nonetheless.
> 
> Today looks promising for a repeat performance.
> 
> John.
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 12:28:13 +1100
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Hey Ben from Brisbane here..

Once again not a very interesting update.. but in case people are
wondering, the chasers are currently heading for yass in SE NSW, and
they will more than likely head further ENE to Goulburn later on today..

At the moment it's quite hot where they are (35c or so they estimate)
and very very dry with a RH of around 15-20% with clear skies with
streaks of cirrus.. They are some distance ahead of the trough at the
moment, and i think they are probably in a reasonably good position for
any action with the latest EC run moving the trough east to between
about Sydney and Canberra by 12z tonight..

John Woodbridge wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> The SE regime has finally deepened to the point where we are getting a few
> Cu streets form and brief showers.
> 
> Scored a nice little funnel cloud yesterday from a similar Cu street with
> dark base and lowerings over the Redbank area around 2:00pm.  Funnel cloud
> was just ahead of a lowering, and lasted around 5 mins and was a very
> sharply defined elephants trunk for most of it.  I noticed it while I was on
> the phone to some twit in Sydney, and by the time I got off the phone & got
> the camera out, it was starting to dissipate - but photo obtained
> nonetheless.
> 
> Today looks promising for a repeat performance.
> 
> John.
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 07:05:13 -0800
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Thanks Michael,

That's a great little summary there. All I can say is that Blackheath
(unheated) is VERY cold at the start of the season in October. I'd
reckon it is below 12. I actually continue to shiver the whole time I'm
in the pool whilst doing my laps in October. I swam in Penrith pool
yesterday (thursday) and I was actually sweating as I got out of the
pool, it felt so hot compared to our pool. And it seemed much easier to
"Cut" through the water at Penrith too. 20 laps at Penrith would seem
like around 10 at Blackheath.

Lindsay Pearce.

Michael Scollay wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Lindsay wrote on Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:14:42 -0800:
> >
> > My partner and I were today wondering (after an incredibly
> > cold dip in our own local pool) if anyone knows what the
> > highest outdoor public pool in Australia is?
> 
> In my travels, I've noticed outdoor ones at Guyra (1325m) and
> Armidale (1080m/987m) also. I've had a swim at Oberon (1190m),
> Blackheath (1025m) and Katoomba (well below 1030m). All of these
> are totally "public" as far as I know. But if you are going for
> "open to the public", not necessarily all indoor sheer class and
> altitude, the AIS complex at Thredbo (1380m) is hard to beat and
> open to the public for very reasonable fees. It has a fully
> equipped workout gym, basketball/netball courts, 50m and 25m
> heated pools, a water slide that ventures outside, a wading pool
> and snow outside in the winter:-) There are also pools within
> other snow-based lodges and complexes at Perisher Valley (1735m),
> Mt Hotham (1849m), Mt Buller (1707m) and Falls Creek (1767m) that
> you can get into if you ask nicely. There's even a spa-pool at
> Blue Cow (1905m) but I've never been prepared. One of the ones
> at Mt Hotham I hear is really classy with both indoor and outdoor
> sections that one can swim between. This is somewhat like I had
> the  pleasure of experiencing at Aspen (2290m) in Colorado back
> in a really snowy January in 1984. As for pool cold extremes,
> it's hard to beat Katoomba during one cold outbreak in March
> 1977, I think. The pool was then unheated and a chilly 12C while
> sleet and wet snow came tumbling down briefly at the tail-end of
> a strong cold front that passed through during our high-school
> swimming carnival! I hope that has wetted your appetite for
> chilly dips...
> 
> Michael Scollay       mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Sadly, I don't think they will find much activity around here
(Goulburn/Yass)today.

A hot,dry NW is blowing, there are a few pancake cu very gradually increasing
(horizontally - that is) and a slowly thickening Ci layer.

Radar shows the cloud band is rapidly weakening out and this morning's
Wagga sounding is terrible. All in all a good day for a good book or
a pleasant waterhole with cold refreshments.

SW Victoria looked like the pick of the action today.

Central NSW may look better tomorrow as the trough slows and moisture
ahead of it increases.

Patrick

 ............................................

Once again not a very interesting update.. but in case people are
wondering, the chasers are currently heading for yass in SE NSW, and
they will more than likely head further ENE to Goulburn later on today..

At the moment it's quite hot where they are (35c or so they estimate)
and very very dry with a RH of around 15-20% with clear skies with
streaks of cirrus.. They are some distance ahead of the trough at the
moment, and i think they are probably in a reasonably good position for
any action with the latest EC run moving the trough east to between
about Sydney and Canberra by 12z tonight..


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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 14:12:27 +1100
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Hey Patrick, everyone..

I only just got the chance to really go over the forecast for SE NSW
today (i was only looking at the MSLP up to now) and you're right, it's
looking quite horrible for them today.. the LI's are not hovering around
0 as i thought they may be, but up around the +2 to +4 or +5 range.. I'm
glad they were already heading to Yass/Goulburn, otherwise i'd be
feeling guilty about giving them a bum steer!

Patrick_Tobin at ama.com.au wrote:
> 
> Sadly, I don't think they will find much activity around here
> (Goulburn/Yass)today.
> 
> A hot,dry NW is blowing, there are a few pancake cu very gradually increasing
> (horizontally - that is) and a slowly thickening Ci layer.
> 
> Radar shows the cloud band is rapidly weakening out and this morning's
> Wagga sounding is terrible. All in all a good day for a good book or
> a pleasant waterhole with cold refreshments.
> 
> SW Victoria looked like the pick of the action today.
> 
> Central NSW may look better tomorrow as the trough slows and moisture
> ahead of it increases.
> 
> Patrick
> 
>  ............................................
> 
> Once again not a very interesting update.. but in case people are
> wondering, the chasers are currently heading for yass in SE NSW, and
> they will more than likely head further ENE to Goulburn later on today..
> 
> At the moment it's quite hot where they are (35c or so they estimate)
> and very very dry with a RH of around 15-20% with clear skies with
> streaks of cirrus.. They are some distance ahead of the trough at the
> moment, and i think they are probably in a reasonably good position for
> any action with the latest EC run moving the trough east to between
> about Sydney and Canberra by 12z tonight..
> 
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Great to see you do that Patrick. Hopefully this storm we got in SE Qld
may be a tornado... Before people jump on their heads, I am going to have
the Bureau look at it and see what they think. Certainly an interesting
dust whirl that persisted in one spot as well as very fine funnel but
invisibly in between...



Jimmy Deguara



At 21:33 26/11/99 +1100, you wrote:

Hi all,

 

I attended a BOM storm spotters seminar at Queanbeyan today.
Whilst I didn't actually learn a lot that anyone who has been on this
list for a while wouldn't otherwise know, there were a few interesting
tidbits to keep my attention - and some interesting storm slides. (Sadly
the field examples I had been hoping for didn't develop in this region
today - other than some distant cb tops visible to the far
north.)

 

What was particularly significant was the announcement by
Clem Jones, OIC Canberra BOM, that a new radar site will be established
at Captains Flat and should be operational in the next 6 months. This is
great news for Canberra (a long way from Sydney and the intermittently
offline Wagga). It will also provide much needed improved coverage for
large areas of the Southern Tablelands (and eastern parts of the Snowy
Mtns) as well as the South Coast and up to the Illawarra. A lot of low
and middle level cloud rain events in SE NSW currently go completely
undetected on radar and many storms are underestimated or not seen -
especially if Wagga is offline for radiosonde tracking.

 

As the group in the spotter seminar were mostly NSW National
Parks staff and a few Canberra emergency service personnel, it was
interesting to (again) pick up perceptions of what members of the general
public know about storms/severe weather.

 

There were questions about the difference between cyclones
and tornadoes, amazement when the reality of tornadoes in Australia was
explained. There was further amusement about Twister and the fact that
people in the US might actually chase storms with the hope of finding
tornadoes. 

 

At this stage I had to explain that as I spoke there was
currently a team of 20-30 Australians (+ a couple from o/s) who were
roaming NW NSW and Sthn Qld with precisely the aim of finding severe
storms and hoping to observe tornadoes. 

 

The group was left speechless; there were then a couple of
questions along the lines of "are they mad", "isn't it
dangerous"? 

 

I explained that while there were risks, the people
concerned had a pretty good idea of the structure of storms and could use
their knowledge to manage the degree to which they placed themselves at
risk. One of the aims of the Australian chase was to increase our
knowledge of the storms that occur in areas of low population
density.

 

I wished I had more forcefully made the point that the
bigger risk is borne by the general public - unaware of the real dangers
posed by Australian storms. I think that message was made pretty clear
during the course of the day - the slides of Australian tornadoes
certainly reinforced the point.

 

Sorry about the essay,

 

Patrick




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Slightly mis-interpreted but yeh I got a mention. It was a bit hard trying 
to conduct a conversation over the mobile phone out at Broken Hill whilst 
trying to quickly fuel, eat and head for Mildura. Oh well - this was a 
surprise phone call.

Jimmy Deguara

At 23:05 2/12/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Hey everyone,
>
>For all those who don't know their was a article in todays Daily Telegraph
>about our current weather systems, in that we are getting cycles where we
>are having wet, cool weekends.
>There was a mention of the high commander himself, jimmy d.
>http://www.news.com.au/news_content/state_content/4354384.htm
>Looks like there could be some activity on the ranges and escarpments around
>Sydney tommorrow. Although there is no mention of storms in our metro
>forecast, the southern and central tablelands have storms forecast for the
>next 4 days straight.
>
>Daniel Weatherhead
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Hi everyone,
            Certainly an interesting sequence of events leading up to and 
following the cool change here this morning. By 01:30 the temperature had 
fallen to 23 deg., then by 02:00 it had risen to 27 deg, at which point it 
plateaud until the cold front crossed at 07:30. By 09:00 the temperature had 
plunged to 15.0 deg. The barograph rose 7 mb between 07:30 and 09:00. 
Squally westerly winds accompanied the cold front, which brought down 
several tree limbs across the city, however little other damage resulted. 
Rain commenced at 08:50 and continued until 10:30, resulting in a 
disappointing total of only 5.4 mm.
Rod Aikman,
Bendigo, Vic.

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Hi,

I arrived from Albury this evening. The rest of the guys  except Dane, Matt 
Piper and myself are off to around Bathurst to Mudge this evening and will 
wait on the Hunter or thereabouts to fire for tomorrow. It should be 
interesting as the change has passed through Sydney tonight about 10:35pm. 
This should feed a little moisture into the stagnated trough. Hopefully 
things will fire in the Hunter.

I am planning to head for the Hunter tomorrow and then stay with group 
locally for Sunday before heading home late Sunday. If anyone would like to 
tag along with me, by all means contact me tomorrow morning say around 7am 
on the mobile  0408020468. Not the best of storms expected but storms 
nevertheless.

Jimmy Deguara

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Hi All,

Well after a promising morning start, it all blew away in the afternoon to
be a nearly completely clear sky by dusk.  Once again the temp struggled to
just reach 25C at the airport.  They say that summer is coming any day real
soooonnn now.  But the ridge looks like being reinforced by the next high,
so nothin's gonna change in the near future, just more cool & boring S/SE's.

John.

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Hi all,

I am currently testing a new program to save the static developed from 
lightning strikes in audio format, but we don't have any storms in the area 
which would help. Does anyone have any recordings of static interference 
from an electrical storm that I could test with. Anything from 5 seconds to 
1 minute would be handy also need it in WAV format as well. Could you 
please describe what mode you received the static on as well ie. USB, LSB, 
AM, FM, etc... and also how far away approx the storm was from you.

Thanks in Advance

Andrew Wall

PS you can send the file over Email or you can give me the link to the file 
if that would be easier..
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