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001 "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com] Weather Lore and theory...
002 Carl Smith [carls at ace-net.com.au] Re: Weather Lore and theory...
003 "Nick Sykes" [njsykes at yahoo.com] Another Melbourne Heat Wave??
004 "Nick Sykes" [njsykes at yahoo.com] Another Melbourne Heat Wave??
005 "Peter Tristram" [petertri at midcoast.com.au] Highest Public Pools in Australia?
006 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au] First chase a failure
007 Paul Mossman [paulmoss at tpgi.com.au] My new page
008 Carl Smith [carls at ace-net.com.au] Re: My new page
009 Jacob [jacob at iinet.net.au] First old century of the summer in Perth
010 "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com] 7631 kms later
011 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] Big Chase Update
012 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au] Fwd: Re: data and video stills FOR THOSE INTERESTED
013 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au] Tornado??
014 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] Back from the "End of Year Chase"
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From: "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com]
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Subject: aus-wx: Weather Lore and theory...
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 02:51:25 EST
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Hi every1,
In the years that I've been surfing the 'web for weather information there
has been one really annoying aspect... a lot of information is in HTML which
has required either a very long log-on or super speed-reading and retention
(i.e. "click on the word for more information")
For people with limited access (and poor memories, like me!) I've always
wanted sites where I could just download the pages, maybe print them out for
later perusal, but be able to actually read at leisure the stuff that people
post! (and not forty pages with tabs marked!)
So...I've started a crusade (actually it seems anti-net but isn't) for
easier access to the stuff on the 'net.
What I'm trying to do is make it easy for people who don't have infinite web
access to download informative, useful, interesting or just plain weird
information, in PDF format (using Adobe Acrobat I guess) that can be printed
out straight away...
Whoooh...glad I got THAT off my chest...
well anyway, I've been raiding some of the best sites on the 'net
(especially Gilberte Sebenste's) and converting the more inter-active bits
into linear articles...my first try is as follows...
http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/manchester/4/requests.html
click on the "Tornadogenesis" thing...it's in .zip format...which seems to
be the easiest way for me (on a Mac) to upload...and then use Acrobat Reader
to view....
I'm interested in three things
[1] Did it open and show all pix? and
[2] Is it worth my while continuing with more sites?
[3] Do I have to .zip files to upload (for PDF files)?
Thanx for your forbearance,
Kevin from Wycheproof.
P.S. I've played sub-editor pretty freely...
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From: Carl Smith [carls at ace-net.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: Re: Weather Lore and theory...
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Hi Kevin.
You wrote:
>In the years that I've been surfing the 'web for weather information there
>has been one really annoying aspect... a lot of information is in HTML which
>has required either a very long log-on or super speed-reading and retention
>(i.e. "click on the word for more information")
>
>For people with limited access (and poor memories, like me!) I've always
>wanted sites where I could just download the pages, maybe print them out for
>later perusal, but be able to actually read at leisure the stuff that people
>post! (and not forty pages with tabs marked!)
I noticed you use a Mac, so there may be a simple solution for you.
Have you tried the new pre-release iCab browser? It's available for
Macintosh only (sorry Wintel users).
It is built to the strict W3c HTML 4.0 standard (unlike NS and MSIE) with
built in HTML Error Check for web page debugging, and settings to emulate
Netscape and IE if you want it to.
It has loads of user friendly features, including the ability to save web
pages as web-archives (compressed HTML + images in .zip format), or you can
save them in HTML or text format and save the images seperately.
There is a Download Manager that enables simultaneous multiple downloads,
and you can set the depth of linked pages you want to download, say 3 or 4
links deep, including pages linked to on other servers if you wish, - you
can even download a complete website or the whole server in one operation
if you want - great for downloading weather file archives from FSU/HURR or
elsewhere - it takes me 10 minutes to get 6 days of 24 files each (144
files) from the FSU/HURR archive, which is far quicker than trying to sift
through them and save the ones I want online.
It prints direct from a web page, web-archive, any HTML or text page on a
server or on your Desktop, with various settings to allow printing any
width page, including images and frames, on A4 paper.
And it only takes up a miniscule 2.2 MB HD space and uses only 3 MB RAM
(68K version), and is the fastest full featured browser I have ever used.
You can download the PowerPC version direct from:
http://members.aol.com/joppich/iCab_Pre1.8_English_PPC.sit
or the 68K version direct from:
http://members.aol.com/icab68k/iCab_Pre1.8_English_68k.sit
You will need StuffIt Expander or another utility that unpacks .sit files.
If any one else on the list uses a Mac, give it a try - it's free - and you
will probably trash your old browser in disgust in a few days if you do!
You also wrote:
>I'm interested in three things
>[1] Did it open and show all pix? and
>[2] Is it worth my while continuing with more sites?
>[3] Do I have to .zip files to upload (for PDF files)?
[1] Don't know, I have not been there yet, and if it is .zip-ed PDF files,
I'm unlikely to do so - .zip files need to be downloaded and unpacked, and
PDF files require something like the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which I only
load if I absolutely have to for some reason, then trash it afterwards -
not that there is anything wrong with it, but it uses heaps of HD space and
RAM, and PDF is a very inefficient and inflexible way of displaying
information (I only have a small Mac and don't have a CD ROM).
[2] Don't know, if you try the new browser above, you may decide that there
are alternative ways of doing things that are more widely accessable and
far more flexible and efficient.
[3] You don't need to .zip compress PDF files, they can be uploaded as is -
I come across them frequently, and try to avoid them if there is any
alternative (see [1] above).
Please do not take this the wrong way, I simply have an alternative
viewpoint, and if you are happy in what you are doing, please continue :-)
Regards,
Carl.
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Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
carls at ace-net.com.au
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Subject: aus-wx: Another Melbourne Heat Wave??
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:42:21 +1100
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Hey all
It looks like another week of uncomfortable sleeping for Melbournites. All
models are predicting the heat wave to start on Tuesday, possibility of
Monday depending on the strength of the sea breeze.
The BOM on the radio this morning sounded very confident about this heat
wave saying "Temps above the mid-30's mid next week". The trough that is
forecasted to bring the change is showing signs of slowing on some models
and the likely timing of the change is now Thursday some time (well that's
my tip).
The MRF 10 day temp forecast has a freaky area of 6-8 above normal
temperatures forecasted for Northern Vic, Southern NSW Victoria.
http://grads.iges.org/pix/temp7.html
NGP has the change coming through earlier on Wednesday.
I'm tipping the first 40 degree day for Melbourne with this heatwave.
The weather patterns have certainly changed now in Melbourne. After an
eternity to get our first 30+ day it now looks likely out first 40+ could
occur only 2 weeks later. Ahh Melbourne, got to love the changeability.
Nick from an enjoyably cool Melbourne.
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Another Melbourne Heat Wave??
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 22:33:51 +1100
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The fire weather briefing is going for a weak change to enter western vic on
late Tuesday, hopefully really weak.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDF30V05.txt
Nick
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From: Nick Sykes [njsykes at yahoo.com]
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Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 9:42 PM
Subject: aus-wx: Another Melbourne Heat Wave??
> Hey all
>
> It looks like another week of uncomfortable sleeping for Melbournites. All
> models are predicting the heat wave to start on Tuesday, possibility of
> Monday depending on the strength of the sea breeze.
>
> The BOM on the radio this morning sounded very confident about this heat
> wave saying "Temps above the mid-30's mid next week". The trough that is
> forecasted to bring the change is showing signs of slowing on some models
> and the likely timing of the change is now Thursday some time (well that's
> my tip).
>
> The MRF 10 day temp forecast has a freaky area of 6-8 above normal
> temperatures forecasted for Northern Vic, Southern NSW Victoria.
>
> http://grads.iges.org/pix/temp7.html
>
> NGP has the change coming through earlier on Wednesday.
>
> I'm tipping the first 40 degree day for Melbourne with this heatwave.
>
> The weather patterns have certainly changed now in Melbourne. After an
> eternity to get our first 30+ day it now looks likely out first 40+ could
> occur only 2 weeks later. Ahh Melbourne, got to love the changeability.
>
> Nick from an enjoyably cool Melbourne.
>
>
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From: "Peter Tristram" [petertri at midcoast.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Highest Public Pools in Australia?
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 10:45:43 +1100
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From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Highest Public Pools in Australia?
Yarrangobilly Caves sports a the best 'antique' pool (25m x 15m approx) I
know AND of at a constant temperature of 27 degrees. Altitude is about
1200m - great place to have a dip in winter/spring after a cold change when
there's snow all around but the sun is out. The water is crystal clear.
Peter
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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:47:54 +1100
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From: Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: First chase a failure
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Hi Matthew,
You can ask many others about chasing and how many busts they have had.
Nobody like busts but really it goes to show just how hard it is to chase
in Australia and how unpredictable weather is. You were not the only one
to have a bust that day. All the guys had a bust as well and were in
position to chase any of those cells. The instability was there but it
became too dry.
In future, I can offer a few suggestions.
Try to leave a little earlier as you may find you are not able to make
certain places in time for the development of the cumulus and the pattern
it may exhibit for development.
Make sure that the distance you travel is worth the risk - I think the
day you chose, the LI was expected to be 0 to -3 and therefore such a
distance would be very risky. Lithgow or similar distance would be a
better risk on such a day.
Try chasing with someone say perhaps by letting others on the list know
where you are heading and you contact details. They may give you some
indication of chase targets and what to look out for or may chase with
you making the chase not as boring.
Please understand that storm chasing is an art that if you persist and
remain determined and look back at the busts, you will eventually gather
enough know how about what the risks are in going out on certain days.
The days of my busts chases have reduced but are certainly not over.
There will always be the bust chases - when you travel home and you can
hear a pin drop and see jaws drop down to the floor. Trust me - we have
all been there and done that.
Good luck in future.
I am going on a chase tomorrow leaving relatively late at say 8 am Sunday
5th December.
We will see what happens but if you wish to chase, ring me tonight as you
must know the details and be here on time to leave.
Jimmy Deguara
At 09:49 2/12/99 +1100, you wrote:
Hi, Matthew from Sydney
here
Well, I've just arrived back from my first "chase"
ever, and it was a complete and utter waste of time. After yesterday's
action on the southern ranges, I was suspecting that the ranges may do
something again today, especially as humidity levels were higher.
However, CAPE and LI forecasts were marginal at best, with areas of -1
over the south coast. So, having nothing much better to do today, I
headed SW planning on reaching Goulburn for lunch and then maybe pushing
on to Canberra or going across to the coast, depending on what was
happening. I left St Ives at 9:50am with some scattered Cu coming in from
the NE and 75% relative humidity with 22C. It was very hazy to the
SW.
I reached the Southern Highlands at 11:20am, and observed
some isolated towering cu, which looked promising for later in the day.
It was very warm by this stage, and I pushed on towards Goulburn. After
taking an unexpected detour down some strange gravel road in the middle
of nowhere, I reached Goulburn about 12:30pm. By this stage, the sky was
4/8 covered with Cu, some towering, and one particularly interesting cell
to the E over the ranges. This decayed within 20 minutes and none of the
Cu seemed to be developing, so I started to get a bit worried. After a
check of the radar in Goulburn library, my worries were confirmed with
absolutely nothing on the radar, except for some showers moving in from
the SE towards the coast south of Nowra.
By 1:30pm, the sky was very depressing, with no towers
developing further, so I had to make up my mind whether to head W or SE
towards the coast. Given the radar and the lack of development inland, I
decided to head for the coast, taking the Braidwood road to Batemans Bay.
After managing to get lost in Goulburn trying to find the road out of
town, I finally hit the road at 2pm. My brother informed me that the
showers out to sea had briefly gone pink on radar, so I thought, well
there's nothing else happening so why not? This particular part of the
journey took a tad longer than expected, and I didn't arrive at Batemans
Bay until 4pm. No clouds, very hot, very humid, very annoyed. There was,
however, some nice congestus over the ranges to the SW, and one cell
developed a pretty pathetic anvil at one point, but had dissipated by the
time I got the camera out.
As nothing else looked like happening, I decided to head for
home, via Nowra and the Princes Highway. This wasn't too bad, and I
arrived back at St Ives at 8:45pm after dinner at McDonalds at South
Hurstville in Sydney's south.
All in all, a useless day, covering 665km, 11 hours and $40
worth of petrol. I have numerous photos of cumulus, but nothing else to
show for it. I just hope my future chases are better than the
first!
Matthew
007
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 12:26:18 +0930
From: Paul Mossman [paulmoss at tpgi.com.au]
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Howdy all - finally after 4 weeks work etc I have got my new web page
up running.
More pictures wil be added next week (after I get the cd's back from the
shop) so thee wil be more to have a look at.
Please have a look - its simple at this stage but will be improved all
the time.
http://www2.tpgi.com.au/users/paulmoss/Index.html
Please let me know what you think - it does take a little while to load
but I hope its woth the wait.
Paul at Darwin.
PS 20mm rain yesterday - today 6/8 with fresh SE and not much else.
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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:11:31 +1000
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From: Carl Smith [carls at ace-net.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: Re: My new page
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Hi Paul.
You wrote:
>http://www2.tpgi.com.au/users/paulmoss/Index.html
>
>Please let me know what you think - it does take a little while to load
>but I hope its woth the wait.
What great photos!!!
The time it takes to load your various index pages is a bit of a bother -
even with 3 connections running flat out it seems to take forever!
Perhaps you should consider putting lower resolution/depth 'thumbnail'
versions of your images on your various index pages to speed up loading,
and your high quality images with comments each on a seperate page, so the
viewer can see the 'proofs', in photographic terms, and then have the
choice to view each of the high quality images if desired.
I am sure that many would still spend the time required to view all your
images, and faster loading of the various index pages would ensure return
visits, perhaps to see some of the quality images they didn't look at
previous visit, or just to see what else you have posted in the meantime -
I find a reluctance to return to websites that take an eternity to load,
even when the quality is high, although I will often persevere ... perhaps
I am a little impatient.
Regards,
Carl.
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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 13:15:55 +0800
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From: Jacob [jacob at iinet.net.au]
Subject: aus-wx: First old century of the summer in Perth
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Perth had its first old century (37.8C 100F) of the summer today, the
highest I've seen it get to so far is 38.2 in the city, currently its 37.9C
at 1:10pm WST we've got a NW seabreaze in, that will swing to the SW soon
and cool things down some more after having the hot NE winds in the morning.
Should be cooler tomorrow with the trough moving inland with the chance of
storms just to the east of Perth.
Jacob
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From: "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com]
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Subject: aus-wx: 7631 kms later
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:31:47 +1100
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Hi, back from the big chase after 7631kms, the first
week was great but the second week was pretty dissapointing, will write a
bit more about the chase later, trying to catch up on 500 to 600 e-mails at thr
moment. Dane.
011
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 15:38:58 +1100
From: Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au]
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Hey Ben from Brisbane here..
I'm a little confuzzled as to exactly where everyone is at the moment..
but i know that Matt Smith and James Harris are chasing a storm SW of
Scone in central NSW.. the storm went pink on radar half an hour ago or
so, and they said it looks quite beefy with a nice rain free base and
nice precip curtain.. there are also other cells developing around
them..
I think Andrew Mcdonald, Jane Oneil and Clive are fairly close to James
and Matt.. the last time i heard from them Andrew said they could hear
frequent static on the radio, but were having trouble seeing anything
through the haze..
Anthony Cornelius, James Chambers and Ross Portas are on their way back
to Brisbane.. and earlier on this afternoon they were around the Warwick
area on the SE Darling Downs in SE QLD.. there were some showers on
radar around them at the time (up to yellow in intensity) but they were
not spectacular visually - with tops around 30 000 feet.. there were
some stronger updrafts east of the showers on the border ranges though..
nothing on the radar in this region yet (3:30pm)..
Feels warmer in Brisbane today.. some crappy Cumulus Humilis around this
morning, but have since dissipated to leave barely a cloud in the sky -
apart from some high cloud approaching to the distant west..
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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 18:58:18 +1100
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From: Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: Fwd: Re: data and video stills FOR THOSE INTERESTED
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I have no use at this stage for the software this person is talking about
but some of you may be interested. Read below.
Jimmy Deguara
>Delivered-To: jdeguara at j.pop.ihug.com.au
>From: Mark Little
>Organization: Brigadoon - A part of the APANA Network
>To: Michael Fewings
>Subject: Re: data and video stills
>Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:13:04 +1030
>X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17]
>Cc: Jimmy Deguara
>X-KMail-Mark:
>
>Hello Michael,
>Thanks for your response.
>
>On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, Michael Fewings wrote:
> > Hi Mark and Jimmy,
> >
> > Something like that could be written in perl and put on the internet
> but it would
> > be a long term project. I was thinking of including something like that
> in the
> > storm database system but felt that it got a little too complicated and
> space
> > hungry to have images included with reports
>
>Using CGI has the advantage of being platform independent, but it suffers from
>a number of problems from my perspective. The first is that the user must be
>connected to the internet to view/analyse his/her own observations. It also
>slows down the analysis and plotting of data.
>
>This, however, is not my main reservation. Borland C++ Builder provides a lot
>of inbuilt features which do not require any (user) code. It includes such
>things as formatted input fields that enter data directly into the
>database and
>direct graphing from the database (multiple graph types with inbuilt zooming),
>etc.
>
>My software can already automatically collect images and place them in the
>database, although I limit them to 160x120 for space reasons. My long term
>goal
>is to get a home weather station and automatically input that data as well.
>
>I intend to provide an option to make web pages from the plots, etc and have
>them uploaded to the server - I already do this with my web camera software.
>
> > Hope that helps you a bit.
>
>Yes, it does. Thanks for your assistance.
>
>I'm going to develop a client-server system where a user can store and analyse
>their own data locally. The user will also be able to connect to a server
>which
>can accept data from all (authorised) users and provide data to all users who
>can plot/analyse it on their own machines.
>
>I'm including the following readings:
>Obs Date/Time, Temp, RH, pressure, pressure trend, precipitation, present
>weather, past weather, total cloud cover, low/middle/high cloud type and
>cover,
>wind speed/direction, observation comment and image.
>
>I've only prototyped plotting the easy stuff so far: reading Vs Obs Date/time,
>wind rose. I thinking about doing some form of trend analysis, but I'm not
>sure
>yet.
>
>Ultimately, I want to be able to plot the readings from all sites onto a
>geographic map, although I need to get hold of a database something like the
>CIA geographic coordinate database first (Currently I only have it for the
>Amiga, not the PC). I also need to get together a set of reference images for
>the various cloud types so I can use them in the help system.
>
>I'm going to start fully defining the scope and requirements. I expect it will
>take me a few weeks to do this (Christmas and all), so any suggestions
>relating
>to data or data analysis would be appreciated.
>
> > Michael Fewings
>
>--
>Mark Little
>"His fingers harping the net mesh;"
> - The Net-Menders by Brian Vrepont
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Yepp Andrew it is me again.
Have just come back from the big chase and you may or may not have heard of
the great activity on the third day of our chase ie 22 November 1999 in SE
Qld about 100km S - SW of Giles. The conditions were favourable for
possible tornadic development but especially supercells.
Now, to cut along story short, it seems we may have got a tornado - yepp
you heard that one before.
there was dust whirls coming from the extremely strong outflow boundary but
the whirls move away slowly but go hundereds of metres into the air. There
was brief visible funnel and also a prong reported earlier. the dust
whirl remains for a few minutes but does move away from the
outflow boundary. Of course, the air below was relatively dry so that can
explain the lack of a funnel. Another thing has me puzzled that if it is a
tornado, then it may be anti-cyclonic from what I gather from the
circulation. Anyway I will let you decide at the next combined
ASWA-Weatherwatch meeting 15th December.
Jimmy Deguara
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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 19:49:34 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au]
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Hi all,
I've finally arrived home, but I have to leave again soon to visit my
parents at their farm (another 1.5hrs in the car driving - wooohoo!!!)
I'm rather tired right now, so excuse any spelling mistakes/typo's :)
Well - we saw some great stuff, but also had a share of busts. All in
all, we saw much more than what we would have seen here in ridgy
Brisbane. None the less, the weather didn't quite do what we wanted it
to do, it seems summer in SE QLD/NE NSW still has not yet arrived, thus
forcing us into outback SW QLD to chase a few cells there.
I won't focus so much on the weather aspect of this email though, but
rather I'd like to focus on how well everyone interacted with each
other. Never in my life, have I seen a group, interact so well with
each other. The trust, and comradship was unbelievable, many people
barely knew each other, yet within minutes, it was as if we had all been
friends for years. I've never seen this before, and was quite
overwhelmed by it. If this is representative of ASWA as an entire
group, then I believe that ASWA will be extremely successful in its
coming years. With people like these, ASWA will go all the way. I'm
certainly looking forward to meeting everyone again soon in the near
future. I hope everyone else enjoyed this aspect as much as I did, as
it was the social aspect of the chase that was by far the most
enjoyable.
I'll eventually have a report + photos of the chase in the coming weeks
on BSCH, and I know that Jane will be putting a lot of stuff on MSC -
including some hilarious comments and occurrances during the chase (I
think!)
Before I rush off to the farm - I'd like to thank all those who helped
us along the chase. In particular, I'd like to thank Ben Quinn. I
phoned him nearly everyday (sometimes 2-4 times a day), to receive
radar/sat pic/model updates. He even put up with my abruptness over the
phone when I was in a rush to get the info ASAP! But I don't believe
we'd have been able to accomplish all we did without him giving us a
continuous feed of updates.
--
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
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