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001 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Heavy rain in central Australia
002 Paul.Mossman at DWNNICH.OCA.nt.gov.au Heavy rain in central Australia
003 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Heavy rain in central Australia
004 Ben Quinn [bodie at flatrate.net.au] Pictures
005 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com. Cloud Links...
006 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com. 4kg Blocks of Ice...
007 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au] Submissions for the ASWA Calender
008 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com. "Fast tilt" - the 84 million year old question...
009 Ben Munro [benjamin at biosys.net] 4kg Blocks of Ice...
010 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com. 4kg Blocks of Ice...
011 Patrick_Tobin at ama.com.au Pre-frontal storm line?
012 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com. Chilling Reminder...
013 Robert Goler [robert at neumann.maths.monash.edu 4kg Blocks of Ice...
014 Robert Goler [robert at neumann.maths.monash.edu 4kg Blocks of Ice...
015 "Weatherhead" [weatherhead at ozemail.com.au] Sydney's Hot Temperatures
016 Andrew Wall [astroman at chariot.net.au] SA Page update
017 Jacob [jacob at iinet.net.au] Funnel cloud observation?
018 Ira Fehlberg [jra at upnaway.com] Funnel cloud observation?
019 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU] Funnel cloud observation?
020 Matt Smith [disarm at braenet.com.au] Sydney Hailstorm April 14 '99 - total costs
021 paulmoss at tpgi.com.au Torrential Rain falling..........
022 Matt Smith [disarm at braenet.com.au] Torrential Rain falling..........
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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: aus-wx: Heavy rain in central Australia
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There have been widespread heavy falls of rain across central
Australia. The southern NT got most of it in the 24 hours to 0900
yesterday (96mm at Yulara and several other reports in the 80-90
range); today the action seems to have been in northern SA (although
the NT obs aren't in yet).
Glendambo (a truckstop on the Stuart Highway halfway between Woomera
and Coober Pedy) got 151mm, Mt. Dare (on the northern border) 130,
and two other northern sites topped 70, Marla (74) and Mintabie (72).
Plenty of 30s and 40s.
Both Glendambo and Mt. Dare got more rain in the last 24 hours than
they received in all of 1999 (their 1999 totals being 112.7 and
126.6 respectively). I wouldn't be surprised if the Birdsville Track
site of Mungerannie (62.6 in 1999) joins them today.
GASP suggests that the moisture will move very slowly eastward -
and also has a trough with large precipitation totals anchored over
Victoria through the middle of next week - time for the chasing
fraternity to start their engines?
Blair Trewin
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Wow - the models got it right. I think there will be some major flooding in
those areas soon - the likes of which was seen in 1995? when the outback was
green!
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Subject: aus-wx: Heavy rain in central Australia
There have been widespread heavy falls of rain across central
Australia. The southern NT got most of it in the 24 hours to 0900
yesterday (96mm at Yulara and several other reports in the 80-90
range); today the action seems to have been in northern SA (although
the NT obs aren't in yet).
Glendambo (a truckstop on the Stuart Highway halfway between Woomera
and Coober Pedy) got 151mm, Mt. Dare (on the northern border) 130,
and two other northern sites topped 70, Marla (74) and Mintabie (72).
Plenty of 30s and 40s.
Both Glendambo and Mt. Dare got more rain in the last 24 hours than
they received in all of 1999 (their 1999 totals being 112.7 and
126.6 respectively). I wouldn't be surprised if the Birdsville Track
site of Mungerannie (62.6 in 1999) joins them today.
GASP suggests that the moisture will move very slowly eastward -
and also has a trough with large precipitation totals anchored over
Victoria through the middle of next week - time for the chasing
fraternity to start their engines?
Blair Trewin
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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Heavy rain in central Australia
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> There have been widespread heavy falls of rain across central
> Australia. The southern NT got most of it in the 24 hours to 0900
> yesterday (96mm at Yulara and several other reports in the 80-90
> range); today the action seems to have been in northern SA (although
> the NT obs aren't in yet).
>
NT obs are now in and there are a couple of whoppers - 190mm at
Erldunda (where the Uluru road leaves the Stuart Highway - no wonder
it's closed!) and 151mm at New Crown. Also a few others in the 80-100
range, although they are more isolated than yesterday.
190 must be getting within striking distance of the largest one-day
falls in this region. Alice Springs has had 204.8, Ringwood 243.3,
Barrow Creek 233.7, among the longer-term stations, but there may
well be shorter-term stations (especially in the March 1988 event)
or rainfall-only stations that I've missed (and the structure of our
database is such that it's an absolute bugger to search it for that).
Blair Trewin
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:17:34 +1100
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Hi Everyone,
I have uploaded some pictures taken in Brisbane yesterday - a nice beefy
looking shower early in the morning, and a really 'gothic' looking
sunset..
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/assor/10-02-2000/10-02-2000span.jpg
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/assor/10-02-2000/10-02-200002.jpg
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/assor/10-02-2000/10-02-200003.jpg
This congestus looked really nice - looks fairly soft in the picture
though..
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/assor/10-02-2000/10-02-200006.jpg
I really liked this sunset..
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/assor/10-02-2000/10-02-200012.jpg
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/assor/10-02-2000/10-02-200013.jpg
Looking at the latest model runs - it looks like i'll be photographing
sunsets and showers forming in a SE air stream for quite some time!!!
Hopefully the second half of February will be better storms (decent
storms) wise..
--
Ben Quinn
The Brisbane Storm Chasers Homepage (BSCH)
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com
The Australian Weather Pages Webring
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/webring/index.htm
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:38:07 +1100
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Trolling through the January 29 Issue of New Scientist during
one of my rare lunch-breaks, I came across some "Cloud Links"
links that may be of interest to you. I havn't checked them
out yet, so I don't know if they work or not. Here goes...
(1) John Day's ethereal website at http://www.cloudman.com
(2) Plymouth State College's "Cloud Boutique" at
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/cloud.html
(3) Gordon Richardson's at http://gordonr.simplenet.com/index.htm
(4) Weird clouds at http://www.consciousness.com/1thumbnail.html
(5) Animal clouds at http://homepages.enterprise.net/alans
(6) NASA's International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project at
http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov
(7) NASA's Space shuttle pics taken from space at
http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/solar/portug/cloud1.htm
Enjoy!
Michael Scollay mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:47:09 +1100
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Subject: aus-wx: 4kg Blocks of Ice...
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In January 29's issue of New Scientist was little artical about
4kg blocks of ice falling out of the sky in Spain somewhere.
Perhaps someone has more info about this. Quoted verbatim from
page 5, "Newswire"...
---Begin Included Text---
Fortean ice
Chunks if ice that fell in Spain over the last few weeks came
from the upper atmosphere, according to scientists called in
to investigate. Some of the blocks weighed up to 4 kilograms.
The blocks' composition rules out comets and aeroplanes as
the source. But scientists are still puzzled. "We know that
hail can sometimes grow up to the size of a baseball, but not
a 4-kilogram mass," says Fernando Lopez Vera, a geophysicist
at the Independent University of Madrid.
---Ends---
Michael Scollay mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:32:06 -0800
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Keep us posted Les.
Lindsay p.
Les Crossan wrote:
>
>
>
> BTW for anyone who is interested - there's a rearward sloping anafront (cold
> front) with upper level trough / high helicity passing across the UK
> tomorrow - severe weather warnings are already being issued - I'll be
> chasing it for a distance of several hundred miles, it's funnel / prong /
> inches per hr / tornado time!!!
>
> The mounting excitement can be read on uk.sci.weather (:
>
> Les
>
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:15:20 +1100
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Subject: aus-wx: "Fast tilt" - the 84 million year old question...
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Final January 29 New Scientist Artical on pg. 29 (I hope)...
---Begin Included Text---
Fast tilt
IT SEEMS that the Earth suddenly tilted on its axis by up
to 20 degrees about 84 million years ago, tipping continent
-loads of dinosaurs into new climate zones.
Geologists have traced the slow wander of the Earth's
magnetic poles across its surface by examining the magnetic
record laid down in lava. And generally, the movement of
poles - which is thought to reflect the crust and mantel
slipping over the metallic core - is slow.
But a new study of undersea volcanoes in the Pacific shows
that the movement was more than 10 times as fast for around
2 million years.
"Most of the plate motions around the globe seem to have
been changing," says Will Sager if the University of Texas
in Austin. Sager says data collected by Michel Prevot of
the University of Montpelier in France confirm the movement.
---Ends---
Makes me wonder that the poor dinosaurs had to cope with
some impressive climate change, not to mention lots of
volcanoes with stacks of dust and poisonous gases etc.
Pretty hideous place until their final demise 65 million
years ago. Their numbers were probably in decline for some
time and being egg-laying beasts unable to move long
distances to find better accommodation quickly as the
Earth broke up around them, unlike birds (that survived),
dinosaurs would have to abandon their nests and young.
Also, dinosaur egg-shells and embryos would have suffered
some considerable mutation from a poisonous environment.
This would have given placental mammals, birds, marine
reptiles and other beasts that could better protect
their eggs/young from the environment, the edge in
ultimate survival stakes.
Michael Scollay mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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From: Ben Munro [benjamin at biosys.net]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: 4kg Blocks of Ice...
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A sphere of 20cm diameter would weigh roughly 4kg. That's a pretty big
hailstone! My calculation might be incorrect though. The volume of a
spehere is 4/3 x pi x r^3 isn't it?
Ben Munro
At 13:47 11-02-00 +1100, you wrote:
>In January 29's issue of New Scientist was little artical about
>4kg blocks of ice falling out of the sky in Spain somewhere.
>Perhaps someone has more info about this. Quoted verbatim from
>page 5, "Newswire"...
>
>---Begin Included Text---
>Fortean ice
>
>Chunks if ice that fell in Spain over the last few weeks came
>from the upper atmosphere, according to scientists called in
>to investigate. Some of the blocks weighed up to 4 kilograms.
>The blocks' composition rules out comets and aeroplanes as
>the source. But scientists are still puzzled. "We know that
>hail can sometimes grow up to the size of a baseball, but not
>a 4-kilogram mass," says Fernando Lopez Vera, a geophysicist
>at the Independent University of Madrid.
>---Ends---
>
>Michael Scollay mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:44:17 +1100
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Robert Goler wrote:
>
> Hi Michael
>
> You can find the original news report (with pictures!) here at:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_608000/608903.stm
>
> The latest information I heard about this (apart from the New Scientist
> article that you mention) is that the analysis of the composition of these
> ice chunks revealed that they were made out of ordinary tap water. That
> is, they were not waste ejected from planes etc, and were definitely not
> cometary in origin.
Thanks for that link, Robert...I also have that book "Weird Weather"
which prompted me to add this more modern account...The fact that
this ice is tap water raises the distinct possibility of a hoax:-)
[snip "Weird Weather" quotes]
Michael Scollay mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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At 2.45pm a line of (hopefully) storms aligned from NNW-SSE seems to be
developing ahead of the main cloud band.
Currently located just west of a line West Wyalong to Cooma.
Could be an interesting afternoon later on for Canberra?
(Current conditions are: temp 32, Dp 07 - somewhat below optimum for a decent
storm!!) with gusty NW winds and visibly increasing dust haze.
Patrick
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:08:03 +1100
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Honest, this is my last quote from January 29's New Scientist.
Beginning on page 40 is an interview with Jean-Robert Petit,
"The Ice Man" who has probably spent the most time of any
human at Vostok, 4km up on the Central Antartic ice plateau.
How I'd love to get my hands on the scientific reports that
pertain to the analysis of drilled ice cores at Vostok or
any other reasonable site. At Vostok, the climate record in
the ice "now stretches back 400 000 years and it covers the
past four natural climate cycles".
Jean-Robert revealed during 1987 "we found that the Antartic
temperature rose by 10C from glacial to interglacial periods.
Changes in CO2 levels account for about 50% of that change.
For the first time we had a nice correlation between
temperature change and CO2 levels stretching back 150 000
years. Only ice can tell you about this important
relationship." The depth at this point was around 2200
metres but it is not quoted directly in the artical.
At 3600 metres, this is the deepest ice-core drilled, and
the longest climate record..."However far back you look in
the Vostok core CO2 levels have never been as high as today.
If you plot levels over the past 400 000 years you have a
gentle oscillation up and down. But the present value shoots
off the graph. The highest level in the past occurred
300 000 years ago and was 300 ppm. The present level is
around 360 parts per million. So it's clear we're doing
something different to the climate."
I'd say it's a "Chilling Reminder"...
As backgound, the CO2 level is measured directly by melting
the ice to release trapped atmospheric gases. The temperature
is derived from the ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 in the
gases and ice formed at that time.
Michael Scollay mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:16:16 +1100 (EST)
From: Robert Goler [robert at neumann.maths.monash.edu.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: 4kg Blocks of Ice...
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Hi all
I have uncovered some more information regarding a similar event that
occurred in Italy about a day or so after the Spain event. I don't have
the actual articles, but these were taken from the meteorobs mailing list.
"Also here in Italy two days ago [~22 Jan] it happened the same
phenomenon. An ice "ball", weight about 5 kg. fall down in a courtyard of
a school. The site was around Padua. The TV News suddenly report the
fact with the reference to the Spain accidents."
"Yesterday [~23 Jan] other three ice balls one about 12 and the other two
about 5 kg. fall down in other italian city, close to Como."
I mentioned earlier about the composition being ordinary tap water. Upon
looking back at the email that this came from, it was actually _distilled_
water. However, I do not know where the emailer got this from, as this was
the only account I heard regarding the composition of the object.
Cheers
--
Robert A. Goler
E-mail robert at neumann.maths.monash.edu.au
http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/~robert/
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Monash University
Clayton, Vic 3168
Australia
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:19:24 +1100 (EST)
From: Robert Goler [robert at neumann.maths.monash.edu.au]
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Hi Michael
You can find the original news report (with pictures!) here at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_608000/608903.stm
The latest information I heard about this (apart from the New Scientist
article that you mention) is that the analysis of the composition of these
ice chunks revealed that they were made out of ordinary tap water. That
is, they were not waste ejected from planes etc, and were definitely not
cometary in origin.
If you check out a book entitled "Weird Weather" by Paul Simons, he
mentions some similar accounts that have occurred. Here are some passages
from the aforementioned book:
"Another peculiar event occurred in Timberville, Virginia, USA on 7 March
1976. The sky was clear and Wilbert Cullers and his family were watching
television when at 8.45pm there was a loud crash which shook the house. A
block of ice about the size of a basketball smashed through the
plasterboard ceiling of the living room and fell onto the floor. Deputies
from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Department arrived about an hour
later and collected some of the ice samples. A neighbour saw the ice and
another ice ball fall about 50 yards (46 metres) away, but when he looked
up at the sky for any sign of aircraft he saw nothing unusual. Later
chemical and physical analysis of the ice at a local college found it was
fairly unremarkable; it appeared to be made of tap water."
"Sometimes the ice falls out of a clear sky, such as at Long Beach,
California on 4 June 1953 when about fifty ice lumps fell, some weighing
165 pounds (75 kilograms), and the total weighing about 2200 pounds (1
tonne)."
"The greatest ever natural ice chunk recorded fell at Ord in Rosshire on
the evening of 13 August 1849 on the estate of Mr Moffat of Balvullich.
The monstrous block was some 20 feet (6 metres) across, and The Times
reported that it had a beautiful crstalline structure, almost transparent
appearance, formed of diamond-shaped ice coalesced together. 'Immediately
after one of the loudest peals of thunder heard there, a large and
irregular-shaped mass of ice, reckoned to be nearly 20 feet in
circumference, and of a proportionate thickness, fell near the farmhouse.'
And of course, no aircraft could have been responsible for it."
The book is very readable and gives similar accounts of other freak
weather phenomenon.
Cheers
--
Robert A. Goler
E-mail robert at neumann.maths.monash.edu.au
http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/~robert/
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Monash University
Clayton, Vic 3168
Australia
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From: "Weatherhead" [weatherhead at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: Sydney's Hot Temperatures
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:34:05 +1100
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Hey Everyone,
It has been a warm one again here in Sydney. Cumulus and
Cirrus have been visible since about 10am. Some of the temperatures have been a
little weird. At Penrith the temps shot up to 38 at 1:30 then have fluctuated up
and down all afternoon.
1700 37.2 24
360 32
43
31.0
1630 37.8 26 360
26
35
32.1
1600 37.1 26 350
22
33
31.4
1530 38.1 22 340
28
39
31.3
1500 37.8 23 010
26
44
31.3
1430 36.8 25 010
24
37
30.9
1400 38.5 22 350
22
41
31.7
1330 38.0 23 010
22
35
31.5
1300 37.1 24 360
22
32
30.9
1230 36.8 24 350
17
30
30.7
It has been similar around Sydney also.
After this hot dry spell, hopefully we can get some rain over
the weekend and into next week to soften the ground up again.
016
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Subject: aus-wx: SA Page update
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Hello everyone,
I have added some more stuff to the South Australian Severe Weather page.
1. I have added some photographs that Phil Bagust has taken, they can be
found at, http://sastorms.virtualave.net/pbagustnew.html
2. I have added a temperature records table for Adelaide, which can be
found at, http://sastorms.virtualave.net/temprecord.html
3. I have also added a rainfall totals table which can be found at,
http://sastorms.virtualave.net/rainfalltotals.html
Dont forget to keep an eye on how many days left until our next meeting at,
http://sastorms.virtualave.net/meetings.html
Also, check out our weather for each month at,
http://sastorms.virtualave.net/summary2000.html
And for those interested in some past radar images, goto,
http://sastorms.virtualave.net.au/miscradar.html
I will be adding a storm report page, when I get a chance to chase a real
storm, or when I receive some chase reports from other members. this will
be located at http://sastorms.virtualave.net/reports.html
Okay have fun, catch yas later,
Andrew Wall
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Weather Association Inc.
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South Australian Severe Weather page - http://sastorms.virtualave.net
ASWA Inc. - http://www.severeweather.asn.au
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Subject: aus-wx: Funnel cloud observation?
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Havent seen this on any of the obs before, this was on the 3pm obs in WA today:
! Balgo Hills ! Funnel cloud ! 8!WNW 7 ! 29 68! 30 ! !
Jacob
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Where is balgo hills dude?
At 15:58 11/02/00 +0800, you wrote:
>
>Havent seen this on any of the obs before, this was on the 3pm obs in WA
today:
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>! Balgo Hills ! Funnel cloud ! 8!WNW 7 ! 29 68! 30 !
!
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>Jacob
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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Funnel cloud observation?
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>
> Havent seen this on any of the obs before, this was on the 3pm obs in WA today:
>
> ! Balgo Hills ! Funnel cloud ! 8!WNW 7 ! 29 68! 30 ! !
>
> Jacob
Most probably a coding error.
Blair
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Subject: aus-wx: Sydney Hailstorm April 14 '99 - total costs
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Tele newspaper article today in Sydney said that insurance loss was $1.63
Billion, and the total estimated cost was 2.2 billion $.
wow.
Matt Smith
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 21:54:03 +0930
Subject: aus-wx: Torrential Rain falling..........
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Howdy all. It is and was absolutely pissin down here - have had
93mm til now.
75mm falling in 1 hour from 6.45 - 7.45pm.
Rest falling from 7.45pm - 9.15pm.
Still raining quite heavy now.
All started with a monsoonal storm line coming in off the ocean -
very gusty heavy rain falling for the 1st hour - then steady moderate
type rain with heavier bursts intermingled.
Radar still shows a bank of rain to come - with the chance also of
further propagation out to sea enhancing any further rain.
Went for a drive - plenty of localised flooding - including approaches
to Stokes Hill Wharf, Tiger Brennen Drive and Dick Ward Drive.
Keep it up I reckon!
Paul in Darwin.
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Tell me you have photos of all these lovely storms your getting up there
paul.. and if so, chuch em on the web so we can all see them ! :)
Matt Smith
>Howdy all. It is and was absolutely pissin down here - have had
>93mm til now.
>
>75mm falling in 1 hour from 6.45 - 7.45pm.
>Rest falling from 7.45pm - 9.15pm.
>
>Still raining quite heavy now.
>
>All started with a monsoonal storm line coming in off the ocean -
>very gusty heavy rain falling for the 1st hour - then steady moderate
>type rain with heavier bursts intermingled.
>
>Radar still shows a bank of rain to come - with the chance also of
>further propagation out to sea enhancing any further rain.
>
>Went for a drive - plenty of localised flooding - including approaches
>to Stokes Hill Wharf, Tiger Brennen Drive and Dick Ward Drive.
>Keep it up I reckon!
>
>Paul in Darwin.
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