Australian Weather Mailing List Archives: Sunday, 9 April 2000

From Subject -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 001 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] Squally and Heavy Showers in Brisbane Today (Saturday) 002 Andrew Wall [astroman at chariot.net.au] Possible activity for adelaide 003 MSC [cadence at rubix.net.au] Victoria looks possible too 004 Desley Absolon [mystyle at bigpond.com.au] TC Vaughan's disappearing act 005 Desley Absolon [mystyle at bigpond.com.au] Re: Welcome 006 "McDonald" [mcdonald at one.net.au] Melbourne Outlook 007 wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) Nice colourised water vapour imagery from NPMOC 008 "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com] Davis Weather Wizard III etc... 009 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] Nice colourised water vapour imagery from NPMOC 010 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] Davis Weather Wizard III etc...] 011 "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com] Davis Weather Wizard III etc... 012 David Carroll [davidkc at nia.net.au] Solar Flares 013 Phil Bagust [paisley at cobweb.com.au] An afternoon out in Adelaide!! 014 David Carroll [davidkc at nia.net.au] Disaster Relief 015 steve baynham [bayns at broad.net.au] new pics 016 "Lyle Pakula" [remote at leski.com.au] Solar Flares -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 001 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 01:23:12 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Australian Weather Mailing List [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Squally and Heavy Showers in Brisbane Today (Saturday) Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, Well - just after 11am there were CJ's sprouting over quite a few places, and a little too tempting not to go out and have a look. I went to Murrarie Reserve (a nice little advantage spot near me), to see if there's be a possibility of any nice CJ's over the sea (and look for funnels/waterspouts), but it was evident that a large shower band was forming with a very stratiform look. In situations like this, blue sky is often scarse, but there wasa reasonable amount of blue sky just to my south, so I got onto the Gateway Mwy and headed south for about 10km. An inversion from the WSW'ly winds above the SE'ly winds was clearly noticable at about 10-12,000ft. But a few CJ's got to 15,000ft. One little CJ developed a nice little rain shaft to it, and it gave some heavy rain (~40mm/hr) as I came off the Gateway Mwy onto Miles Platting Rd. I then proceded to Sunnybank Plaza onto the rooftop carpark to get a better view of the little cell. It developed a nice little guster/shelf cloud on the front, two video snap shots of it can be seen here: http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/anthony/capture/KS133.JPG http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/anthony/capture/KS134.JPG These photos were taken from Sunnybank Plaza on the rooftop carpark looking east, I then headed into it again through Mains Rd (I think that's the road!) And got 30kn winds and precip rates of 60-80mm/hr!!! (Revision of radar shows 0-2, but Brisbane radar underestimates, and also does not handle intense small precip drops very well). The shower was quite fun for the short time it lasted! I then headed to Mt Gravatt Lookout, and sat there for half an hour, but it was evident nothing would really happen after that. But I did get a nice contrast of rain over part of inner Brisbane, and no rain adjacent to it. Currently drizzling here, occassionally reaching light-rain intensity (2-5mm/hr) -- 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------------------------------ 002 X-Sender: astroman at mail.chariot.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 08:40:35 +0930 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Andrew Wall [astroman at chariot.net.au] Subject: aus-wx: Possible activity for adelaide Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hey all, Some activity is possible this afternoon, keep an eye out! Forcasts from the BoM this morning. ADELAIDE METROPOLITAN AREA Sunday:Warm and partly cloudy. Mainly fine at first, but isolated showers and thunderstorms developing late this afternoon, chiefly about the ranges. Light to moderate northeast to southeast winds, fresh about the hills and southern suburbs tonight. A moderate to fresh afternoon sea breeze. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTES FOR SUNDAY The continuing infeed of moisture from Queensland and instability will the cause the isolated thunderstorms to extend over an area northeast of a line through Woomera to Adelaide to Bordertown. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTHERN AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT Sunday:Afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms with possible heavy falls. Warm with light to moderate northeast to southeast winds and locally fresh sea breezes. CENTRAL DISTRICT Sunday:Isolated showers. Isolated afternoon and evening thunderstorms about the northern ranges. Warm with light to moderate northeast winds to southeast winds, locally fresh tonight. Moderate to fresh afternoon sea breezes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Forecast for South Australian Towns and Cities Issued at 5:25 am on Sunday, 9 April 2000 For Sunday. Town/City Max Forecast Adelaide 28 Partly cloudy. Possible late thunderstorm. Broken Hill 27 A few showers. Possible afternoon thunderstorm. Ceduna 27 Cloudy periods. Mainly fine. Clare 26 Afternoon thunderstorm. Coober Pedy 28 Cloudy periods. Mainly fine. Coonawarra 27 Fine. Afternoon cloud. Keith 28 Possible afternoon shower. Kingscote 23 Cloudy periods. Mainly fine. Kyancutta 31 Fine. Cloudy periods. Leigh Creek 30 Afternoon thunderstorm. Maitland 28 Fine. Partly cloudy. Mount Gambier 26 Fine. Afternoon cloud. Murray Bridge 28 Possible afternoon thunderstorm. Naracoorte 27 Fine. Afternoon cloud. Nuriootpa 27 Afternoon thunderstorm. Port Augusta 29 Possible afternoon thunderstorm. Port Lincoln 25 Fine. Cloudy periods Port Pirie 29 Afternoon thunderstorm near hills. Renmark 28 Shower or two. Possible afternoon thunderstorm. Roxby Downs 30 Possible afternoon thunderstorm. Victor Harbor 25 Cloudy periods. Possible shower. Whyalla 27 Fine. Cloudy periods. Woomera 29 Possible afternoon thunderstorm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Static on radio has confirmed that there are storms about within a 500km radius of Adelaide, most likely from the north. I will not be home today as I will be near the RAAF base doing some photography. Hope you all have an enjoyable day. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ 003 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 09:54:45 +1000 From: MSC [cadence at rubix.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) To: Aussie-wx [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Victoria looks possible too Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com AREA FORECAST 082300 TO 091100 AREAS 30/32 OVERVIEW: PATCHY RAIN DEVELOPING N OF LAMEROO/BALRANALD WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA AFTER 05Z. ISOLATED SHOWERS DEVELOPING W BORDER AND EXTENDING E TO 144E BY 05Z. TROUGH TO W EXPECTED NEAR MILLICENT/WEBS 23Z, BORDERTOWN/COLAC/HUNTER ISLAND 05Z, BORDERTOWN/ WATSONIA/YARRAM 11Z. LOW CLOUD PATCHES SEA/COAST W OF TROUGH. ATM, Mildura is a forecast probability with 50% chance of storms between 3 & 6pm, and there are already CJ's in the NW of the state - worth keeping an eye on (or ring Paul or Kevin for updates). Swan Hill webcam at http://www.murraytel.com.au/ is showing sizeable cumulus for this time of day (and year). Temps over Melbourne last night were: 850 9.8 500 -14.7 300 -42.5 Fairly dry through its depth over us last night, but we have an infeed from the north of moisture at the moment which should improve the outlook as the day progresses. and in Adelaide:- 850 12.2 500 -16.9 300 -43.3 Keep your eyes to the ranges around Melbourne. Jane ONeill ASWA - Victoria +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 10:10:57 +1000 004 From: Desley Absolon [mystyle at bigpond.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com, Ivy Ross [rossa at easynet.net.au] Greg Brown , Steven Absolon , Lee Crawford Subject: Re: aus-wx: TC Vaughan's disappearing act Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Everyone,

Well.........I know that we should all be very relieved here in Cairns.........and we are......sort of......I know that we didn't need a high Cat 3 or Cat 4 up here - particularly with a 2 metre storm surge......but....ya know....weather freaks like the thought of severe weather occassionally...and trust me the city was on full alert for this one.....

A State of Emergency was about to be declared when the BoM showed Vaughan weakening. Evacuations were already under way in low lying areas at the Northern Beaches and in the Lake Placid/Caravonica area which is the catchment for the Barron River. The spillway at Lake Tinaroo was 300 mm over at 9.30am on Thursday - over 12 hours BEFORE Vaughan was expected!!! This was causing great concern on top of the expected flood rain and storm surge...and a realtively high tide...all co-inciding at around 10 pm - obviously the darkness makes these things much worse!!! It was predicted that 1 metre of water would flood the Cairns CBD and sandbagging was under way.

After TC Steve only a month ago - no one was taking any chances - the supermarkets, and service stations were backed up with huge queues....and the gas supply places had around 40 people waiting in line most of the day...Steve was such a small intense system that we didn't experience much weather at all up until virtually the eye hit the coast - no wind - and then 140km gusts in about 30 minutes...very scarey if you are not organised....alot of locals really got caught out in that instance and went to the other extreme for Vaughan - borderline mass hysteria..with people - particularly those in caravans - wanting to know how long they had to evacuate and would the Kuranda Range be closed and at what time....etc,etc,etc.

This was the first time in 20 years that I have actually taken wedding photos, etc off the walls and packed them in garbage bags...lots and lots of preparation for this...the schools were closed at 12pm...and everyone was battening down...all around you could hear hammers and screw guns and people moving things inside and yelling to each other about what else needed to be done...the hardware stores sold out of gerry cans and large water containers.....and then.....the damn thing stops, weakens and fizzles!!!!!!!!! most anti-climactic!!!!! I found myself feeling deprived...all that preparation and adrenalin for nothin'!!!!!!!! Obviously I didn't want to see the place destroyed....but...........

The dangerous thing now is, all of the smarties have now decided that cyclones are no threat at all....and will be much harder to motivate to get prepared the next time we are on alert for a severe storm such as this....and the odds are...that sometime in the next 20 years or so, we WILL be struck by something as big as this.....TC Joy pounded us, and since then we have born the brunt of Justin, Rona and Steve....it will happen again....(and a little voice says....'roll on next cylone season'....as only my weather fanatical friends will understand!! lol)

We did get heaps of rain however....as quoted in the Cairns Post on Saturday:

"Big Wet reigning in Cairns" Cairns already is sneaking up on it annual rainfall figures after only two months of downpours. BoM Cairns forecaster Frank Burton yesterday said March had yielded 472.4mm of rain in the Cairns area, about 50mm above the average for the month. While Mr Burton said the figure was not significantly higher than usual, when it was added to this year's wettest February on record, the rainfall total for this year already had reacher 1872.2mm. Cairn's entire average annual rainfall figure is 2010mm. "And there are a lot of months to go yet", Mr. Burton said. February saw huge rainfall totals around the Far Northern region, with 1276 mm recorded at the Cairns airport - more than three times the monthly average. But the bumper month followed startlingly low rainfall totals in January. For Cairns, it was the driest January in 17 years with just 112mm falling."

Early Friday morning around 2am...we had the best storm that I have seen in Cairns...obviously the remnants of Vaughan...two lightning strikes were almost directly on top of us - indeed my husband and I were standing by our bed - before we were awake....gi-normous noise and we could smell the lightning.....overnight Friday night the rain just fell down from about 10pm....Cairns was in flood on Saturday morning - and it was recorded on TV news last night that we had..wait for it....400mm overnight!!!!!!!!!! By my reckoning that put's us over our annual average - if the report was accurate!!

Hope you find this interesting,
Best wishes,

Desley in Cairns.

Carl Smith wrote:

Hi All.
Uploaded a false colour satpic animation of the demise of Vaughan at
http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/Images/DemiseOfVaughan.gif showing 24 hrs
in 6 hr intervals from 051132 to 061132 UTC made from GMS 5 satpics
downloaded from the BoM.
It certainly shows both the rapid intensification and the equally rapid
disintegration of Vaughan.
I will leave it there for a few days in case anyone is interested to have a
look.
Regards,
Carl.
>The spectacular disintegration of TC Vaughan is just as interesting as any
>spectacular deepening that may occur with any cyclone. We may ask ourselves
>what causes sudden rapid explosive deepening in cyclones (hurricanes) and
>use this as a clue as to what may cause sudden spectactular disintegrations
>(do opposites attract??)
>
>Clues to look for are:
>inflow in middle layers of dry air
>sea surface temperatures in the area
>the alteration to the 600-250hPa flow pattern
>or the intensification of another system maybe hundreds or thousands of kms
>away (refer disturbance near Fiji yesterday & last night)
>
>Whatever the cause, it almost appeared that it was a large thunderstorm
>complex that stopped producing condensation and rained itself out. Again,
>such an event is worth serious investigation.
>
>Have a look at an animation at the following site:
>http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/globalwv.html
>
>and refer to the soundings yesterday (0Z & 12Z) of Cairns & ?Willis Island?
>http://www-das.uwyo.edu/upperair/au.html
>
>Regards,
>
>Clyve Herbert
>ASWA - Victoria
>
>Footnote: Michael Thompson's description of a 'suppercell' as a type of
>thunderstorm fits well here - we may have a 'suppercyclone' (ie: died before
>supper)
>
<snip>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Carl Smith.
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Email: carls at ace-net.com.au
Internet: http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/index.htm
Current Cyclone information: http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/current.htm
Cyclone Tracking Maps: http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/TCMaps.htm
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005 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 13:04:37 +1000 From: Desley Absolon [mystyle at bigpond.com.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Re: Welcome Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Rune, Welcome to the list. I joined last year and thoroughly enjoy the correspondence from all around the world. Obviously being in Far North Queensland, I am isolated from most activities, however the news is great. We don't get much in the way of severe electrical activity up here - which surprises me as we lived in Mackay 15 years ago and got some beauties down there - and of course Darwin gets heaps...however our Wet Season is usually pretty active with Cyclones, etc. I have posted a report on Vaughan, which you should get today too. Of course snow is fairly out of the question up here too..lol Welcome any way.... Best wishes, Desley in Cairns Rune Peitersen wrote: > Gday all on the list, > Ive just joined this so I thought i'd introduce myself. My name is Rune > Peitersen, from Glenorie in nthwestern Sydney. Im 22, male and have had a > great fascination for storms since I was little. I found aswa when i was > searching the internet for storm sites and came upon > australiansevereweather.com. I had no idea there was all these people around > here that had the same interest as me. Subsequently i was invited to a nice > video night at daniel weatherheads house and met him, matt smith, matt piper > and jimmy deguara. All great guys with the same passion as me and it was > really good to see footage theyd taken of some of the same storms i had seen > in previous years. I joined ASWA about 7 months ago, and through laziness > and incompetance have only just made it onto here :), Look forward to > hearing from everybody and maybe seeing you around at meetings or on > chases,,, cheers, Rune > ______________________________________________________ > 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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "McDonald" [mcdonald at one.net.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Melbourne Outlook Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:28:50 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com

G'Day All,

From what I've seen, most models are forecasting a surface low to form on or near South Western WA by Tuesday. Most models also forecast this low to intensify pretty rapidly. I'm interested in the effect this low could potentially have on SE Australia (especially SA and VIC) come Thursday/Friday.

First of all there is potential for this low to produce some severe weather in far SW WA in terms of cold air supercells (high shear & low buoyancy) but as I don't know this area and how weather systems behave so this is a somewhat uneducated prediction.

The effect this low will have on the SE states depends hugely on the movement of the system. Some models have this low heading SE so that it eventually passes S of Tassie. Generally, what usually will happen is that the low will spawn at least one (if not more) troughs/fronts which will extend northwards. If the low does move SE I think we will see one of these troughs exending into SA and VIC and depending on the moisture content of the middle layers we could see either a fairly substantial rain band or a line of storms. The storms (if it happens) could be very very nice with 500mb temperatures of -18C in most of Victoria and -20C in SW Vic forecast. NGP actually has this low pressure system heading almost due E. This would create amazing conditions in Victoria on Thursday and Friday with very strong winds, rain/storms and then very cold weather come the weekend. It could be a very interesting second half of the week in the SE states but I think we will have to wait until Tuesday before we get a better idea of the intensity and movement of this system.

I am also interested in the cold air which is likely to be dragged up by this low pressure system. I think we could see our first real cold outbreak in the SE states by the weekend. Some models have the 540 line (thickness) steadily heading N of Melbourne by Saturday with the 528 line not all that far S. This cold outbreak has been on the cards since early this week and while I think it will be scaled back a little later in the week, we should still see our first decent snowfalls on the alps and some cold air CB's and possibly hail showers in Melbourne.

This system could change Victoria's April severe weather hex. We haven't had a reported severe weather event in April since about 1995 (this could be wrong but I can safely say that April has been our most boring month in terms of severe weather in a long time).

Enjoy the week.

Andrew McDonald

(MSC - Macca)

P.S. (Jane - you can put this up on the April outlook page if you like)

007 From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Nice colourised water vapour imagery from NPMOC Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 09:23:12 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id FAA20405 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com The Yokohama NPMOC series of Australian satpix began colourising their hourly wv images a few days ago, and they are really useful -- especially for spotting Cb development which shows up as brown specks in the moisture field. The latest image is at http://207.133.112.37/gms5/austwv.jpg and there's an archive at http://207.133.112.37/nsds-e20shots/austwv/. Details of the full range of satpix they have are on my Satellite Images --> Cloud Images page, off the index at http://ausweather.simplenet.com/. Whilst they don't have the resolution of the gmsc and gmsd quadrant pix from NPMOC at http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/satimages/gmsd.jpg etc, they seem to be the most reliable, they have an archive, and the IR, WV and vis images are hourly and in the same map projection. -- Laurier Williams Australian Weather News & Links http://ausweather.simplenet.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------------------------------ 008 X-Originating-IP: [203.36.248.18] From: "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com] To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Davis Weather Wizard III etc... Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 19:28:36 EST Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi every1, I'm interested in purchasing a Davis Weather Wizard III and the appropriate software and equipment for my school... I vaguely recall this particular gear being discussed on the list and available in Victoria. I wonder if somebody could send me (privately) an address for a supplier and/or a price. Thanx, Kevin from Wycheproof. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ 009 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 19:46:46 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Nice colourised water vapour imagery from NPMOC Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Laurier, I saw the change a few days ago and didn't like it at all :( Certainly it's personal preference, but is there a comparable site to this that still has the WV done the old fashioned way? (Eg, black and white). I know the interactive GMS-5 site does, but I'm looking for a site that is archivable. Laurier Williams wrote: > > The Yokohama NPMOC series of Australian satpix began colourising their > hourly wv images a few days ago, and they are really useful -- > especially for spotting Cb development which shows up as brown specks > in the moisture field. The latest image is at > http://207.133.112.37/gms5/austwv.jpg and there's an archive at > http://207.133.112.37/nsds-e20shots/austwv/. Details of the full range > of satpix they have are on my Satellite Images --> Cloud Images page, > off the index at http://ausweather.simplenet.com/. Whilst they don't > have the resolution of the gmsc and gmsd quadrant pix from NPMOC at > http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/satimages/gmsd.jpg etc, they seem to be the > most reliable, they have an archive, and the IR, WV and vis images are > hourly and in the same map projection. > > -- > Laurier Williams > Australian Weather News & Links > http://ausweather.simplenet.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------------------------------ -- 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------------------------------ 010 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 19:52:11 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at flatrate.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Australian Weather Mailing List [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: [Fwd: aus-wx: Davis Weather Wizard III etc...] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Kevin, Solar Flair is the supplier. If you're an ASWA member, you get a discount with Solar Flair for the Davis Wx Wizzard III :-) The cost is $493.90 for non-ASWA members, and $453.90 for ASWA members. You have to identify yourself as an ASWA member and your records WILL be cross-referenced with a Solar Flair-ASWA correspondant in Victoria. 011 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: aus-wx: Davis Weather Wizard III etc... Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 19:28:36 EST From: "Kevin Phyland" [kjphyland at hotmail.com] Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi every1, I'm interested in purchasing a Davis Weather Wizard III and the appropriate software and equipment for my school... I vaguely recall this particular gear being discussed on the list and available in Victoria. I wonder if somebody could send me (privately) an address for a supplier and/or a price. Thanx, Kevin from Wycheproof. ______________________________________________________ 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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ 012 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 20:31:08 +1000 From: David Carroll [davidkc at nia.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie Weather [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Solar Flares Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi All, Just when you thought it was safe to go outside after the Y2K failed to deliver the predicted doom, prepare for attack once more from none other than our own sun!! The sun is going through a rather magnetic phase and wants to fiddle around with Earths magnetism. This includes out electronics and this site is keeping a close eye on yet another possibility that chaos might reign. It is a fascinating subject and the site is packed with info, glorious photos and constant updates the situation. Scary Stuff.. http://www.solarmax2000.com/ Dave +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 X-Sender: paisley at mail.cobweb.com.au (Unverified) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 20:03:53 +0930 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Phil Bagust [paisley at cobweb.com.au] Subject: Re: aus-wx: An afternoon out in Adelaide!! Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hello all, What a lovely day it turned out to be in Adelaide, and despite some tactical blunders and stupid stuffups, my chase had a good ending! After checking the radar at 1.30, I decided to head north to the Barossa. But before I left I decided to check out the air display for the Adelaide 500 race. There was plenty of big cumulus around, and as I was watching the F-18's from my backyard, I was amazed to see a funnel develop from the ragged base of a dissapating congestus! It was a small rope, but no doubt about what it was! I rushed inside to get my camera and just got a shot off before it dissapated. Not bad I thought, a funnel before I even leave! So I headed north to Gawler. On my way a large congestus to my right started to glaciate and develop a lowered base - and low and behold, in the traffic, a large funnel-like appendage! I was heading away from this cloud but managed to get a shot off between buildings. Ahead of me was a large collapsing storm already spreading an anvil overhead. My plan was to get to the north of new towers developing out to the east, and I ignored everything else. Beautiful pileus and lenticular clouds developed over these towers, which had very sheared anvils. I took more shots. It was looking good! I finally got to Truro and realised two things, I wasn't going to be able to catch these towers out to the east, which were much further away that I'd thought, and worse, horror of horrors, I'd not even bothered to focus the half dozen shots I'd already taken, including the two funnels!!!! I was not a happy boy - I really hope these shots can be saved, perhaps in Photoshop. Anyway, my options were now limited, and I headed back south through the Barossa, hoping some new development would catch up with me. I got caught in hilly terrain around Kersbrook and was beginning to think I'd miss out, although the sky was still throwing up towers everywhere and there was plenty of static on the radio. Then I saw a lowering out to the west, this looked good, and I desperately searched for an escape route to give me a good view west. I found one, emerging from the top of the ranges at the Para Wirra conservation park [finding a great new viewing spot]. MY GOD! Over the Elizabeth area amazing things were hapenning!! Two BIG wall cloud-like lowerings, only a few km apart, were dropping copious CG's, precip cascades and showing excellent scud action {inflow/outflow features] and general cloud motion . Making sure I had the focus right this time [:)] I fired off most of the rest of the film here. Finally happy, I drove back through the now outflow dominated storm, got drenched, and fired my last shot off showing the Torrens River in full spate. Result? Despite the stuffups, I'm a happy chappy. Hope the film does justice when it gets back. Andrew and Kathryn? Hope you had some luck today too! There were that many good targets around it would have been hard to miss everything! Phil 'Paisley' Bagust paisley at cobweb.com.au http://www.chariot.net.au/~paisley2 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ 014 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 20:41:12 +1000 From: David Carroll [davidkc at nia.net.au] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie Weather [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: aus-wx: Disaster Relief Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com This site just might interest a few people.. http://www.disasterrelief.org/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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-Sender: bayns at mail.broad.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 20:56:59 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: steve baynham [bayns at broad.net.au] Subject: aus-wx: new pics Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com hey ppl!! a couple of pics only just scanned! http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1001003.jpg (canberra) N http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/1001004.jpg " NW http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/sunset7.jpg " W der http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/2101007.jpg (gold coast) N cyas steve +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "Lyle Pakula" [remote at leski.com.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Solar Flares Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:21:26 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi, I have heard that the flares will also produce auroras as far north as Melbourne over the coming months. My worry is, how will this effect our weather or, more to the point, temperature (snowfalls). Any theories? Lyle ----- Original Message ----- From: David Carroll [davidkc at nia.net.au] To: Aussie Weather [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 8:31 PM Subject: aus-wx: Solar Flares > Hi All, > > Just when you thought it was safe to go outside after the Y2K failed to > deliver the predicted doom, prepare for attack once more from none other > than our own sun!! The sun is going through a rather magnetic phase and > wants to fiddle around with Earths magnetism. This includes out > electronics and this site is keeping a close eye on yet another > possibility that chaos might reign. It is a fascinating subject and the > site is packed with info, glorious photos and constant updates the > situation. > > Scary Stuff.. > > http://www.solarmax2000.com/ > > Dave > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------