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001 "James Chambers" [jamestorm at ozemail.com.au]    lunar eclipse
002 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]           Here it is, folks!!
003 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]           Swiss flash flood
004 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]           Numbers or Torndoes in Aus
005 Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]        Dry spell in Melbourne
006 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au]          AGM almost off and running
007 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   Say hi to another High!
008 "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com]                Kilsyth Weather Summary July

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From: "James Chambers" [jamestorm at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: lunar eclipse
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 00:37:20 +1000
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Hi Peter and the rest!

They are awesome shots you took of the lunar eclipse.  Where I am, in far
southern Brisbane we had continual middle/low level cloud with drizzle so it
was a tad difficult to get a good glimpse of it.  I got the video out but
because of the cloud and lack of tripod the view wasn't so good.  In October
(?) 1997 we had a full lunar eclipse at around 3-4am which I stayed up all
night for and got some great shots with the camcorder (and tripod!).

Regards
James Chambers
www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm.html
p.s. Just back from the Broncos demolition of Newcastle!!  :-)


>In case anyone missed the sight I've put up a few pics of the Wednesday's
>lunar eclipse at:
>http://www.acay.com.au/~adderley/lunareclipse/
>
>Can anyone tell me if there has ever been much research on the effect of
the
>moon on rainfall?
>My late father was working on the subject many years (or moons) ago with
the
>CSIRO.
>
>Cheers,
>Peter Adderley
>(resident newbie and lurker)


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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:13:58 +0100
From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]
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Here it is, well almost.

Les

Joachim Schug wrote:
Hi

there is no official rainfall station in this specific valley.
Nearby Interlaken (4-5 km away) reported just about 4 mm of rain,
Adelboden (WMO code 06735) had about 23 mm. According to the
registrations of this Swiss automatic station it was a "normal" summer
thunderstom, concerning flash- and precipitation rate and gusts.

Radar pictures of this event showed very small, localized cells
with more preciptation. Estimations of the ETH Zurich gave up to 40 mm
in the Saxeten valley within 1 hour (which is not extraordinary); see
here: http://www.radar.ethz.ch/archiv_990727.html

For all this water fallen in this valley is channeled in a thin outflow
(canyon) - perhaps enhanced by some other factors (mudslide, barrage by
rests of the previous severe avalanche-winter in february!) - caused
this tragedy!

By the way: In July 1987 a heavy thunderstorm in the same valley caused
heavy to severe flooding downstream!

Greetings

Joachim
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:18:35 +0100
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Marty wrote:

> Hi Les and all,
>
> >

Looking at the radar pic it looks like a severe pulse storm, quite common in the
Alps in summer.

Les

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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:22:06 +0100
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Ben Quinn wrote:

> Hey Les..
>
> We actually have 3 Dopplers in Australia.. One in Sydney (the capital of
> Australia), one in Melbourne (capital of Victoria) and another one in
> Darwin (the capital of the Northern Territory) in NW Australia.. why
> somewhere like SE Queensland/NE New South Wales, one of the hotspots of
> Australia for severe storms, doesn't have one i'll never know.. but
> hopefully that'll change over the next few years..

Lucky for some... (:

>From the postings I've read,  you need at least 2 more, the Hunter and Ballina!!

Les

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From: Blair Trewin [blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU]
Subject: aus-wx: Dry spell in Melbourne
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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:14:41 +1000 (EST)
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It looks like we've finished July with about 17mm in Melbourne - not
record territory, but certainly in the bottom 10.

There have been approximately 26mm in the last 50 days. This is also
short of record territory for winter. However, with little or no
rain likely in the next week (perhaps longer if the EC - which has
the Bight high parked on top of Tasmania on day 7 with a central
pressure of 1041 - is to be believed), I had a look at 60-day
spells.

There are two instances of < 30mm in a 60-day period in winter in
Melbourne: 25.2mm 2 June-30 July 1979, and 28.4mm 23 June - 21 August
1902. (In each case 60-day periods a few days earlier or later than 
these dates were also under 30, as one would expect).

The 1979 dry spell broke down from early August onwards, although it
was the 27th before more than 10mm was received in a day (and, as anyone
who saw the footage of the 1979 Grand Final on Thursday night will
know, late September was quite wet).

We're about 60mm below average for the year so far - not a spectacular
deficit, but on top of the accumulated deficits since October 1996 
there is starting to be some concern about water storages, especially
in western Victoria.

Blair Trewin
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Jimmy here,

I will be leaving in a short while.

Here are the details for those who may have lost it.

The Annual General meeting is to be held on the 31st July

The Encore at Riverside
Cnr Market St and Church St Parramatta   park in the street

Date  Saturday 31 July
Time 7:30pm

$29.50 per head  5 choice of Entre Main and Dessert.  (Money paid to the 
resturant and drinks separate).
Includes our own private room which seats around 20 or so.

Cya

Jimmy Deguara
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Jimmy Deguara
Vice President ASWA
from Schofields, Sydney
e-mail:  jimmyd at ozemail.com.au
homepage with Michael Bath

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 16:22:55 -0700
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Looks like another procession of gigantic Highs is in store. Look how
low they are still! The next one after this looks like it is going to
sit in the bight too...Oh well, maybe more drizzle on the way and
no...snow :-(



Lindsay Pearce
PS: so much for last weeks forecast for snow for the Cent. Tab. and the
week before that and the week before...

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From: "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com]
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Weather Summary for Kilsyth July 1999
Ave Max 14.6 (13.1)
Ave Min    6.7 (6.3)
Highest Max 17.7  10th
Lowest  Max 12.0  31st
Highest Min   11.7 13th
Lowest  Min   -0.2 26th
Rain 44.8mm  ( 88.0mm)
Rain Days  15
Wettest day 11.6mm  31st
Barometer ave 1022.9
Days of Fog   2
Days of Hail   0
Days of Thunder 0 (0.4)
NB Averages in brackets
Own observations using Met standard instruments in Stevenson Screen
Kilsyth is in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne about 25kms east of the city
Dane Newman
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