X-Sender: carls at ford.ace-net.com.au Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 05:57:06 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Carl Smith Subject: Re: aus-wx: Tropical Cyclones Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >Hi Guys and Gals > > I\'m Chris and I have recently joined the mailing list and am >very grateful I did, as there are alrady a ton of interesting web sites on >severe weather. But if I was to ask what would be the best site to look at >which >one would you all recommeend. Also I am fascinated by Tropical Meteorology >and >in particular Tropical Cyclones. I was wondering where can I find the best >Tropical analysis charts as well as the #1 site on Tropical Cyclones. One >last >thing I was wondering was, Is anyone currently or have recently studied >meteorology at Uni? Hi Chris. Welcome to the aus-wx list, it is a hive of activity that has lots of interesting discussions on many areas of weather interest. I would not like to 'rate' the 'best' or '#1" website, as it seems to me that such ratings are usually rather subjective and of little real value, doing little to encourage harmony among the many website authors and other weather enthusiasts who contribute so much to this list. There are many excellent websites to look at, some of which may be better suited to particular areas of interest, such as exciting storm chase reports or stunning weather photography, which are certainly worth of a visit, even if not your specific areas of interest. (-: Don't look too closely at mine just now, I'm in the process of setting up a Tropical Cyclone Archive on a free US server, and things are in a somewhat chaotic state on both websites, so 'excellent' could not be used to describe either of them just now :-) You say "there are alrady a ton of interesting web sites on severe weather". If you take the time to look through many of those websites properly, you will find lots of fascinating and informative material as well as links to many other excellent websites and valuable resources. I enjoy browsing around the websites of various members of this list and other sites linked through them, even though some of them may not be my specific areas of interest, and have learned a lot from doing so whilst gaining an appreciation of their interests. On the other hand, if you were looking for something more specific, I am sure some would feel inclined to offer specific URL's where you could find that information. We are mostly a rather friendly and cooperative bunch, especially within our particular areas of interest You expressed an interest in Tropical Cyclones, which is also my main area of weather interest. If you visit http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/links.htm you will find links to lots of weather related websites, including many with a Tropical Cyclone / Typhoon / Hurricane flavour, although I have not revised this page for a while now and some of the links may have moved or expired. You will also find many links to websites with a focus on current Tropical Weather activity at http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/current.htm, where you will also find links to current cyclone information when there are any around (there are none just now). You can download Cyclone Tracking Maps from http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/TCMaps.htm and see some map and satellite animations and reports of recent cyclones in my new Tropical Cyclone Archives website at http://www9.50megs.com/cyclones/ Another website worth a look for the 'cyclone inclined' is Micheal and Jimmy's website at http://australiasevereweather.com/ which has extensive cyclone archives among lots of other things and links to a multitude of resources. You also wrote "I was wondering where can I find the best Tropical analysis charts..." The answer to that really depends on what type of tropical analysis you are talking about, i.e. are you looking for synoptic charts, wind shear charts, sea surface temperature charts, computer modelling forecast charts of various kinds, etc., etc.,....the list goes on, and there are many different resources in different places each with a different focus, many of which could be of particular value for specific purposes, and sometimes it is worth getting similar information from different sources for comparison. There are some useful 'Tropical Meteorology' type resources among the links you will find on the pages above, and many which you can find by browsing around other list members websites and those linked through them. If you want to know where some particular resource is, just ask, and if someone knows, they may point you to it. Feel free to contribute to the various discussions that go on here if they spark your interest, or start a new one if you think it may be of interest. Enjoy your day. Regards, Carl. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Tropical Cyclone Archives: http://www9.50megs.com/cyclones/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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------------------------------ From: "John Woodbridge" To: Subject: RE: aus-wx: cold fronts and warm fronts Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:33:24 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, I guess that at some time typically in mid Autumn, the end of the Oz summer monsoon is triggered by the arrival of a really large High over Southern Aust.. accompanying the shift of the ST. ridge North. This is usually heralded by a reasonable cold front on the Eastern side, felt perhaps at least as far North as Brisbane. But presumably the resulting burst of strong cool dry SE's extending over the North of Aust., does much to initiate the movement of air back over the equator as a precursor to formation of the Asian summer monsoon North of the equator. Looking at the current weather maps and short term model prognosis, this is currently happening as we talk about it. John. >snip I'm curious about the cold fronts triggering monsoons on the other side of the equator though! This is most difficult to conceptualise... > > > It's funny you should say that. In class the other day when we were doing > > front formation, our lecturer was talking about how the BOM is very > > conservative with their depiction of fronts. He sited cases where cold > > fronts had travelled up to trigger Monsoonal activity *across* the > equator, > > wow! > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Tue, 16 May 2000 07:56:47 -0700 From: Lindsay X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Tropical Cyclones Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Glad to have you aboard Chris. Lindsay Pearce (um, yeah, I'm a guy) Chris Nitsopoulos wrote: > > Hi Guys and Gals > > I\'m Chris and I have recently joined the mailing list and am > very grateful I did, as there are alrady a ton of interesting web sites on > severe weather. But if I was to ask what would be the best site to look at which +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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------------------------------ X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:08:11 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara Subject: aus-wx: interview Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi folks, I have just had an interview with a TV company in England over the phone. They will air the interview in 4 weeks time on a satellite channel in Asia.. The interview will also be on the internet so I will give details about it as I hear further details. They taped the interview but did it in chunks. This means the interview will be narrowed down to 3 minutes. I tell you what they would need to!!! ASWA got a mention but I suppose that is dependent if they included that part. We shall see. A much more relaxed.....Jimmy Deguara ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Jimmy Deguara from Schofields, Sydney President of Australian Severe Weather Association Inc. (ASWA) http://severeweather.asn.au e-mail: jdeguara at ihug.com.au homepage with Michael Bath note new URL http://australiasevereweather.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------------------------------ From: "Les Crossan" To: "aus-wx" Subject: aus-wx: SDS Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:28:14 +0100 Organization: Cosmic EuroCon - note all times are always GMT 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
Everybody -
 
For those of you that are suffering from SDS in your autumn / winter some relief can be gained from my webcam archive - linked from
 
http://freespace.virgin.net/les.crossan/webcam.htm - the link's at the bottom. If you move fast enough you'll be able to see some of yesterday's embedded action before it drops off the edge!
 
Main and same website: http://www.uksevereweather.org.uk, K.A. Browning / L.R. Lemon approved (:
 
Les (UK)
 
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UK Storm Chaser / Severe Weather Enthusiast
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http://www.severeweather.asn.au/
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From: "John Woodbridge" To: Subject: RE: aus-wx: Please explain Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:27:38 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Anthony and all. Something a bit wierd seems to be happening. According to the current MSL charts Brisbane should be in a developing SE regime, which overnight I would expect to be tending S or SW with clear skies and rather cool conditions, and indeed, this was the forecast on the evening news. But at 11:30pm I find that we have cloud streaming at apparently quite low level from the NNW, producing light showers and radar shows precipitation clearly moving in this direction also. Bar is steady, so no trough developing, maybe just the result of the large southern High splitting off a bit into the Tasman giving us a temporary wind change?? John. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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------------------------------