X-Sender: carls at ford.ace-net.com.au Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 01:30:05 +1000 To: Aussie Weather List From: Carl Smith Subject: aus-wx: CYCLONES - Page of info about the Micro-Midget TC on 18th June Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi All. Some of you may be interested in the mini TC that hit Hong Kong the other night. My brother Phil in Hong Kong has put together a webpage on it. Regards, Carl. >From: phil at drdisk.com.hk (drdisk.com.hk - Phil Smith) >To: "Carls" >Subject: CYCLONES - Page of info about the Micro-Midget TC on 18th June >Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:36:59 +0800 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 > >I have quickly thrown together a page of satellite pics, AWS info, radar >images, etc. re the Micro-Midget TC (or whatever it was) which hit HK on >18th June. It is located at http://typhoons.50megs.com/2000/0618.htm and >includes links to the official HKO report and a brief report by Mike >Middlebrooke of an eye-witness account of a similar phenomenon in 1983. >Pardon the ads at the top - that's what pays for the disk space. >I may add some more later if I can get the details. >Phil ><>< >============================================= >Phil Smith >Director >Doctor Disk Limited >Unit B, 4/F, Imperial Heights >Belair Gardens, Shatin, NT >Hong Kong S.A.R. >People's Republic of China >Phone: +852 2646 4672 >E-mail: phil at drdisk.com.hk >Web: http://www.drdisk.com.hk or http://call.to/DoctorDisk >Typhoon information: http://www.drdisk.com.hk/cyclones.htm >============================================== > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Subject: Re: aus-wx: ASWA Victoria - still hunting for NTSC equipment Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:40:55 +0100 Organization: Cosmic EuroCon 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: MSC To: Aussie-wx Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:34 PM Subject: aus-wx: ASWA Victoria - still hunting for NTSC equipment > > Dear all, > > After my plea for the loan of an At a push you could use your PC and Snappy in NTSC configured mode..... I've got a multistandard TV but.... (: Les ------------------------------------------------------ Les Crossan Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, UK 54-59N 01-30W UK Storm Chaser / Severe Weather Enthusiast www.uksevereweather.org.uk Melbourne Storm Chasers (MSC) - Victoria, AUS http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/ Australian Severe Weather Association (ASWA) - AUS http://www.severeweather.asn.au/ Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) - UK Thunderstorm Census Organisation (TCO) - UK http://www.torro.org.uk/ Email: les.NOSPAMcrossan at virgin.net (remove NOSPAM) ICQ: 17296776 ------------------------------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "Nick Sykes" To: Subject: aus-wx: Severe storms bring damage to Northern Victoria Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:16:14 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com The squall line that moved through Victoria late yesterday has brought numerous reports of damage from Northern Victoria. The News this morning described it as a severe electrical storm, with damage strectching from Kyeton to Southern NSW. The worst hit area appears to have been Cobram near the Murray, with reports of numerous houses losing their roofs. The SES was run of it's feet. It looks like there is the possibility of a repeat performance as another strong front enters Victoria. It is currently moving through SA, and looks very nice and radar and the sat pic. Nick +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:15:59 -0700 From: Lindsay X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Bathurst Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Thursday 7:30am: 4 degrees. Winds, moderate westerly. Very heavy rain here too in Blackheath overnight, only 6.5 mm in the gauge, so it was obviously shortlived but when I woke up in the middle of the night it was absolutely pelting down and howling and maybe small hail too. Wished I wasn't so sleepy as I was dying to know the max wind gust, it really was very windy here. Had a quick look at Laurier's page but couldn't see any wind speed reports for us here. Linsay Pearce David Carroll wrote: > > More very heavy rain and high winds in Bathurst. Lightning seems to have > disapeared for the time being. > > Lets just see what we get.. > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ X-Originating-IP: [203.109.132.3] From: "Paul Graham" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Storm Damage.... Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:41:12 PDT Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I heard a report on ABC news this morning of storm damage to a town on the NSW/VIC border although I don't recall the name of this town. I haven't been able to find any information on the net so I wonder if any one else has any details. - Paul G. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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------------------------------ X-Originating-IP: [203.109.132.3] From: "Paul Graham" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Severe storms bring damage to Northern Victoria Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:42:16 PDT Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Just as I sent the last message enquiring about the storm, I got this - thanks Nick. >From: "Nick Sykes" >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >To: >Subject: aus-wx: Severe storms bring damage to Northern Victoria >Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:16:14 +1000 > >The squall line that moved through Victoria late yesterday has brought >numerous reports of damage from Northern Victoria. The News this morning >described it as a severe electrical storm, with damage strectching from >Kyeton to Southern NSW. The worst hit area appears to have been Cobram near >the Murray, with reports of numerous houses losing their roofs. The SES was >run of it's feet. > >It looks like there is the possibility of a repeat performance as another >strong front enters Victoria. It is currently moving through SA, and looks >very nice and radar and the sat pic. > >Nick > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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------------------------------ From: "Patrick Tobin" To: "Aussie-wx" Subject: aus-wx: Last night's Canberra storm Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:18:50 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Seems last night's storm packed a bit more punch in Canberra than I personally saw. There are media reports that the "sudden" storm has resulted in a number of instances of damage in Canberra's northern suburbs caused by wind (gusts up to 85km/hr), hail (including roof tile damage) and blackouts. I recorded 9.5mm - most of which fell during the storm. The use of the word "sudden" is bemusing. Like a number of members of this list I had been watching this system on satellite and radar from early evening (as well as for the last few days). It certainly gives greater weight to calls for data such as radar to be made more widely (and freely available to the public). Maybe on the new digital TV network?? (Would make it less of a potential dud!! - a good topic for a strong rave for me on another list!!) Patrick +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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-Originating-IP: [155.144.253.186] From: "Simon" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: ASWA Victoria - still hunting for NTSC equipment Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:25:57 EST Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com The NTSC capable video player outputs to PAL, so a standard television should be sufficient. BTW, is there anyone else who will be attending on Sat who is from the SE suburbs? Regards, Simon From: MSC Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com To: Aussie-wx Subject: aus-wx: ASWA Victoria - still hunting for NTSC equipment Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:34:58 +1000 Dear all, After my plea for the loan of an NTSC video player for Saturday morning's meeting - which I have now found courtesy of our !new! 49th ASWA Victoria member from the Mornington Peninsula, Simon; after a bit more research, I now find (not being very up with this sort of thing), that for Hamish Ramsay to be able to show his NTSC video of the Oklahoma outbreak of May 3rd 1999) at the meeting, we also need a TV that will receive an NTSC signal < ahem - my TV is just a **little** too old >....so an update on the equipment situation as it is now follows:- a) Simon will bring his NTSC video player b) Hamish will bring his video of the May 3rd Oklahoma outbreak,......but he'll just have to give a very animated talk (with suitable tornado impersonations interspersed throughout ) unless we can find someone who........... c) can bring an NTSC compatible TV (portable would be nice)!!!!!!!!! HELP!!!!! I hope this will be the last glitch.... please email me........ASAP if you can help out! btw, while we're at this - will NTSC videos & TVs read PAL format? Many thanks, Jane -------------------------------- Jane ONeill cadence at rubix.net.au Melbourne Storm Chasers http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence soon to be http://www.stormchasers.au.com ASWA - Victoria 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------------------------------ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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------------------------------ From: "Zac" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Storm Damage.... Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:46:58 +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 Paul, The town involved was COBRAM. Max ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Graham To: Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:41 AM Subject: aus-wx: Storm Damage.... > I heard a report on ABC news this morning of storm damage to a town on the > NSW/VIC border although I don't recall the name of this town. I haven't > been able to find any information on the net so I wonder if any one else has > any details. > - Paul G. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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------------------------------ X-Sender: paisley at mail.cobweb.com.au Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:24:29 +0930 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Phil Bagust Subject: Re: aus-wx: Frontal passage Adelaide Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Morning all, Second front came through Adelaide about 6.00am, so unfortunately it was dark. Some very heavy showers, some minor flooding around town apparently. No storms :(. Probably better action down south. Next substantial front now seems to be Monday morning........ 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------------------------------ From: David Jones To: "'aussie-weather-digest at world.std.com'" Subject: aus-wx: RE: aussie-weather-digest V1 #617 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:11:54 +1000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >Weight of a column of air.. Sorry to be pedantic but a couple of points. 1) weight is strictly a force, being mass*gravity, so the mass of air at 1000hPa is 9.8 N/cm-2 . It is interesting that weight has become synonymous with mass in general language use. 2) the constitution of the atmosphere has no effect on the mass for a fixed pressure as weight is just pressure*area. The question about temperature is interesting, and probably best answered by a physists. From 2) strictly speaking temperature has no effect, ie if P is constant and area is constant then weight is constat. However for a given quantity of air (number of molecules), the weight (and indeed mass) varies with temperature, as temperature is related to the speed of movement of air molecules, and mass is movement dependent through relativity. However, this effect is very very very small. Also vertical acceleration can decrease the weight of a column for a given mass, but again this is quite a small effect. Cheers, David. Dr David Jones Climate Analysis Section National Climate Centre Bureau of Meteorology Fax : (+61 3) 9669 4678 GPO Box 1289K, Melbourne Ph (work): (+61 3) 9669 4861 Victoria 3001, Australia Ph (home): (+61 3) 9898 4425 email : D.Jones at bom.gov.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------------------------------ From: Blair Trewin Subject: Re: aus-wx: Heat To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:51:52 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > > > Noticed this one as well - tied in with the California heatwave > > discussed elsewhere. It seems to have been reasonably well confined > > to California - Phoenix only got to 43, which is only about 3-4 above > > average for them. Also worth noting that, as in southern Australia, > > although mean temperatures peak in mid- to late summer, extremes > > peak a little earlier. The last two major heatwaves in that region, > > 1990 (50 in Phoenix) and 1994 (several state records broken and 53.3 > > in western Arizona), were both in late June/early July. > > > My brother in law was in California and then Las Vegas for the last week. > Says it was 105F when he arrived in California and then 113F in Las Vegas > itself. > > Went for a walk at 11.30pm and it was still 105F in the centre of Vegas. > > Yikes that's warm. It has also been very hot (by their standards) in western and central Europe this week. It was 36 in Berlin on Tuesday, and 32 in London on Monday; the London reading is the highest I can remember in June since June 1976 (although I may have missed an event or two). Both cities have got hotter in other months. I remember this particularly well in Berlin, as they reached 38 on the day of the relay in the 1991 Junior World Orienteering Championships - I was running the last leg (near the middle of the day), and towards the end caught the British and USSR runners, took one look at them and thought 'I'm not going to see them again'. (I then got in to discover that it had all been for nothing because our second runner had been disqualified for going to a wrong control point...). The British record high is 37 in August 1990, at Cheltenham in central western England; London was 35 on this day. It's never been over 32 in Scotland. Over continental Europe north of the Alps extreme maxima are typically in the 35-39 range at low-level sites, except at exposed coastal locations or a long way north (even the Scandinavian capitals have reached the mid 30s). Except for a few very isolated instances, you need to go south of the Alps to find anywhere that has topped 40 (I believe the German record, for example, is either 39.8 or 40.2). Blair Trewin +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Rebecca Morrison To: "'aussie-weather at world.std.com'" Subject: aus-wx: Canberra storm last night Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:51:26 +1000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Around 9:00pm a storm passed through Northern Canberra and surrounds. It produced continuous thunder and lightening and a small but powerful burst of pea sized hail lasting for about 2-3 minutes. The hail was coming down at 45 degrees. I rang my folks who live near Murrumbateman to see if they got anything and they had three storms, each with hail and some blackouts. Not bad for a midwinter's night. Rebecca +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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-Originating-IP: [198.142.200.249] From: "Shane Astridge" To: aussie-weather-digest at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Wagga storm,etc Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:04:09 EST Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Greetings and thanks to all you enthusiastic weather people :] My name is Shane Astridge and I live 30km west of Wagga. I'm 24 and work at a nursery. Before I go on, Congratulations Ira! Though I'm more than a little jealous. We had a decent winter storm last night in Wagga. It was raining heavily when I came out of the gym at around 7pm then a couple of minutes later the CC's and CG's started (approx 10-15sec apart). I took a video tape back,I was in the store when there was a blackout and the wind picked up considerably. I was a bit nervous at being in a building with so much glass and with the wind howling and gusting against the windows.Coolseason tornadoes and horizontal hail came to mind ;] The blackout made it seem more ominous with just a touch of mood lighting (green exit signs, etc) My parent's property is in a reasonable area for spotting storms as it's on a rise,most of the area is flat out west and we have little to obscure our view in any direction. The most noteworthy storms I've seen are what I think might have been the Finley area hail storm (last year) which had lightning every 3-5 seconds and a very impressive anvil, and two storms on two consecutive days in mid December last year while driving home from Narrandera where I was working. Patrick Tobin may (or may not) remember mentioning that there looked to be some action in the Wagga area. I ended up driving (very cautiously) into the back of the first storm which had an impressive rain curtain, blew down loads of twigs and medium sized branches and had CG's which were only a couple of hundred metres from my car. The second storm passed through precisely the same spot just east of Galore at exactly the same time as the one the day before at 5:12pm I couldn't believe my luck!! It was almost as impressive as the first. I've had one very frustrating experience where I spent a couple of hours watching low-mid level cloud come in from the north-west with fast vertical development to cumulous then they just dissipated when they reached us. I decided to go to see a movie in Wagga. At about 8pm there was a howling from what I initially thought was the cinema next door and then water started to pour down one side of the screen. It was the best storm we'd had in years with 119km/h winds. It was a cluster storm associated with the Carrathool races dust storm which I think made it onto an Australian weather calender. Ironically the movie was 'As Good As It Gets'. I hope this message isn't too long. Regards Shane ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 03:01:54 +1000 From: Don White X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Last night's Canberra storm Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Patrick... We are all waiting for the Captains Flat radar to be up and running (and available)... yes it is frustrating when information gained a taxpayers expense (such as radar, hourly AWS data etc) could be provided to the public at minimal (or almost zero) additional expense and it is not becuase reasons that are beyond mere morals such as I. Keep up your reporting to this list. cheers, don W Patrick Tobin wrote: > > Seems last night's storm packed a bit more punch in Canberra than I > personally saw. > > There are media reports that the "sudden" storm has resulted in a number of > instances of damage in Canberra's northern suburbs caused by wind (gusts up > to 85km/hr), hail (including roof tile damage) and blackouts. I recorded > 9.5mm - most of which fell during the storm. > > The use of the word "sudden" is bemusing. Like a number of members of this > list I had been watching this system on satellite and radar from early > evening (as well as for the last few days). It certainly gives greater > weight to calls for data such as radar to be made more widely (and freely > available to the public). Maybe on the new digital TV network?? (Would make > it less of a potential dud!! - a good topic for a strong rave for me on > another list!!) > > Patrick > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 03:05:59 +1000 From: Don White X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Heat Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com And let's not forget Sydney.... On Wednesday 21 June, Sydney's top of 22.1 was a new day record beating 21.3 in 1962... not bad for what are beginning to think is a cold Winter. Don W Blair Trewin wrote: > > > > > > Noticed this one as well - tied in with the California heatwave > > > discussed elsewhere. It seems to have been reasonably well confined > > > to California - Phoenix only got to 43, which is only about 3-4 above > > > average for them. Also worth noting that, as in southern Australia, > > > although mean temperatures peak in mid- to late summer, extremes > > > peak a little earlier. The last two major heatwaves in that region, > > > 1990 (50 in Phoenix) and 1994 (several state records broken and 53.3 > > > in western Arizona), were both in late June/early July. > > > > > My brother in law was in California and then Las Vegas for the last week. > > Says it was 105F when he arrived in California and then 113F in Las Vegas > > itself. > > > > Went for a walk at 11.30pm and it was still 105F in the centre of Vegas. > > > > Yikes that's warm. > > It has also been very hot (by their standards) in western and central > Europe this week. It was 36 in Berlin on Tuesday, and 32 in London > on Monday; the London reading is the highest I can remember in June > since June 1976 (although I may have missed an event or two). Both > cities have got hotter in other months. I remember this particularly > well in Berlin, as they reached 38 on the day of the relay in the > 1991 Junior World Orienteering Championships - I was running the > last leg (near the middle of the day), and towards the end caught > the British and USSR runners, took one look at them and thought > 'I'm not going to see them again'. (I then got in to discover that > it had all been for nothing because our second runner had been > disqualified for going to a wrong control point...). > > The British record high is 37 in August 1990, at Cheltenham in > central western England; London was 35 on this day. It's never been > over 32 in Scotland. Over continental Europe north of the Alps extreme > maxima are typically in the 35-39 range at low-level sites, except > at exposed coastal locations or a long way north (even the Scandinavian > capitals have reached the mid 30s). Except for a few very isolated > instances, you need to go south of the Alps to find anywhere that has > topped 40 (I believe the German record, for example, is either 39.8 > or 40.2). > > Blair Trewin > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ From: "Dean Sgarbossa" To: "Aussie Wx Mailing List" Subject: aus-wx: Cobram, Vic Tornado? Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:53:36 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
Hello everybody,
    Upon hearing the news early today spanning to this afternoon, I instantly became aware of a tornado or perhaps even a microburst in the north-eastern Victorian town of Cobram which lies along the Victorian/NSW border (Murrey). Many homes were damaged along quite a long path and width from intense gusts. CC's and CG's were witnessed associated with this cell. Without anymore information, it is unwise to draw any hasty conclusions this early. The Melbourne BoM said that the severe thunderstorm was associated with a squall line passing through the area. Severe storms were reported. Other news channels and radio stations have said that it was a "mini-tornado" as the uneducated media seem to put it. It is evident that a number of cold air Cb's have sprung up over the state yesterday and today which produced some very interesting severe weather; i.e. hail, gusts CG's etc. It would be interesting to hear any more information that is not posted here already.
 
            Dean Sgarbossa
From: "Dean Sgarbossa" To: "Aussie Wx Mailing List" Subject: aus-wx: Archived Radar and Satellite Pictures Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:26:28 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
Hello everyone again,
    This is probably going to sound a little lame but I am unaware of any sights that have archived radar loops/images and satellite (both IR and VIS) images. Can anyone please help me out with this dilemma? ASAP would be deeply appreciated. Thankyou!
 
            Dean Sgarbossa
From: "Dean Sgarbossa" To: "Aussie Wx Mailing List" Subject: aus-wx: Melbourne BoM Thunderstorm Warning! Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:33:29 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
IDW10V00

BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY
VICTORIAN REGIONAL OFFICE


Thunderstorm Warning

Issued at 6:32pm on Thursday the 22nd of June 2000 forthe Melbourne Metropolitan
Area

A few thunderstorms are possible this evening around the Metropolitan area.
X-Sender: jra at upnaway.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:19:28 +0800 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Ira Fehlberg Subject: aus-wx: My tornado pics are up Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Okay my pics are up from my chase this week, at http://www.upnaway.com/~jra/weather.html they are crappy scans and there is no report yet as i have been busy but i thought id put the pics up anyway for you all to see. Also i havent scanned the rest of the pics as some are still in the camera. I will do better scans and a report soon. Ira Fehlberg +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:39:13 +1000 From: MSC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie-wx Subject: aus-wx: Victorian report Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Report sent to me from Rutherglen in the NE of Victoria just now.....currently..... "There are storms developing all around here at the minute. One developed about an hour ago to the west of here and slipped away to the south. Can still see lightning flashes. A few to the west again now." and if you're interested in what may just be the cloud that was responsible for this afternoon's excitement, have a look at this image courtesy of the CSIRO & Kim Badcock http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/0622.htm I'm going to see if I can get an enhanced image of this if someone can tell me if I've got the right cloud - that's the one sitting up NW of Bendigo on its own..... Jane -------------------------------- Jane ONeill cadence at rubix.net.au Melbourne Storm Chasers http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence ASWA - Victoria 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------------------------------ From: "Michael Thompson" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Last night's Canberra storm Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:32:48 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I could see the reflected lightning from here, the escarpment was blocking view of the Cb themselves. There appeared two main storm clusters ( from the reflected lightning ), the one down Canberra way and another less active more or less due west of southern Illawarra. The one due west had several flashes that triggered other flashes right along the squall line just a spilt second after the first. Of course the line died around Goulburn after the Great Divide levels off. Nothing made it through to Wollongong, not a drop. Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Tobin To: Aussie-wx Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2000 8:18 Subject: aus-wx: Last night's Canberra storm > Seems last night's storm packed a bit more punch in Canberra than I > personally saw. > > There are media reports that the "sudden" storm has resulted in a number of > instances of damage in Canberra's northern suburbs caused by wind (gusts up > to 85km/hr), hail (including roof tile damage) and blackouts. I recorded > 9.5mm - most of which fell during the storm. > > The use of the word "sudden" is bemusing. Like a number of members of this > list I had been watching this system on satellite and radar from early > evening (as well as for the last few days). It certainly gives greater > weight to calls for data such as radar to be made more widely (and freely > available to the public). Maybe on the new digital TV network?? (Would make > it less of a potential dud!! - a good topic for a strong rave for me on > another list!!) > > > Patrick > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ X-Sender: nzts.nz at pop3.caverock.net.nz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:01:46 +1200 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: John Gaul Subject: Re: aus-wx: My tornado pics are up Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Yeah, they are bloody good?? John Gaul NZ Thunderstorm Society At 19:19 22/06/00 +0800, you wrote: > >Okay my pics are up from my chase this week, at >http://www.upnaway.com/~jra/weather.html >they are crappy scans and there is no report yet as i have been busy but i >thought id put the pics up anyway for you all to see. Also i havent scanned >the rest of the pics as some are still in the camera. I will do better >scans and a report soon. > >Ira Fehlberg > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:06:22 +1000 From: Soapy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cobram, Vic Tornado? Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Rochester & Kyabram this Evening:

More news has come to hand of a storm that hit Rochester and Kyabram.  I heard on the Nine news update that 5 people were injured and taken to hospital when they were "sucked out" of their house!
This storm sounds very suspect....interesting to see what daylight reveals tomorrow.

Dean Sgarbossa wrote:

 Hello everybody,    Upon hearing the news early today spanning to this afternoon, I instantly became aware of a tornado or perhaps even a microburst in the north-eastern Victorian town of Cobram which lies along the Victorian/NSW border (Murrey). Many homes were damaged along quite a long path and width from intense gusts. CC's and CG's were witnessed associated with this cell. Without anymore information, it is unwise to draw any hasty conclusions this early. The Melbourne BoM said that the severe thunderstorm was associated with a squall line passing through the area. Severe storms were reported. Other news channels and radio stations have said that it was a "mini-tornado" as the uneducated media seem to put it. It is evident that a number of cold air Cb's have sprung up over the state yesterday and today which produced some very interesting severe weather; i.e. hail, gusts CG's etc. It would be interesting to hear any more information that is not posted here already. 
            Dean Sgarbossa
From: "John Graham" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: My tornado pics are up Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:33:57 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com ----- Original Message ----- From: John Gaul To: Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:01 PM Subject: Re: aus-wx: My tornado pics are up > Yeah, they are bloody good?? > John Gaul > NZ Thunderstorm Society I'll 2nd that John from Ballina +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Action in NE Victoria Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:52:13 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id IAA08431 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 34mm at Wangaratta AWS between 6 and 9pm falling in hourly amounts of 17, 10 and 7. A pretty respectable total for Wang. Earlier, some good wind gusts in SA -- 115km/h on Neptune Island just before 10am with a 10-minute sustained speed of 91km/h. And they weren't confined to exposed coastal locations -- Strathalbyn recorded 94km/h at 6.23am and Roseworthy in Adelaide 85km/h at 11.30am -- 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------------------------------