X-Originating-IP: [193.122.26.141] From: "John Roenfeldt" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: (offtopic) aus-wx: UK flooding Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:14:02 GMT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Oct 2000 14:14:02.0793 (UTC) FILETIME=[D6A77190:01C0351F] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com You have missed most of the action. You can keep tabs on it in the futures with the BBC as it has radar on its website although it is a couple of hours old at http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/radar.shtml No floods here in London either. This is the 3rd year I have been in England and there has been floods somewhere in the UK every year. regards, John Roenfeldt >From: "bussie" >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >To: >Subject: Re: (offtopic) aus-wx: UK flooding >Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:26:14 +1000 > >Sounds like you're copping a bit of a drenching over there Les. Probably a >stupid question but do you have radars we can have a look at? > >Bussie (NE Victoria) > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Les" >To: >Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:10 PM >Subject: Re: (offtopic) aus-wx: UK flooding > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Blair Trewin" > > To: "Aussie Weather" > > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:10 AM > > Subject: aus-wx: UK flooding > > > > > > > Slightly off the topic of Australian weather, but there has been > > > very heavy rainfall in SE England over the last 24 hours, with > > > consequent severe flooding. The figures I've seen (on uk.sci.weather) > > > > Parts of Southern England in a state of emergency this morning - >0709gmt. > > > > OK here in North East England. > > > > Les (UK) > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > 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------------------------------ _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:26:58 +1000 (AEST) From: Jonty Hall To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: for a cause Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Can't claim to be totally in the know, but I've heard that the Paralympics have their own, slightly different symbol to put on the bridge and the workmen are merely replacing the old with the new. Cheers, Jonty. ____________________________________________________________________ Jonty Hall jdh at vortex.shm.monash.edu.au CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology Monash University Wellington Road, Clayton, Vic 3168 Ph +61 3 9905 9684 ____________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Nathan Smith wrote: > you may not like me "polluting" this webring with "unrelated info" but i > reckon it's for a worthy cause and at least i know im doing "my bit" in > giving it to as many as i can. > > thanks > > nathan > > > > > In the case of tthe small email world of Sydney, this might make an > >impression on the powers that be. > > > >From: Matthew_Keogh at freehills.com.au > >Subject: Please read > > > > > >As I was travelling to work on the ferry this morning I noticed that > >overnight > >workmen had begun to remove some of the Olympic rings. As you all know, > >the > >Paralympics are now only 2 weeks away, yet Mr Knight has decided to > >slap the > >athletes of the world in the face by removing this great unifying > >symbol! > > > >I am very angry. > > > >The paralympians deserve our respect and our support equally as much > >as > >their > >able bodied counterparts. Indeed most of them have had to surmount far > >greater > >obstacles to reach the pinnacle of their sport than most of us will > >ever > >face. > >Just imagine that you had not only spent considerable time overcoming > >a > >physical > >or mental disability, but then years training so that you could compete > >in > >front > >of your home crowds. Then imagine you had witnessed the last two weeks > >of > >the > >Olympics and felt the > >huge generosity of spirit that overcame us all - you'd be so inspired > >at the > >thought of what lay ahead, wouldn't you? Then imagine that with a > >fortnight > >to > >go you saw the symbol that had burned brightly on the bridge torn down, > >the > >symbol for which you have been spending our soul in training every day, > >the > >symbol that is meant to overcome the barriers of race, religion, sex > >and > >disability. How would you feel? > > > >The wet weather that has spread across the city will mean that no more > >can > >be > >done until the heavens clear. Accordingly, given that email can spread > >like > >the > >wildfire that has surrounded Sydney over the past few days, can you > >please > >place > >your name on the petition below and send it on to those you think may > >do > >likewise (hell, forward it to those who won't - it will only take them > >10 > >seconds to press delete and get on with their day). > > > >If you are the 20th / 40th / 60th etc person on the petition, please > >also > >forward it back to me. I will be contacting the media through some > >paralympic > >sources to see if there is any interest in this issue. > > > >Please do this small thing to support those that have overcome so much > >and > >who > >stand on the verge of the time of their lives. > > > >Please don't let petty political decisions marr the great generosity > >of > >spirit > >that has blossomed in our most beautiful of cities over the past > >weeks. > > > >Please act. > > > >PETITION > > > >We the undersigned urge the NSW Government to retain the Olympic Rings > >on > >the > >Sydney Harbour Bridge as a symbol of excellence and unity for the > >Paralympic > >Games. > > > >1. Matt Keogh - Mosman, NSW > >2. Amber Cerny - Paddington, NSW > >3. Geraldine Chin - Erskineville, NSW > >4. Lachlan Creswell-Erskineville, NSW > >5. Laurie Berg - Mc Mahons Pt, NSW > >6. Graeme Edgerton - Mc Mahons Pt, NSW > >7. Stuart Irvine - Randwick NSW > >8. Wendy Pan - Bexley, NSW > >9. Betty Pung - Canley Vale, NSW > >10. Sharon Leow - Camperdown, NSW > >11. Cathy Hamilton - Toowoomba QLD > 12. breanna murray- toowoomba qld > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.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------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 03:31:43 +1000 From: David Carroll X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie Weather Subject: aus-wx: Bathurst Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 3.30am 14/10/2000 Weather in Bathurst has picked up, rain belting down here, wind quite strong as well. Its almost sleet and freezing cold outside.. Only started about 15 min ago.. No lightning or thunder yet... 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------------------------------ From: "Les" To: Subject: Re: (offtopic) aus-wx: UK flooding Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:40:19 +0100 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "bussie" To: Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 9:26 AM Subject: Re: (offtopic) aus-wx: UK flooding > Sounds like you're copping a bit of a drenching over there Les. Probably a > stupid question but do you have radars we can have a look at? > Surprisingly enough, we do - http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/radar.shtml lo - res not Doppler etc etc. Les (UK) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: chris.nitsopoulos at jcu.edu.au X-Authentication-Warning: brutus.jcu.edu.au: nobody set sender to jc124783 at jcu.edu.au using -f To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Heavy rain in SE QLD Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 05:38:02 +1000 (EST) User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 203.21.229.218 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi everyone Whoever has access to radar might be interested to know that there are a few spots of red and pink around Brisbane and Gladstone. I've long thought that both those radars are a little sensitive so I'd like to hear from anyone that is currently undergoing these showers or storms. Here in Townsville we have received a little over 5 mm thus putting an end to our dry spell of just over 110 days. Attached is a copy of the radar I'm talking about. CHEERS: Chris Nitsopoulos Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\IDR211.gif" From: "bussie" To: "weather list" Subject: aus-wx: Wondering Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:04:53 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I've always wondered what the forecast's mean when they say, winds freshening from the SW or whatever. Freshening? Does that mean it's going to get colder or the winds will be stronger? Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ From: "bussie" To: "weather list" Subject: aus-wx: sat pics Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:09:23 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I've always liked this site. Animated sat pics only updated every three hours, but gives a pretty good idea of where things are heading etc. Shows the nice line of storms over the top end at present. http://www.myweather.com.au/ Bussie (NE 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: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:22:52 +1000 From: Jane ONeill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie-wx Subject: aus-wx: OFFTOPIC: Greg Browning / Liam Domanski Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com As I can't get hold of these people any other way, my apologies for using the aussie-wx list for this purpose - if Greg Browning & Liam Domanski are out there somewhere - could you please send me an email to cadence at stormchasers.au.com so I can get your correct addresses. Thanks, Jane -------------------------------- Jane ONeill - Melbourne cadence at stormchasers.au.com Melbourne Storm Chasers 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------------------------------ X-Authentication-Warning: new-smtp2.ihug.com.au: Host p12-max60.syd.ihug.com.au [203.173.141.12] claimed to be storm.ihug.com.au X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:15:40 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Bussie, Freshening means the winds will get stronger. And in your case, being after the change it will get cooler but that is separate from the definition. Jimmy Deguara At 08:04 AM 14/10/00 +1000, you wrote: >I've always wondered what the forecast's mean when they say, winds >freshening from the SW or whatever. Freshening? Does that mean it's going to >get colder or the winds will be stronger? > >Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- Jimmy Deguara Storm Chaser and Mathematics Teacher from Schofields, Sydney NSW Australia e-mail:jdeguara at ihug.com.au Web Page with Michael Bath Australian Severe Weather Home Page http://www.australiasevereweather.com President of the Australian Severe Weather Association 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------------------------------ X-Authentication-Warning: new-smtp2.ihug.com.au: Host p12-max60.syd.ihug.com.au [203.173.141.12] claimed to be storm.ihug.com.au X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 07:50:04 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara Subject: aus-wx: Low developing? Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, It seems like from the satellite picture that a low is developing and from the models it will develop along the coast near Yamba. This has been an interesting system and has produced some welcome rain for the farmers in NNSW. However, what took the cake was the impressive explosive development around the Gulf of Carpentaria. Now if we could get some of those a little closer would have be great. They are some of the most impressive massive thunderstorm blobs I have seen for some time on the satellite pictures. I don't know, if people took note, but there was some expansion evident of the tops. I thought it was quite impressive to see the expansion move out in all directions like a ring. Perhaps someone would like to post a satpic image from around 12Z last night and you will see what I mean. Now was that a Mesoscale Convective System? I think it is too large to be a Mesoscale Convective Complex. I haven't identified the parameters of mid-level wins as such but it seemed to look like such a system on the satellite picture and showed massive heights reached in a large area. It seems the whole line of activity stretched an estimated 1500km or more not including the storm activity around Darwin. Cheers ----------------------------------------- Jimmy Deguara Storm Chaser and Mathematics Teacher from Schofields, Sydney NSW Australia e-mail:jdeguara at ihug.com.au Web Page with Michael Bath Australian Severe Weather Home Page http://www.australiasevereweather.com President of the Australian Severe Weather Association 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------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:23:55 +1000 From: Jane ONeill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie-wx Subject: aus-wx: Trough in E Victoria Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Weather in Melbourne: 8.1C, 7/8 Ci, Sc, NW 2kmh and as a point of interest - have a think about this one from the aviation forecast from this morning..... UPPER TROUGH AT 10000FT SALE/ALBURY 17Z, E OF AREA 23Z. TROUGH SLOPES W WITH HEIGHT TO BE NEAR CAPE OTWAY/TOCUMWAL AT 18500FT AT 17Z, MALLACOOTA/COOMA 23Z. SCATTERED SHOWERS, MAINLY ON AND S OF RANGES, MORE WIDESPREAD SW OF BORDERTOWN/WELSHPOOL. ISOLATED HEAVY SHOWERS/ THUNDERSTORMS/HAIL SEA/COAST. LOW CLOUD IN PRECIPITATION/WINDWARD RANGES. ISOLATED FOG ABOUT THE RANGES TILL 23Z. This means that the trough is 300km further west at 18,500' than at 10,000' - can someone give us an angle of slope please? Does this make it a weak trough? Thanks, Jane -------------------------------- Jane ONeill - Melbourne cadence at stormchasers.au.com Melbourne Storm Chasers 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------------------------------ From: "Met Support 3" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:34:07 +1100 Organization: The Weather Company X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Bussie, Freshening means that the winds are going to get stronger but I can see why you get confused as the term fresh is often used by the general public when it is cold e.g. "it's a bit fresh outside today" Matthew Piper ----- Original Message ----- From: "bussie" To: "weather list" Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 9:04 AM Subject: aus-wx: Wondering > I've always wondered what the forecast's mean when they say, winds > freshening from the SW or whatever. Freshening? Does that mean it's going to > get colder or the winds will be stronger? > > Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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-Authentication-Warning: new-smtp2.ihug.com.au: Host p12-max60.syd.ihug.com.au [203.173.141.12] claimed to be storm.ihug.com.au X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:40:47 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara Subject: aus-wx: Action hotting up - back to work Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Jimmy here, The models seem to be suggesting some good storm action for Monday particularly on the north coast region of NSW with perhaps the remnants of the cold air aloft. It may extend down to Sydney - we shall see. A back to work special.. There is also a system developing in WA. I hope it doesn't go through cyclogenisis before it gets here as too much moisture may be dragged through the middle layers. The encouraging sign is this is the best looking October since 1987. Hopefully this points to a better 'normal' season. ---------------------------------------- Jimmy Deguara Storm Chaser and Mathematics Teacher from Schofields, Sydney NSW Australia e-mail:jdeguara at ihug.com.au Web Page with Michael Bath Australian Severe Weather Home Page http://www.australiasevereweather.com President of the Australian Severe Weather Association 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: Harald Richter Subject: aus-wx: Severe Reports 13 Oct 2000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com (Australian Severe Weather Association) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:46:05 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, Does the BOM (or any other agency) collect reports of severe weather in Australia. The type of report I am thinking of is something like ``Roy from Roytown reporting 2cm hail at 2:45pm 3 km N of Roytown.'' Roy has reported all this to his local weather office, or the Bureau itself. I am particularly interested in whether there were any severe reports yesterday (Friday) in NSW or QLD. Cheers, Harald -- ------------------------------------------- Harald Richter NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory 1313 Halley Circle Norman, OK 73069, U.S.A. ph.: (405) 366-0430 fax: (405) 579-0808 email: hrichter at enterprise.nssl.noaa.gov web: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~hrichter ------------------------------------------- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:46:36 +1000 From: Jane ONeill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Low developing? Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Jimmy, I grabbed this image last night http://www.stormchasers.au.com/131000.htm The anvil to the NW measured ~200km from edge to edge!!! There seemed to be 2 merged together to the SE. Jane -------------------------------- Jane ONeill - Melbourne cadence at stormchasers.au.com Melbourne Storm Chasers http://www.stormchasers.au.com ASWA - Victoria http://www.severeweather.asn.au -------------------------------- Jimmy Deguara wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems like from the satellite picture that a low is developing and from > the models it will develop along the coast near Yamba. This has been an > interesting system and has produced some welcome rain for the farmers in NNSW. > > However, what took the cake was the impressive explosive development around > the Gulf of Carpentaria. Now if we could get some of those a little closer > would have be great. They are some of the most impressive massive > thunderstorm blobs I have seen for some time on the satellite pictures. I > don't know, if people took note, but there was some expansion evident of > the tops. I thought it was quite impressive to see the expansion move out > in all directions like a ring. Perhaps someone would like to post a satpic > image from around 12Z last night and you will see what I mean. > > Now was that a Mesoscale Convective System? I think it is too large to be a > Mesoscale Convective Complex. I haven't identified the parameters of > mid-level wins as such but it seemed to look like such a system on the > satellite picture and showed massive heights reached in a large area. It > seems the whole line of activity stretched an estimated 1500km or more not > including the storm activity around Darwin. > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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" To: Subject: Re: (offtopic) aus-wx: UK flooding Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 21:55:11 +0100 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Roenfeldt" To: Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 3:14 PM Subject: Re: (offtopic) aus-wx: UK flooding > > You have missed most of the action. You can keep tabs on it in the futures > with the BBC as it has radar on its website although it is a couple of hours > old at http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/radar.shtml Some parts of S. England copped 6" (152mm) in the last coupla days.... but mostly dry here in the North East.... I'll post other extreme UK / European events up in future if the list wants it.... wintertime tornado action approaches... Les (UK) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "bussie" To: "weather list" Subject: aus-wx: Freshening winds Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:04:10 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Well, they have certainly freshened in the last hour or so, in both cases. Wind is gusting up around 20k's from the SW, and showing a wind chill here at present of 6. And it feels like it too........ Thanks for your help on clearing that up for me everyone. Was a "tad" confused as to what it meant. Bussie (NE 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: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:17:16 +1000 From: Jane ONeill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie-wx Subject: aus-wx: FRONTS: ana & kata Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Morning all, There's a discussion at the moment on the uk.sci.weather newsgroup in the UK about ana- & kata-fronts. Les Crossan has labelled fronts before so I was not unfamiliar with them. The links below are pretty detailed and I'm curious to know what others think about the distinctions made & why this labelling is used in the UK but I can't find it anywhere else, ie: we don't here in Aus / NZ and the USA doesn't to my knowledge. Have a look at this (includes satellite imagery, diagrams etc) http://www.zamg.ac.at/devwww/docu/satmanu3.0/manual/satmanu/manual/Cf/cf0.htm I've also linked the menu of all available conceptual models related to the above http://www.zamg.ac.at/devwww/docu/satmanu3.0/manual/satmanu/manual/cmmenu.htm on the Why is it So?????? page on MSC at http://www.stormchasers.au.com/why.htm Jane -------------------------------- Jane ONeill - Melbourne cadence at stormchasers.au.com Melbourne Storm Chasers 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------------------------------ From: Harald Richter Subject: aus-wx: Low developing? To: aussie-weather at world.std.com (Australian Severe Weather Association) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:11:48 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com G'Day Jimmy, You typed: > However, what took the cake was the impressive explosive development around > the Gulf of Carpentaria. Now if we could get some of those a little closer > would have be great. They are some of the most impressive massive > thunderstorm blobs I have seen for some time on the satellite pictures. I > don't know, if people took note, but there was some expansion evident of > the tops. I thought it was quite impressive to see the expansion move out > in all directions like a ring. Perhaps someone would like to post a satpic > image from around 12Z last night and you will see what I mean. The 12Z/13 analysis of the AVN suggests strong 0-6 km shear extending up to ~ 20 degrees S. There was a 24 C dewpoint axis extending inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria from NNW in the morning (last time I looked at the surface data). That is JUICY GEAR! What was the southern extent of the strong convection? Was the southernmost cell the most intense? > Now was that a Mesoscale Convective System? I think it is too large to be a > Mesoscale Convective Complex. MCCs are a *large-scale* subset of MCSs, provided the MCS is ``sufficiently circular.'' If the system last night was large (and not a linear squall line) it might have been an MCC (see Maddox 1980). From a thundery Norman with a chance for severe NW of here, Harald -- ------------------------------------------- Harald Richter NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory 1313 Halley Circle Norman, OK 73069, U.S.A. ph.: (405) 366-0430 fax: (405) 579-0808 email: hrichter at enterprise.nssl.noaa.gov web: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~hrichter ------------------------------------------- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "bussie" To: "weather list" Subject: aus-wx: Wind Chill Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:16:32 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Talking of wind chill. Just had a look and there was a wind chill here at 7.34 this morning of zero. Sitting on about 2 at present. Time to put a jumper on..... Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ From: "Chris Daley" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:39:22 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I thought it ment it had that minty pine smell to it. Sorry, just couldn't resist :-) Chris (Mooroolbark) ----- Original Message ----- From: "bussie" To: "weather list" Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:04 AM Subject: aus-wx: Wondering > I've always wondered what the forecast's mean when they say, winds > freshening from the SW or whatever. Freshening? Does that mean it's going to > get colder or the winds will be stronger? > > Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: [198.142.93.213] From: "Shaun Whelan" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:24:46 EST X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2000 00:24:46.0258 (UTC) FILETIME=[27DC7920:01C03575] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Lemon for me Shaun Nowra >From: "Chris Daley" >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >To: >Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:39:22 +1000 > >I thought it ment it had that minty pine smell to it. > >Sorry, just couldn't resist :-) > >Chris >(Mooroolbark) > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "bussie" >To: "weather list" >Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:04 AM >Subject: aus-wx: Wondering > > > > I've always wondered what the forecast's mean when they say, winds > > freshening from the SW or whatever. Freshening? Does that mean it's >going >to > > get colder or the winds will be stronger? > > > > Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ > > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:26:33 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Australian Weather Mailing List Subject: aus-wx: Severe T'Storms/Wx in SE QLD! Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all! If you only read one thing, please read the second paragrah!!! I was hoping for something interesting in SE QLD today, but when I woke up at 7:30, it didn't look overly promising, and I was very tempted to roll back over and fall asleep. But I had a niggling feeling that I should check the sats and radar, and was encouraged to see two lines of showers, one presumably a pre-frontal trough, and the other the main front. I wanted the main front, I was hoping for a line/squall line to form. I got ready, and headed out towards Ipswich, and decided to go SSW on the Cunningham Hwy. I came to a photogenic gust front, but there was no place to stop (this is just after it goes from 4 to 2 lanes), and ended up having to pull into a side street near the Mobile on the Cunningham Hwy. It was moving very quickly, and was becoming messy quickly - but was interested by lowerings on the gust front, and also to see if there'd be any severe winds or heavy rainfall. The wind steadily increased as it approached with light-moderate rain, the winds gusted to about 15-20kn at this stage, but as I turned around they gusted upwards to aboutn 35kn! I was able to video tape some of this, and you can make out the twigs/leaves and rain sweeping across the road. I headed northbound on the Cunningham, and soon got into torrential rain - I couldn't even video tape it as it was too heavy/dangerous! This combined with strong (25-30kn sustained here) winds made driving nearly impossible - I did eventually get through it and I exited off the hwy, and decided at the last minute to head on a suburban street westwards, as the gust front hadn't gone through there yet! Now this is where it got exciting/scary - I was driving along and noticed an area where the winds were really increasing (while video taping), and then all of the sudden a spinup crosses the road and throws my car to the left as I start yelling out profanities!!!!!! I was still driving with one hand here, and the video camera sort of goes all over the place, so it's difficult to see the rest after that - but I tried to straighten up the car and accelerate but the winds were too strong to accelerate! I stopped quickly, and the spinup passed within a couple of seconds followed by another 10-15seconds of strong winds before everything resuming to 'normal' - as I drove back through, I noticed some large branches and small trees down! This was also evident on the Cunningham Hwy. What I'm not sure, is if this was simply eddie vorticity by a stronger gust from the houses - or something else!!! But WHOA!!!!!!! I basically tailgated the line back home, occassionally getting heavy rain after that and strong winds. Lots of leaves/small branches scattered around pretty much all the way back home, and LOTS of water on the road, particular around the Ipswich Mwy and the Cunningham Hwy, it was quite difficult to drive as the traction was poor with all of the water on the road. That's it from me!!! -- 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------------------------------ X-Originating-IP: [203.134.152.161] From: "Rune Peitersen" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: oklahoma fury Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:08:21 EST X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2000 01:08:21.0598 (UTC) FILETIME=[3EB9AFE0:01C0357B] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hey all, Nothin but a little rain in sydney yesterday and after forecast 32C a top here of 16! (very fresh) After hours of watching for anything interesting thought we had a massive lightning show erupt only to be some looney on the mountains letting off firecrackes (how rude!)... Don't know if this has been mentioned already but on sydney ABC today there is a show 'Oklahoma Fury' which runs from 5pm till 6pm. Looks at devastating tornadoes in oklahoma. In sydney the sun is out, the sky is blue, theres not a cloud to spoil the view (but in my heart it's raining.....) and so forth...rune _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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: "Ben Quinn" To: Subject: aus-wx: !!!!!!!!! at (#*!!!#$!!!#$ at !!!!!!!*(&#$!!!!! Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:18:11 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Everyone, It is quite possible that i have just witnessed a tornado/gustnado!!!!!! I saw a cone shaped lowering extending ALL the way to the ground in between houses and trees at a set of lights - i was unable to take pics due to the fact my camera had turned itself off while i was driving between lookouts, and the traffic was very heavy (ie. people were beeping at me to go!). I took the harry towards one of my lookouts, which took me a few minutes due to traffic lights - as i was pulling over the hill that leads to my lookout, i got a clear view of it, and it was retracting back into the cloudbase - but was still only a few hundred metres off the ground. I stopped as fast as i could and took another picture http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/bring-it-on1.jpg In the 10-15 seconds it took me to stop and get out of my car it had retracted further, but was still quite close to the ground, and still had a very very obvious cone shape to it. My camera takes a little while to write to the memory card, and it was another 20-30 seconds before i could take a pic http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/bring-it-on2.jpg The reason i am not screaming definate tornado is there were a lot of very sus looking lowerings around after these pics were taken - and although there was rapid upward movement of scud into the lowerings, there wasn't any noticable rotation. Mind you everything was moving that bloody quickly it was extremely hard to be in the right place at the right time to get good pics of things - and a lot of the best stuff i saw was between lookouts, where photo opportunities are rare. I would appreciate peoples oppinions on the above pics - as i said i'm not 100% sure it was a tornado - if it's not, it's doing a very good job of pretending to be one! :P There was also a great gust front assiciated with this line, and i'll upload the rest of the pics and a quick report within the next hour or two BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Whelan" To: Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:24 AM Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering > Lemon for me > Shaun Nowra > > >From: "Chris Daley" > >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > >To: > >Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering > >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:39:22 +1000 > > > >I thought it ment it had that minty pine smell to it. > > > >Sorry, just couldn't resist :-) > > > >Chris > >(Mooroolbark) > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "bussie" > >To: "weather list" > >Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:04 AM > >Subject: aus-wx: Wondering > > > > > > > I've always wondered what the forecast's mean when they say, winds > > > freshening from the SW or whatever. Freshening? Does that mean it's > >going > >to > > > get colder or the winds will be stronger? > > > > > > Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > 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. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.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------------------------------ From: "Ben Quinn" To: Subject: aus-wx: Fake tornado Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:01:18 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi again Just downloaded this interesting picture off the cam http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/fakenader.jpg No that is not a tornado - i think "some kind of gust front arcus formation" would best describe it - but once again its doing a great job of looking like one!!! :) 2 pics of it developing http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/developing1.jpg http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/developing2.jpg +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Findlay" To: Subject: RE: aus-wx: !!!!!!!!! at (#*!!!#$!!!#$ at !!!!!!!*(&#$!!!!! Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:12:49 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Where? Is that Dohles Rocks? David -----Original Message----- From: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com [mailto:aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com]On Behalf Of Ben Quinn Sent: Saturday, 14 October 2000 11:18 AM To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: !!!!!!!!! at (#*!!!#$!!!#$ at !!!!!!!*(&#$!!!!! Hi Everyone, It is quite possible that i have just witnessed a tornado/gustnado!!!!!! I saw a cone shaped lowering extending ALL the way to the ground in between houses and trees at a set of lights - i was unable to take pics due to the fact my camera had turned itself off while i was driving between lookouts, and the traffic was very heavy (ie. people were beeping at me to go!). I took the harry towards one of my lookouts, which took me a few minutes due to traffic lights - as i was pulling over the hill that leads to my lookout, i got a clear view of it, and it was retracting back into the cloudbase - but was still only a few hundred metres off the ground. I stopped as fast as i could and took another picture http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/bring-it-on1.jpg In the 10-15 seconds it took me to stop and get out of my car it had retracted further, but was still quite close to the ground, and still had a very very obvious cone shape to it. My camera takes a little while to write to the memory card, and it was another 20-30 seconds before i could take a pic http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/bring-it-on2.jpg The reason i am not screaming definate tornado is there were a lot of very sus looking lowerings around after these pics were taken - and although there was rapid upward movement of scud into the lowerings, there wasn't any noticable rotation. Mind you everything was moving that bloody quickly it was extremely hard to be in the right place at the right time to get good pics of things - and a lot of the best stuff i saw was between lookouts, where photo opportunities are rare. I would appreciate peoples oppinions on the above pics - as i said i'm not 100% sure it was a tornado - if it's not, it's doing a very good job of pretending to be one! :P There was also a great gust front assiciated with this line, and i'll upload the rest of the pics and a quick report within the next hour or two BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Whelan" To: Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:24 AM Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering > Lemon for me > Shaun Nowra > > >From: "Chris Daley" > >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > >To: > >Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering > >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:39:22 +1000 > > > >I thought it ment it had that minty pine smell to it. > > > >Sorry, just couldn't resist :-) > > > >Chris > >(Mooroolbark) > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "bussie" > >To: "weather list" > >Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:04 AM > >Subject: aus-wx: Wondering > > > > > > > I've always wondered what the forecast's mean when they say, winds > > > freshening from the SW or whatever. Freshening? Does that mean it's > >going > >to > > > get colder or the winds will be stronger? > > > > > > Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > 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. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Findlay" To: Subject: RE: aus-wx: !!!!!!!!! at (#*!!!#$!!!#$ at !!!!!!!*(&#$!!!!! Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:16:05 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Was this this morning? I saw a similar cloud formation of lowerings, similar to a wall cloud, but suddenly a whole bunch of cloud dropped down and spreaded out. Looked like a downburst of some sort. Is this possible. It was this morning around 10am and I was near Kippa-Ring. David -----Original Message----- From: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com [mailto:aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com]On Behalf Of Ben Quinn Sent: Saturday, 14 October 2000 11:18 AM To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: !!!!!!!!! at (#*!!!#$!!!#$ at !!!!!!!*(&#$!!!!! Hi Everyone, It is quite possible that i have just witnessed a tornado/gustnado!!!!!! I saw a cone shaped lowering extending ALL the way to the ground in between houses and trees at a set of lights - i was unable to take pics due to the fact my camera had turned itself off while i was driving between lookouts, and the traffic was very heavy (ie. people were beeping at me to go!). I took the harry towards one of my lookouts, which took me a few minutes due to traffic lights - as i was pulling over the hill that leads to my lookout, i got a clear view of it, and it was retracting back into the cloudbase - but was still only a few hundred metres off the ground. I stopped as fast as i could and took another picture http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/bring-it-on1.jpg In the 10-15 seconds it took me to stop and get out of my car it had retracted further, but was still quite close to the ground, and still had a very very obvious cone shape to it. My camera takes a little while to write to the memory card, and it was another 20-30 seconds before i could take a pic http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/bring-it-on2.jpg The reason i am not screaming definate tornado is there were a lot of very sus looking lowerings around after these pics were taken - and although there was rapid upward movement of scud into the lowerings, there wasn't any noticable rotation. Mind you everything was moving that bloody quickly it was extremely hard to be in the right place at the right time to get good pics of things - and a lot of the best stuff i saw was between lookouts, where photo opportunities are rare. I would appreciate peoples oppinions on the above pics - as i said i'm not 100% sure it was a tornado - if it's not, it's doing a very good job of pretending to be one! :P There was also a great gust front assiciated with this line, and i'll upload the rest of the pics and a quick report within the next hour or two BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Whelan" To: Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:24 AM Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering > Lemon for me > Shaun Nowra > > >From: "Chris Daley" > >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > >To: > >Subject: Re: aus-wx: Wondering > >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:39:22 +1000 > > > >I thought it ment it had that minty pine smell to it. > > > >Sorry, just couldn't resist :-) > > > >Chris > >(Mooroolbark) > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "bussie" > >To: "weather list" > >Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:04 AM > >Subject: aus-wx: Wondering > > > > > > > I've always wondered what the forecast's mean when they say, winds > > > freshening from the SW or whatever. Freshening? Does that mean it's > >going > >to > > > get colder or the winds will be stronger? > > > > > > Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > 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. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "Chris Daley" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Fake tornado Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:35:19 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Great pics Ben, hope the weather gets like that down Melbourne way soon. Hanging out down here for a bit more action. By the way, the pic developing1.jpg, where was that taken? I was up in Surfer's in Feb this year and that pic looks like it's around Southport somewhere. Chris P.S Already got the tape in for Okalahoma '99 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Quinn" To: Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:01 PM Subject: aus-wx: Fake tornado > Hi again > > > Just downloaded this interesting picture off the cam > > http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/fakenader.jpg > > No that is not a tornado - i think "some kind of gust front arcus formation" > would best describe it - but once again its doing a great job of looking > like one!!! :) > > 2 pics of it developing > > http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/developing1.jpg > http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/developing2.jpg > > > > > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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: "Chris Daley" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Severe T'Storms/Wx in SE QLD! Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:26:54 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Sounds like you had a bit of fun there Anthony. I think when I get around to getting a video camera, I might make up a bracket to mount it to the dash. That way I dont miss any of the action while I'm holding the steering wheel for grim death. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Cornelius" To: "Australian Weather Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 10:26 AM Subject: aus-wx: Severe T'Storms/Wx in SE QLD! > Hi all! > > If you only read one thing, please read the second paragrah!!! > > I was hoping for something interesting in SE QLD today, but when I woke > up at 7:30, it didn't look overly promising, and I was very tempted to > roll back over and fall asleep. But I had a niggling feeling that I > should check the sats and radar, and was encouraged to see two lines of > showers, one presumably a pre-frontal trough, and the other the main > front. I wanted the main front, I was hoping for a line/squall line to > form. I got ready, and headed out towards Ipswich, and decided to go > SSW on the Cunningham Hwy. I came to a photogenic gust front, but there > was no place to stop (this is just after it goes from 4 to 2 lanes), and > ended up having to pull into a side street near the Mobile on the > Cunningham Hwy. It was moving very quickly, and was becoming messy > quickly - but was interested by lowerings on the gust front, and also to > see if there'd be any severe winds or heavy rainfall. The wind steadily > increased as it approached with light-moderate rain, the winds gusted to > about 15-20kn at this stage, but as I turned around they gusted upwards > to aboutn 35kn! I was able to video tape some of this, and you can make > out the twigs/leaves and rain sweeping across the road. I headed > northbound on the Cunningham, and soon got into torrential rain - I > couldn't even video tape it as it was too heavy/dangerous! This > combined with strong (25-30kn sustained here) winds made driving nearly > impossible - I did eventually get through it and I exited off the hwy, > and decided at the last minute to head on a suburban street westwards, > as the gust front hadn't gone through there yet! > > Now this is where it got exciting/scary - I was driving along and > noticed an area where the winds were really increasing (while video > taping), and then all of the sudden a spinup crosses the road and throws > my car to the left as I start yelling out profanities!!!!!! I was still > driving with one hand here, and the video camera sort of goes all over > the place, so it's difficult to see the rest after that - but I tried to > straighten up the car and accelerate but the winds were too strong to > accelerate! I stopped quickly, and the spinup passed within a couple of > seconds followed by another 10-15seconds of strong winds before > everything resuming to 'normal' - as I drove back through, I noticed > some large branches and small trees down! This was also evident on the > Cunningham Hwy. What I'm not sure, is if this was simply eddie > vorticity by a stronger gust from the houses - or something else!!! But > WHOA!!!!!!! > > I basically tailgated the line back home, occassionally getting heavy > rain after that and strong winds. Lots of leaves/small branches > scattered around pretty much all the way back home, and LOTS of water on > the road, particular around the Ipswich Mwy and the Cunningham Hwy, it > was quite difficult to drive as the traction was poor with all of the > water on the road. > > That's it from me!!! > -- > 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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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, 13 Oct 2000 22:41:47 -0400 From: "Leslie R. Lemon" Subject: aus-wx: oklahoma fury To: "INTERNET:aussie-weather at world.std.com" X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id WAA09665 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I believe that will be the May 3rd OKC tornado....F5 long track, killed 46. Les ************************ Leslie R. Lemon Radar, Severe Storms, & Research Meteorologist Phone: 816-373-3533, cell: 816-213-3237 E-Mail: lrlemon at compuserve.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: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:20:23 +1000 From: Jane ONeill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie-wx Subject: aus-wx: WX: Victoria Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Afternoon from 10.9C in Melbourne. We've just had a heavy shower - rain rate of 60mm/hr for a few minutes. Paul Yole has reported Cbs going up to the NW of Murtoa (near Horsham)!! Aviation forecast for Victoria now reads FRONT MOVING E 25 KNOTS FORECAST LAMEROO/E SALE 04Z, NEAR WAGGA 11Z. SCATTERED SHOWERS ABOUT SEA, WINDWARD COAST/RANGES, BUT MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS NEAR FRONT, PARTICULARLY IN THE S. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS/HAIL COAST/SEA CONTRACTING EASTWARDS AFTER 11Z. SNOW SHOWERS ABOVE 4000FT. South of the front & jet across the Bight is a large field of 'open cells' and NW of the front & jetstream it's all 'closed cells' - this afternoon & evening will be interesting for Victoria & Western Tasmania with the advance of the cold air...... http://207.133.112.37/gms5/austvis.jpg http://webcam.omni.net.au/ .............some nice showers to the south of Port Phillip Bay Jane -------------------------------- Jane ONeill - Melbourne cadence at stormchasers.au.com Melbourne Storm Chasers 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------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:28:03 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Severe Reports 13 Oct 2000 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Harald, Jimmy and all, Here's a cropped GMSD loop of the storms in NW QLD yesterday - quite impressive!: http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/anthony/QLDLoop.gif In regards to Harald's question, the only two organisations that I know of that collect reports are the BOM and ASWA! AC PS - you were't far off on your Charleville prediction, just a tad further north - good work! Harald Richter wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does the BOM (or any other agency) collect reports of > severe weather in Australia. The type of report I am thinking of > is something like ``Roy from Roytown reporting 2cm hail at > 2:45pm 3 km N of Roytown.'' Roy has reported all this > to his local weather office, or the Bureau itself. > > I am particularly interested in whether there were any severe > reports yesterday (Friday) in NSW or QLD. > > Cheers, Harald > > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Harald Richter > NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory > 1313 Halley Circle > Norman, OK 73069, U.S.A. > ph.: (405) 366-0430 > fax: (405) 579-0808 > email: hrichter at enterprise.nssl.noaa.gov > web: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~hrichter > ------------------------------------------- > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Storm Chasers on ABC this Sunday night Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 05:59:47 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id BAA28648 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Just a reminder to all that the pre-documentary documentary "Storm Chasers" is on ABC TV tomorrow, Sunday, night at 6.30. With my track record of remembering good shows ~1 hour after they finish, I'm setting up the VCR now. Laurier +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: Re: aus-wx: sat pics Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 05:59:40 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id BAA28632 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:09:23 +1000, "bussie" wrote: >I've always liked this site. Animated sat pics only updated every three >hours, but gives a pretty good idea of where things are heading etc. Shows >the nice line of storms over the top end at present. >http://www.myweather.com.au/ >Bussie (NE Victoria) > Bussie, if you like this, you may prefer the small animated satpix at http://www.abc.net.au/news/weather/default.htm -- IMHO it's clearer, is updated hourly, and is smoother because it uses the past 20 hours of hourly IR satpix. -- 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------------------------------ From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Severe Reports 13 Oct 2000 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 05:59:34 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id BAA28366 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Harald Some others on the list know more about this than I do, but each state office of the Bureau maintains a severe weather database which records reports like your theoretical one. Much of the current information comes from the 12,000 or so storm spotters the Bureau has cultivated. Unfortunately, access to the database usually means a personal visit to the relevant state office. Something that ASWA might like as a challenge is to persuade the state offices to get the database onto the Net in some form -- easy availability of the data would not only be good for research outside the Bureau, but would undoubtedly generate corrections/additions to existing reports and an enthusiasm to expand the database. The severe weather database has a research rather than a real time objective. I keep a realtime database of all synoptic and AWS reports of severe and noteworthy weather on my site at http://ausweather.simplenet.com -- just follow the link at the top of the page. It is updated hourly, and has a one-week archive. It simply filters all Australian observations according to a set of criteria (windspeed, rainfall rate, etc.) which is detailed in the notes link at the top of the severe and noteworthy weather page. It is worth keeping an eye on the observer plain language comments, across on the right hand side of each observation, because they often give greater detail about hail, times of storms, and weather-related incidents away from the station itself. Laurier Williams Australian Weather News and Links http://ausweather.simplenet.com On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:46:05 -0500 (CDT), Harald Richter wrote: > >Hi all, > >Does the BOM (or any other agency) collect reports of >severe weather in Australia. The type of report I am thinking of >is something like ``Roy from Roytown reporting 2cm hail at >2:45pm 3 km N of Roytown.'' Roy has reported all this >to his local weather office, or the Bureau itself. > >I am particularly interested in whether there were any severe >reports yesterday (Friday) in NSW or QLD. > >Cheers, Harald +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "bussie" To: "weather list" Subject: aus-wx: That's better Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:24:05 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Bussie, if you like this, you may prefer the small animated satpix at http://www.abc.net.au/news/weather/default.htm -- IMHO it's clearer, is updated hourly, and is smoother because it uses the past 20 hours of hourly IR satpix. That's certainly a better one. Thanks Laurier. Bussie (NE 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------------------------------ From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: OFFTOPIC: What's the best digital video camera for wx photography? Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 06:34:59 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id BAA06570 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I'm in the market for a digital video cam and really would welcome comments from those who have them -- recommendations and some criteria of what to look for (in weather/cloud shooting terms!) I'm looking at ~$3000 duty free, and hoping for still image capture (preferably by card), good stills from video, good colour rendition and picture quality, >12x optical zoom, time lapse capability, and the ability to interface to a computer editing program farther down the track -- hopefully not too unrealistic. I had a quick look through the aussie-wx archives, but couldn't see any *recent* comment in this area. I've deliberately held off replacing a very old (and dead) video cam until the digitals became affordable, and an overseas trip now gives me the opportunity (read: excuse) to buy one. Any thoughts from the experts would be very helpful, as there's a limit to what you can learn from stats sheets, video camera magazine reviews and websites! Laurier On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:19:54 +1000, steve baynham wrote: >hi folks! >just a quick question on ppls opinions on video cameras. i will be getting >one soon but am deciding between brands, flip out screens, 8mmm or vhs-c >etc etc. >any hints or tips on purchasing would be appreciated. or if ya know of >someone who is selling:) >please reply to bayns at broad.net.au > >thankyou >Steve Baynham >http://www.com/ok/gany > >Australian Severe Weather Association >http://www.severeweather.asn.au > >Brisbane Storm Chasers >http://www.bsch.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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "Met Support 3" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: OFFTOPIC: What's the best digital video camera for wx photography? Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:14:54 +1100 Organization: The Weather Company X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Laurier, I have a Sony DCR-TRV320 digital video camera. I can highly recommend it as I used it on an overseas trip recently and the video and sound quality is just fantastic. You can also take still shots with it using a memory card. Here are some stats that will be of interest to you. Price: I bought mine for around $2200 in May this year. This price included the camera, bag, 2 batteries and 2 memory cards (4MB and 8MB). It also came with a free tape thrown in as well. Still Image Capture: Yes (I can send you some examples if you like) Stills from Video: Yes Picture Quality and Colour Rendition: Excellent (Almost broadcast quality) Optical Zoom: 25X Time Lapse: No Computer Interface Ability: Yes (I bought a firewire card for my computer the other day so I could edit digital video on my PC. I can say that it does a mighty good job although you certainly need a second HDD of 20GB or so to put the video on whilst your editing it) Anyway I hope I have been of some assistance. If you need anymore info just give me a yell. Matthew Piper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurier Williams" To: Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 5:34 PM Subject: aus-wx: OFFTOPIC: What's the best digital video camera for wx photography? > I'm in the market for a digital video cam and really would welcome > comments from those who have them -- recommendations and some criteria > of what to look for (in weather/cloud shooting terms!) I'm looking at > ~$3000 duty free, and hoping for still image capture (preferably by > card), good stills from video, good colour rendition and picture > quality, >12x optical zoom, time lapse capability, and the ability to > interface to a computer editing program farther down the track -- > hopefully not too unrealistic. > > I had a quick look through the aussie-wx archives, but couldn't see > any *recent* comment in this area. I've deliberately held off > replacing a very old (and dead) video cam until the digitals became > affordable, and an overseas trip now gives me the opportunity (read: > excuse) to buy one. Any thoughts from the experts would be very > helpful, as there's a limit to what you can learn from stats sheets, > video camera magazine reviews and websites! > > Laurier > > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:19:54 +1000, steve baynham > wrote: > > >hi folks! > >just a quick question on ppls opinions on video cameras. i will be getting > >one soon but am deciding between brands, flip out screens, 8mmm or vhs-c > >etc etc. > >any hints or tips on purchasing would be appreciated. or if ya know of > >someone who is selling:) > >please reply to bayns at broad.net.au > > > >thankyou > >Steve Baynham > >http://www.com/ok/gany > > > >Australian Severe Weather Association > >http://www.severeweather.asn.au > > > >Brisbane Storm Chasers > >http://www.bsch.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------------------------------ > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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: [203.18.21.200] From: "Simon" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: oklahoma fury Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:58:57 EST X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2000 06:58:57.0632 (UTC) FILETIME=[392DBE00:01C035AC] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com One of the best damn documentaries that I've seen on Tornados in a long time! Thank you Channel 2! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: FRONTS: ana & kata Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:21:06 +0100 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane ONeill" To: "Aussie-wx" Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:17 AM Subject: aus-wx: FRONTS: ana & kata > Morning all, > > There's a discussion at the moment on the uk.sci.weather newsgroup in > the UK about ana- & kata-fronts. Les Crossan has labelled fronts The UK is generally the first landfall atlantic LP systems hit - anafronts intensify as they cross the UK (friction?) so a fairly weak cold front in Ireland can be a severe event on the east coast - spewing out marble hail and tornadoes my the time they reach Lincolnshire. Interest always intensifies on anafronts in wintertime as they can be a good source of action! Yup, this rearward sloping anafront business seems to be fairly unique to the UK & Europe. In summary a katafront is when the cold air rides over the warm air, giving stratus but anafronts have the cold air burrowing under the warm air and forcing it up. If you get an upper level jet and an upper trough at the trailing edge of the front then conditions are ripe for the UK wintertime tornado.... but these babies move fast and last for all of twenty minutes. Anthony C has discussed anafronts on auswx before... Anafronts are not to dissimilar to line squalls indeed postings on uksciwx reporting severe CF action usually state CF / squall. Perhaps it's because warm fronts arent so pronounced in Australia... Les (UK - the same Les Crossan ) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: FRONTS: ana & kata Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:37:46 +0100 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane ONeill" To: "Aussie-wx" Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:17 AM Subject: aus-wx: FRONTS: ana & kata > Morning all, > > There's a discussion at the moment on the uk.sci.weather newsgroup in > the UK about ana- & kata-fronts. Rearward sloping anafronts show up on pressure charts as (1) a kink on the frontal boundary and (2) a sharp veer to the NW from the SW. At the front the veer can be quite pronounced it can happen in minutes as well as a drop in temperature of as much as 10C (thats a lot in our winter). They show up on radar as thin lines of intense rainfall, perhaps fragmented, much like line squalls. These wind directions are, of course, northern hemisphere. Les +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: OFFTOPIC: What's the best digital video camera for wx photography? Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 22:15:43 +1000 Organization: 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 The time lapse is going to be the hard piece to get at any fair price. I believe the top end Sony's have a sort of time lapse, at $3000 duty free that puts you well towards the upper range in quality. The JVC's, even the cheaper ones have time lapse, but the fact that it's on the cheaper models tells me that the implementation of the feature may be not true frame by frame, but rather a 1-2 second record, then pause, then another 1-2 record. This gives a rather jerky inferior time lapse. There have been several threads on the US WX-CHase mail list regarding cameras, the Sony TRV 900? is used by some USA chasers. Michael > I'm in the market for a digital video cam and really would welcome > comments from those who have them -- recommendations and some criteria > of what to look for (in weather/cloud shooting terms!) I'm looking at > ~$3000 duty free, and hoping for still image capture (preferably by > card), good stills from video, good colour rendition and picture > quality, >12x optical zoom, time lapse capability, and the ability to > interface to a computer editing program farther down the track -- > hopefully not too unrealistic. > > I had a quick look through the aussie-wx archives, but couldn't see > any *recent* comment in this area. I've deliberately held off > replacing a very old (and dead) video cam until the digitals became > affordable, and an overseas trip now gives me the opportunity (read: > excuse) to buy one. Any thoughts from the experts would be very > helpful, as there's a limit to what you can learn from stats sheets, > video camera magazine reviews and websites! > > Laurier > > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:19:54 +1000, steve baynham > wrote: > > >hi folks! > >just a quick question on ppls opinions on video cameras. i will be getting > >one soon but am deciding between brands, flip out screens, 8mmm or vhs-c > >etc etc. > >any hints or tips on purchasing would be appreciated. or if ya know of > >someone who is selling:) > >please reply to bayns at broad.net.au > > > >thankyou > >Steve Baynham > >http://www.com/ok/gany > > > >Australian Severe Weather Association > >http://www.severeweather.asn.au > > > >Brisbane Storm Chasers > >http://www.bsch.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------------------------------ > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------