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At 10:52 2/12/00 +1030, you wrote:
>Well here in Adelaide the weather has been very very boring lately.  At Kent 
>Town no rain above a Tce on one day has been recorded for abuot 23 days now. 
>  This is quite a turn around from all of the rain we had in winter and 
>September and October.  I really expected spring to bring some good storm 
>activity to Adelaide but we've only had one in early November which wasn't 
>all that great. Anyway the monsoon development and the possibility of a
tropical cyclone 
>developing over the weekend is still pretty interesting if nothing happens 
>here in little old Adelaide.

Here in Christchurch, it can be rather boring weather-wise for long periods
of time.
We had a thunderstorm drought here - 13 months and 25 days between
thunderstorms. 
We did have had another more spectacular one since the 'drought-breaker'
but then it could be another  - 13 months and 25 days until the next
thunderstorm !!
There are lots of other interesting things you can do to fill in time in
the meanwhilst 
Some examples
1)   learn how to knit
2)   take golfing lessons
3)   take up morris dancing
4)   chase steam trains
5)   watch continuous repeated episodes of "Neighbours"
6)   become very interested in anticyclones

Just a few tips

John Gaul
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NZTS - more than just thunder

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Hi everyone,

I usually do this type of "verification" mentally,  but typed it out
this time:

Yesterday I guessed:

> ...  A new shortwave has moved into W AUS
> where it might couple with some better PBL moisture NE of Kalgoorlie 
> (or it mightn't).  Maybe we'll see some general thunder ahead
> of the trough in SA.

Satellite imagery (my primary verification tool for convection per se)
revealed a weak band of convection NE of Kalgoorlie around 5-6 Z.
Nothing too long-lived.  I think the precip stayed west of Adelaide
during daylight hours. 
 
> (1) Extreme N WA/NT, especially the Gulf Country.

Seems to be a pretty sure bet at this time of year.

> (2) QLD, with possible remnants of flow on the back side
> of the exiting trough most likely to be found over SE QLD.
> I see the danger that subsidence near the H to the S 
> could suppress convection. 

The 00Z Brisbane sounding hinted towards it, and the 11Z sounding
made it painfully clear.  A very strong lid formed by 11Z around
750mb preventing any deep moist convective overturning.  Despite ESE surface 
flow the surface dewpoints decreased monotonically as you went inland
from the SE QLD coastline.  My guess is that the trajectories around
the H were descending more and more into the interiour of the continent,
and that they were building the lid over Brisbane to keep certain golfers
happy.  The upper-PBL moisture also decreased rapidly between 00Z and 11Z
despite SE flow.   

The AVN did not capture the lid and its effects. The forecast for 06Z 
showed precip all along the NE NSW/SE QLD coast.  This is *not* the
first time I have seen a model with "lid problems."

Cheers, Harald

PS:  OUTLOOK today:  relax (or get onto a flight to Darwin)


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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:55:11 -0500
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Ben Quinn wrote:

> I have uploaded some awesome webcam images i've saved over the last few
days
> from Sydney and Darwin - the shelf cloud on the Syndey cam this morning
was
> quite spectacular!
> 
> http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/tempcams/sydney.html
> 
> http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/tempcams/darwin.html
> 
> 
> Webcam chasing - i could get used to this :-)

Indeed, these are great shots!  Thanks for sharing them.  What did you
experience after the passage of the shelf cloud?  Storms of this type
usually have frequent lightning, very heavy rain, sometimes small hail, but
the most important severe phenomena  is the damaging wind.

Les


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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 06:34:13 +1100
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Hi Leslie

The bizarre thing about this shelf cloud was that it was not on a
storm...well that I know of anyway. In fact, I wasn't even aware it was
there until Ben pointed it out to me on the webcam.(He lives in Brisbane and
me in Sydney!) This was on a very heavy coastal shower, which incidentally,
was only showing the weakest radar signal possible, not an uncommon
occurrence with Sydney coastal showers. There was no lightning however, that
I saw. There were strong winds around later that evening, although I don't
know of any specific reports from that shower. I believe this shower formed
on the leading edge of the thermal trough that moved into Sydney on Friday
afternoon, which subsequently produced numerous hailstorms, some severe,
across the city during the afternoon and evening, and may have been the
first indication of the rapid destabilisation that was to follow in the
middle levels.

Matt Pearce

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From: "McDonald" <mcdonald at one.net.au>
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Subject: aus-wx: TD2K Update
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 10:19:58 +1100
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings all from a cloudy (and cold!&nbsp; Well, 
I think it's cold - Macca does not) Melbourne</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Macca and I are heading back out for another week 
of chasing, after a short visit to Melbourne for a few family commitments we'll 
be off again!&nbsp; The past two weeks and a bit have been absolutely phenomenal 
to put it bluntly!&nbsp; Two big systems, of which any one of these systems by 
itself would have been better than all of last years two weeks combined.&nbsp; 
Numerous supercells, funnels, WC's and a tornado (shame this isn't 
plural).&nbsp; I know that Macca and I have learnt a hell of a lot over the past 
2 weeks, it's been an absolutely fantastic experience!&nbsp; You know when 
you've had a successful chase though, when you're absolutely buggered and get to 
the point of saying "geez I hope nothing happens today, I'd like a 
rest."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, in saying this, I would like to see the 
following week being progged to be a tad more interesting - but it looks like 
there'll be a broad inland trough sitting over central NSW, so hopefully we 
might get something interesting here.&nbsp; It'd be better if it hadn't dried 
out so much though over the inland!&nbsp; But as the famous saying goes "we'll 
see what happens."&nbsp; We're going to head off into southern NSW today...we 
had aimed to leave early, but yesterday being our "day of rest", ended up not 
going to bed until after 3am :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have something like 15hrs of video footage, and 
over 800 photos so far...as I said, it's been just fantastic!&nbsp; Not just 
confined to storm chasing too...we've done some sunset, fog and flood chases too 
:)&nbsp; </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway...I hope everyone is gearing up for a huge 
week starting from Dec 10, as TD2K finishes then, so there's bound to be a big 
system of supercells come through during the week after that!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Time to finish the&nbsp;repairs on the car 
(courtesy of NSW roads)...and depart for another week!&nbsp; We both look 
forward to catching up with everyone in the next week!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>AC &amp; Macca</FONT></DIV>
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From: "Ben Quinn" <benquinn at optushome.com.au>
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Subject: aus-wx: Darwin Storm Pics
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:07:51 +1000
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<DIV>Hi Everyone,</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>Jason hasn't had much time on the net where he's staying, so these pics are 
a few days late</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>New pics have been added to the Nov 24 page</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
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<DIV>And new pics for the following dates</DIV>
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<DIV><A 
href="http://bsch.simplenet.com/lem/td2knt/nov29.html">http://bsch.simplenet.com/lem/td2knt/nov29.html</A></DIV>
<DIV><A 
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<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>Enjoy</DIV>
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Hi Leslie,

As Matt said i don't actually live in Sydney, but from my webcam obs the
shelf cloud only looked good for a very short time - 15 mins max -before
completely dissipating over a period of about 5 mins.  This is common,
almost standard for coastal showers (in QLD anyway).  Most of the time the
showers around my location will look decent for less than 5 minutes once
they reach peak intensity, then collapse quite quickly.



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> Ben Quinn wrote:
>
> > I have uploaded some awesome webcam images i've saved over the last few
> days
> > from Sydney and Darwin - the shelf cloud on the Syndey cam this morning
> was
> > quite spectacular!
> >
> > http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/tempcams/sydney.html
> >
> > http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/tempcams/darwin.html
> >
> >
> > Webcam chasing - i could get used to this :-)
>
> Indeed, these are great shots!  Thanks for sharing them.  What did you
> experience after the passage of the shelf cloud?  Storms of this type
> usually have frequent lightning, very heavy rain, sometimes small hail,
but
> the most important severe phenomena  is the damaging wind.
>
> Les
>
>
> ************************
> Leslie R. Lemon
> Radar, Severe Storms, & Research Meteorologist
> Tel. 816-373-3533, 816-213-3237
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took these on teh 20th of november from the rooftop. watching the guster
come through from the south late afternoon. heavy dose of rain there to the
northwest of burleigh, gold coast. looks like robina/mudgeeraba area. time
was about 5 ish maybe later
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/20110001.jpg E
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/20110002.jpg NW
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/20110003.jpg NW
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/20110004.jpg ENE

teh wind was pretty strong as it hit. there was a little lightning with it.
the fourth image is looking out from underneath it after it passed


Steve Baynham
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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 18:40:12 +1100
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I know a high SOI doesn't necessarily mean a wet spell but at the moment
it's going through the roof--have a look at:
http://www.dnr.qld.gov.au/longpdk/latest/lattable.htm
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Hi All.

The BoM has upgraded the TC Watch to a TC Warning, pasted below.

Links to all TC Advices etc. and a map showing the location are on my
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TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING

TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 5
Issued by the BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY, DARWIN
at 4:30 pm CST [3:00 pm WST] Sunday 3 December 2000

A CYCLONE WARNING is now current for coastal and island communities
between KALUMBURU and KURI BAY in Western Australia.

A CYCLONE WATCH extends east to WYNDHAM.

At 5 pm CST 3.30pm WST a Tropical Low was centred about 150 kilometres north
northeast of KALUMBURU and 415 kilometres west of DARWIN, moving south at 9
kilometres per hour towards the coast.

GALES with gusts to 90 kilometres per hour are expected to develop on the coast
between KALUMBURU and KURI BAY late on Monday.

Details of the Tropical Low at 5 pm CST 3.30 pm WST:
 . Centre located near....... 13.0 degrees South 127.0 degrees East
 . Location accuracy......... within 120 kilometres
 . Recent movement........... towards the south at 9 km/h
 . Wind gusts near centre.... 80 kilometres per hour slowly intensifying
 . Intensity.................
 . Central pressure.......... 999 hectoPascals

REPEATING:  A CYCLONE WARNING is current between KALUMBURU and KURI BAY in
Western Australia. A CYCLONE WATCH extends east to WYNDHAM.

The NEXT ADVICE will be issued at 8 pm CST 6.30 pm WST.

This advice is available on telephone 1300 659 211.

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BLUE ALERT: Kalumburu.
For further information contact WA State Emergency Service.

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Keith--
There have beenat leats 5 Novembers in the past 120 years with a higher
SOI - the last two were in 1988 and 1973 and both were followed by very
wet summers.
Don W
eith Barnett wrote:
> 
> I know a high SOI doesn't necessarily mean a wet spell but at the moment
> it's going through the roof--have a look at:
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Part of the TDU2K crew found themselves right under this storm. After
starting at Quirindi we followed the line from 12.30pm to 9pm, only to be
finally chased into retirement by a weak cell raining on us.

We were just 2km NW of Gunnedah around 6pm when a severe microburst let
loose, at one stage I simply had to pull over as the rain and wind was
simply impossible to see through. In the space of 30 seconds the winds
backed 180 degrees bringing small 1-2cm hail horizontal, the hail left clean
spots over my otherwise filthy car. Jane O'Neill has some video of the
storm, my favourite piece is watching how the rain was literally blown off
her windscreen whilst stopped. It was if she was doing 100kph with a good
dose of rainX on the screen. We encountered large tree branches over the
road just 500m from where we stopped.

Michael


>
> "Storms wreak havoc across north-west NSW"
>
> Severe storms lashed north-western New South Wales
> last night, damaging some homes and bringing down
> scores of trees.
>
> The storms also resulted in widespread electricity failures.
>
> At Gunnedah, two homes were extensively damaged by
> wind, hail and falling trees.
>
> There has also been damage on many farming properties
> in the area.
>
> Thousands of people in the Tamworth district were without
> electricity for hours and reports of hail damage to home
> gardens and trees are still being reported.
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Miskelly
> Illawarra/Southern Tablelands, NSW
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From: "Michael Thompson" <michaelt at ozemail.com.au>
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If your camera is a simple 8mm the Hi 8 tape would still work, but there is
no advantage what so ever, in fact Hi8 tapes cost more.

Michael

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> What about normal 8mm, is that the same as Hi8?? Just getting into this
> video stuff and wondered if the Hi8 tapes can be used on my Video Camera,
> which is a Sony TR317e.
>
> Andrew W
>
>
>
> At 08:13 PM 11/27/00 +1100, you wrote:
> >Hi Mal,
> >
> >Is your video camera Digital or Hi8. If its Digital I would recommend the
> >"Pinnacle Studio DV" card which uses the firewire interface to capture
video
> >onto your PC. If on the otherhand your camera is a Hi8 I would use a card
> >such as "Hauppauge's WinTV". I have both of these cards in my PC and have
> >had no problems with them at all. They both can capture still and full
> >motion video. The Hauppauge WinTV captures to the AVI format but you can
get
> >converters off the net which will allow you to create MPEG files. The
> >Pinnacle Studio DV card outputs to all the common video formats such as
> >MPEG, AVI and RealVideo.
> >
> >Matthew Piper
> >
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From: "Michael Thompson" <michaelt at ozemail.com.au>
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Harold: You r a legend!
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 19:48:26 +1100
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To be fair to the BOM they simply would not have 
the budget to prepare such forecasts. I am sure there are some BOM staff who 
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From: "Michael Thompson" <michaelt at ozemail.com.au>
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Tornado on TD2K + 4 happy/tired chasers
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 20:20:36 +1100
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I also was chasing this storm, Macca's video being a great little digital
number can be stepped frame by frame, and without much quality loss ( I want
one ). I must admit that I did not see the funnel myself, but the storm went
on to unroof a house in the Boggabri township. The local paper had a pic of
roofing iron wrapped around a telegraph pole.

Indeed the day ( and following ones ) were dominated by microbursts. I have
never seen so many rainfoots before. I agree with Anthony, this cell was not
a supercell, it was simply too disorganised and lacked rotation.

Michael





> A tornado was filmed by Anthony, Macca, Matt and Greg about 10km north of
> Mullalley this afternoon, which is south of Boggabri and west of Gunnedah
> for those who don't have a clue where I'm talking about. Basically, the
> situation started with a rainshaft out of the storm, through which the
> funnel is observed to descend. A feature of all the storms today
apparently
> in the area was the frequency of microbursts, probably due to the very dry
> boundary layer conditions, and this was ultimately the downfall of the
> tornado. The funnel descended further and a debris cloud was then visible
on
> the ground for about 30 seconds beneath the funnel. Anthony does not
believe
> the storm itself was a supercell and that the vorticity for the tornado
may
> have been aided by the many microbursts in the area...so it was a
> non-supercellular tornado...something we are seeing more and more in
> Australia over recent months.
>
> A brief chronolgy of events surrounding the tornado was as follows:
> 5:25:38 - funnel first sighted
> 5:25:42 - condensation funnel extends to ground
> 5:26:32 - condensation funnel retracts from ground
> 5:28:02 - tornado disappears from sight due to a microburst sweeping down
in
> front of it
>
> Therefore, the tornado may still have been there after this time, it is
just
> that they couldn't see it due to the microburst.
>
> Tonight, they are at Mudgee after watching the aforementioned storm from
> Max's email in the Hunter for a while, going through video footage. The
next
> few days look like they are going to go off big time in central eastern
NSW,
> with conditions just getting better and better towards the end of the
week.
> The only thing I was worried about was PBL moisture but this appears to no
> longer be a worry as afternoon soundings showed today a semi-deep layer of
> decent DPs, and the DP at Mudgee is currently 19C.
>
> The potential is there for an outbreak of severe storms over the next 48
> hours...
>
> Matt
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From: "Michael Thompson" <michaelt at ozemail.com.au>
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Subject: aus-wx: Back from the TDU2K chase
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 21:15:08 +1100
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Got back from a weeks chasing yesterday ( Sat 2nd ). The only bust day was
the return day !

A quick summary - a longer report to come when the photos come back.

Day 1 Saturday 25th - Home to Coonabarabran

Encountered weak storms in Tambar Springs area - noted stronger storms at
sunset in Narrabri area.

Day 2 Sunday 26th -Coonabarabran to Narrabri

Several mutlicells encountered near Tambar Springs, Premer (  house unroofed
later that day ), rainfoot near Curlewis, another  near Mullaley with some
nice CG's.

Day 3 Monday 27th - Narrabri to Glen Innes

Severe microbust at Glen Innes. Lightning so close that sparks fell from
power lines to road just in front of car.

Day 4 Tuesday 28th - Glen Innes to Gunnedah.

Severe microburst near Mullaley - horizontal rain for 10 mins. Followed
storm onto dirt road, saw rainfoots extending 2-5km from rain shaft.

Day 5 Wednesday 29th - Gunnedah to Gunnedah

Best Day !! Followed persistent line of multicells ( 8-10 seperate storms,
not a squall line  ) from Quirindi to Gunnedah. Severe microburst at
Gunnedah with hail, damage to 2 houses, many rainfoots for the day.
Lightning show from 6.30pm to 9pm.

Day 6 Thursday 30th - Gunnedah to Gunnedah

Weak multicells encountered near Gunnedah and Mullaley. Some CG's from last
storm with lovely sunset.

Day 7 Friday 1st - Gunnedah to Hastings Point ( near Tweed Heads )

Had to work hard today. Got within 20kms of severe monster near Lismore,
some nice pictures. Hooked onto a weak storm at sunset near Pottsville. Some
nice CG's in dark and possible small hail.

Michael



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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 20:59:55 +1000
From: Matt Smith <tornado at bigpond.net.au>
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Hi everyone !

I am also back from TDU, but it is not over yet! Just come home for a
day or 3 during this quiet period hoping for some good action later this
week, we will see what happens.
I hope everyone has had some good storms the last few weeks, I know
there were many opportunities for people to chase, so I hope everyone
got out and about at some stage!
Photos/Reports and all the rest will be up in a few weeks.

Matthew Smith
http://www.sydneystormchasers.com
ASWA Committee Member
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From: "Ben Quinn" <benquinn at optushome.com.au>
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Subject: aus-wx: Darwin Waterspouts
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:16:43 +1000
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Hi Everyone,

Every chasers dream came true for Jason Rainforest and Jacob Gray today -
they photographed around 20 waterspouts or funnels, west of Darwin near
Mandorah Peninsula.  Since Jason is not on this list, i am posting on his
behalf.

Some were over water, others may have crossed over onto land.  Most lasted
around 2 minutes, before contracting into the base, only to be replaced by
another.

They were all photographed between 4 and 4:30pm Darwin time - i don't
suppose anyone has any radar around this time?

I have uploaded a couple of pics of one of the waterspouts - they were taken
about 20 seconds apart, using around 300mm of zoom in very high humidity, so
the quality is not the best, but it is obviously a waterspout

http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/darwin_nader.jpg
http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/darwin_nader2.jpg

These are in a temporary directory (all files in /ben/ are temporary
actually), so please don't link to them yet.  These and many many more will
be added to the TD2kNT section sometime tomorrow.

I have also uploaded the 23z Darwin sounding

http://bsch.simplenet.com/ben/sounding.gif




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