hi gang
an excellent couple of days.
Wed 25 March1530 hrs EDT yesterday afternoon got down to the back of Camden ~ 5km SW of Camden, nice hilltop spot.
The cell was another 5km W to SW of me. The storm went through several cycles of intensifying and dying off
only to reintensify again. Thia was observable in 2 ways ....
1) a good base forming, dissapating and reforming and
2) with each reform the lightning intensified significantly
the lightning was pretty contineous for the ~ 1.5 hrs I sat and observed the storm. There was a great number
of branching CG's... really nice!
The other interesting thing was that the storm didnt really move very far till near the end when it started coming
overhead and just got to Camden before it died out.
Later in the evening, went down to the wharf at the end of the street and watched the storms out to the west.
some really nice crawlers seen and videoed, many of them making it to overhead of home.
Saw the Penrith cell split, and the the SE bound cell had a period of intensity with many good CG's and crawlers.
Thur 26 March Back down to the wharf near home at 1600EDT ... its become one of my fave storm viewing sites...
watched the cell coming in from the SW and a increasingly better looking base. Most of the lightning was
CG's mainly single track single and strobe flashes. And compared to yesterday only a few branching CG's
The base came directly overhead of my position. The lightning barrage came to an abrupt end with a
cracking CG just out onto the river ~ 100m from me.
The ceasation of the lightning was followed by ~ 10 mins of wind and torrential rain before the sun returned
cheers
Dave N