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Severe Weather Discussion => Australian Severe Storms, Weather Events and Storm Chasing => Topic started by: John Allen on 22 November 2006, 04:12:57 PM
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Looking over NW Australia atm, you can see intense concerntration of lightning under the system, with a large circular anvil shield. Havent got my measuring tape out to check if its legal size *giggles*, but definitely an interesting feature.
See satellite images below
Formed on evening, from thunderstorms, and will probably last 6 hours. We get about 20 a year for the Australia region.
NB: Tropical Cyclone moving SE through Fiji visible on RH edge of IR sat.
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Hi John,
Yes I guess we can talk further about the definitions of mesoscale convective system in the technical discussion thread but yes there is no doubt about this being a Mesoscale Convective System MCS. The much rarer feature is its cousin - the MCC or Mesoscale Convective Complex.
But getting back on track, it looked quite good in the setting sun on visible imagery - once again we hope Michael can place it online. It was quite a coincidence that Paul Graham and I discussed that region for providing the focus of strong activity given the high CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy) environment.
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
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Here you go:
IR Loop 06 to 18z
http://australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/2006/satpics/20061121loop.gif
1km VIS 06z to 09z
(http://australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/2006/satpics/2006112106.jpg)
(http://australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/2006/satpics/2006112107.jpg)
(http://australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/2006/satpics/2006112108.jpg)
(http://australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/2006/satpics/2006112109.jpg)
MB