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Severe Weather Discussion => Australian Severe Storms, Weather Events and Storm Chasing => Topic started by: Colin Maitland on 09 June 2009, 10:50:03 AM
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just checking latest forecast and it looks like VIC, NSW and QLD are in for a cold blast at the beginning of the week. NSW looks like it will cop the brunt of it on Tuesday. BOM have issued a graziers alert for NSW
NSW Sheep Graziers Warning
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
New South Wales
Issued at 1531 on Monday the 8th of June 2009
Graziers are advised of COLD, WET and WINDY weather in the
following districts
CENTRAL TABLELANDS
SOUTHERN TABLELANDS
SOUTH WEST SLOPES
Currently a cold westerly airstream lies over southern NSW. An active cold front
is expected to cross southeastern NSW late Tuesday with a strong, very cold
southwest airstream to follow for Wednesday. Showers will increase with the
passage of the front and snow falling to about the 1000 metres level will lower
to about 700 metres for Tuesday night and Wednesday. Winds will tend even
colder, strong and gusty southwesterly with the front and persist through most
of Wednesday.
The NSW Southern Table lands should be expecting some snow falls
Issued from BOM
SOUTHERN TABLELANDS
Refer to the Snowy Mountains Forecast [ALPS] for areas above 1200 m
Warning Summary at issue time:
A sheep graziers warning issued for Tuesday for cold, wet and windy weather.
Forecast for Monday evening
Isolated showers, tending scattered in the west. Fresh to strong westerly winds.
Forecast for Tuesday
Scattered showers in the west, tending more isolated in the east. Snowfall above 1000 metres at first, lowering down to 700 metres later. Possible isolated thunderstorms with small hail. Fresh to strong and gusty westerly winds.
Goulburn : Shower or two. Windy. Min: 3 Max: 9
Cooma : Few showers. Possible snow overnight. Min: -1 Max: 9
A few cold days ahead.
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I'm beginning to think the tipster got it wrong here - only got to 11c here today, some 3c below average - and the nights have been colder too -1 to -2 in some parts in southern VIC - and TAS is not fairing much better either with snow down to low levels expected tomorrow as well.
Maybe a small dumping of snow down here might be in the wings (allegedly it is snowing in Bayswater near the Ananconda Camping store...lol)
Big Pete
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Yes forecast for zero in western Sydney on Friday morning. And they said Wednesday with a max of 13 in the west could feel like 5 with the wind chill.
Hopefully I won't have to be on a rooftop fixing a microwave!
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Quite a significant cold change is spreading over Southeast Australia at present and it should bring snowfalls to quite low levels particularly in Tas and Vic. Should see some into the NSW Central Tablelands and possibly southern parts of the Northern Tablelands.
This is the strongest cold change since mid April - which was also the last time it snowed across the alpine regions.
EDIT - just merged earlier discussion from a general weather thread
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Noticed the NSW BOM forecast
Forecast for Wednesday
Very cold about the southern and central ranges with scattered showers and light snow to about the 600 to 700 metre level. Isolated showers over the remainder of the southeast and about the western slopes of the northern ranges
Possibility of snow flurries, maybe even a light dusting of snow at Guyra. The southern NT town of Walcha and settlement of Hanging Rock might
fair better.
Early season still, and usually late June - August is the time for the best snow on the NT.
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have been in shooters hill , black springs and oberon in central tablelands . snow showers and flurries so far but the moisture moves in around 3pm it looks like so should be good dumps overnight.
was 0.6c at shooters hill with a 50kph westerly wind
nick
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Hi,
Just got a call from Nick Moir and he suggests it began to snow heavily around 5pm at Black Springs with the possibility of good cover of approximately 10 to 15cm overnight if it continued at that rate. Nick could not stay the night this time around.
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
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Hi all,
Boy winter is really making itself known today! The temps screamed all the way to 14c at 3pm here.
Does anyone have plans for snow photography in this cold snap? All the best if you head out into it! Keep rugged up and definitely take a jumper or two lol.
Looks like the forecast has it sticking around for s few days so it's time to hunker down and throw the ol' heater on high!
Kindest regards,
Shauno
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Unfortunately I won't get the chance to get to Oberon etc in the next few days. But if it happens near a weekend I will be up there with a few 4WD mates.
Also hoping for a big dump around Barrington Tops some weekend over winter, will be up there taking photos.
I remember one winter at Gosford, where snow was being reported at Kariong. I found it hard to believe until I drove over a hill at North Gosford and the rain started sticking to the windscreen. May have been more sleet than snow and not settling, but the temperature had dropped pretty quick the 30 minutes before (this was about lunchtime).
We'll keep things on topic - but for your interest this most likely was the cold snap July 1986.
ABC currently reporting snowfalls forecast down to 600 metres over the Southern Highlands and Monaro regions on the 9pm news. As well as gale force winds in some areas.
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Hi everyone , seems like there was some good falls to the south of Bathurst , Orange and Oberon.
this is a pic as the snow started to fall consistantly around 5pm at Black Springs
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Some very good snow falls on the ski resorts over the last 2 days, here is the lastest 24 hour report as at 7.50AM 10/06/09.
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hello anyone catch prime news early this morning well my mum did and a huge surprise happened.
she said that they reported 4 to 5 cm of snow in Armidale nsw at 6:50am 11/6/2009 and she contacted her friend for one picture at least (lives in Armidale) and mum took 2 pictures of prime news for proof.
pics below bottom one from her friend
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A couple of frost pictures this morning from McLeans Ridges looking into the Eltham Valley.
(http://australiasevereweather.com/forum_images/thumbs/2009061201.jpg) (http://australiasevereweather.com/forum_images/photos/2009061201.jpg)
(http://australiasevereweather.com/forum_images/thumbs/2009061202.jpg) (http://australiasevereweather.com/forum_images/photos/2009061202.jpg)
Min temp at my place at the top of the ridge was 5.7, though it certainly looks zero or negative in the valley.
Yesterday morning (11th) the min was 5.0 but no frost was observed. There was breeze most of that night so min temps were more uniform than this morning.
The temp did a quick plummet to 8 here last night then levelled out for quite a while.
Stormboy - the report may have been 4 or 5mm not cm. The pics show only a trace of snow - which matches other reports posted elsewhere by Armidale residents.
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wooooweeee it sure is a cold one this moring Ballina AP went right down to 3.1 and my station reached 4.4 this morning very early there was a touch of frost on the ballina oval and our backyard.
More on the Armidale snow --- mums friend put a ruler into the snow until it hit the ground and measured an average of 4 CM in over 10 readings in the area. so 4CM is the total. Armidale also got to -5.2 this morning with Gyura at -5.7 a cold start to winter i must say.
Storm boy
p.s Michel you have an awesome view!!!
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Yes another frost this morning here in Schofields though not as severe as yeterday. It was definitely very white even at 8am yesterday. I have a couple of photographs this morning and may get a chance to post later.
I think we stand a good chance to crack -4C this winter if this trend continues in other words so cold so early in June. July and August often gets more severe frosts.
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
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Pretty cold in QLD. Brisbane yesterday reached a MAX of 16.5C, which for us, is quite cool, last night Brisbane airport had a min of 3.4C.
This morning ( 12/06/09) some of the SEQ min were:
Oakey -5.3C
Amberley -2.5C
Maroochydore, Sunshine Coast 1.5C
Coolongatta 2.5C
Stanthorpe -3.6C
Looks like more snow for the Alps on Monday.
happy snow hunting,
Col
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I had seen reports of -5.8c in Canberra yesterday morning, and it has been hovering around the zero mark in Mooroolbark (-1c this morning at 4am).
Feels very icy cold - good to chill the 6-pack!
About 5cm of snow did fall in Kalorama (Mt Dandenong) on Wednesday morning - provided plenty of interest for residents there.
Also, max temps here have not gone above 11c all week.
Big Pete
(with an extra shirt under an extra shirt under the work shirt and jumper) BRRRR!
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A friend who lives near Killarney Gap between Narrabri and Bingara reported some sago snow/graupel on Wednesday morning. I am not sure of the exact altitude but I would estimate this is only about 600-800m ASL. I haven't heared any reports of snow on Kaputar - conditions have mostly been clear here - but I expect Kaputar may have also had a light snow fall on Wednesday morning.
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prepare for yet another freezing night as the following towns will expect temps to drop to:
Armidale -- -4
Gyura -- -1
and some very cold conditions in the se QLD northern rivers area too with lismore expected 1 tonight and lets see if another snow falls at Armidale ay.
Storm boy
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We got down to -1.2 degrees c at 4:30am with a light frost this morning. Currently temperature is at a huge 7.9 degrees. It would probably be bearable if it weren't for the stinging breeze. It doesn't seem to matter how many layers of clothing one wears, the wind goes straight through.
There is a fantastic photo on the front page of todays Border Mail of a spider's web lightly dusted with frost.
With light rain and showers forecast for the next few days hopefully the nights won't be so cold.
I never thought I would miss the west coast SO much!!!
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Was nice and icy at 330am this morning when i left for work. There was a nice coating of ice on the neighbours cars, which could be seen glittering like diamonds in the streetlight. Unfortunately I wasn't at home on daybreak to see if there was any frost around, but according to my wife there was some in the neighbours yard. After checking my AWS records I noticed the temp got down as far as 0.3 degrees so nice and chilly. The overnight minimum are expected to remain in single figures for the next few days, but mostly between the 5-8 degree mark so no frosts again for a little while yet.
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A very cold day in the ACT today
Severe cold spell hits Canberra
Tom Saunders, Friday June 12, 2009 - 17:30 EST
Canberra shivered through one of its coldest days on record on Friday with the high reaching just four degrees by 5pm, eight below average and potentially their coldest day in 43 years.
South of the city Tuggerong was even colder, reaching only three degrees, which could be their coldest day on record although the site has only been recording since 1996.
The surprise cold snap is the result of a very cold night followed by a cloudy day.
"After dropping to minus two degrees early in the morning a persistent layer of fog and low cloud completely blocked out the sun and prevented the temperature from rising like it normally would" said weatherzone.com.au meteorologist Martin Palmer.
"But we can't confirm the coldest day in 43 years until 9am tomorrow because a meteorological day is 9am to 9am" said Palmer.
Nearby towns were also trapped under the fog with highs reaching just six at Cootamundra and Gundagai and seven at Wagga Wagga.
More cold weather is forecast during the next few days but further near record lows are unlikely.
- Weatherzone
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/severe-cold-spell-hits-canberra/12106 (http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/severe-cold-spell-hits-canberra/12106)
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Cold temperatures for 11 and 12 June 2009
Some of the coldest temperatures so far this year occurred on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 June. A few localities across New South Wales from various weather stations via Weatherzone showing the minimum and maximum temperatures have been selected as shown.
Locality Minimum temperature Maximum temperature
Albury
Thursday Minus 2C 9.6C
Friday Minus 1.3C 8 C (3 pm reading)
Armidale
Thursday Minus 5.3C 9.1C
Friday Minus 7.0C 14C (3 pm reading) (That is a 21C difference)
Bathurst
Thursday Minus 4.2C 7.8C
Friday Plus 0.3C 13 C (3 pm reading)
Cabramurra
Thursday Minus 7C 2.1C
Friday Minus 3.8C 3C (3 pm reading)
Charlottes Pass
Thursday Minus 7.6C 4C
Friday Minus 11C 4C (3 pm reading) (The difference is 15C)
Dubbo
Thursday Minus 0.9C 10.8C
Friday Minus 2.4C 14C (3 pm reading)
Glenn Innes
Thursday Minus 4C 10C
Friday Minus 3.2C 15 (3 pm reading) (That is a difference of 18.2C)
Goulburn
Thursday Minus 2C 7.2C
Friday Minus 2C 9C (3 pm reading)
Oberon
Thursday Minus 3.3C 4.5C
Friday Minus 2.3C 8C (3 pm reading)
Orange
Thursday Minus 3.2C 6.2C
Friday Minus 3.5C 10C (3 pm reading)
Tamworth
Thursday Minus 3.2C 11.8C
Friday Minus 4.4C 16C (3 pm reading)
The difference between the minimum temperature and maximum temperature in Tamworth for Friday is 20.4C.
The Daily mean Minimum temperature plot for Thursday 11/6/2009 is produced from "Water and the Land" - (Agriculture and Natural Resource Management) (Bureau of Meteorology) at http://www.bom.gov/watl/index.shtml (http://www.bom.gov/watl/index.shtml) then heading "Temperature". Various plots can be produced here for temperatures. The plot shows inland New South Wales and Victoria away from the coastal fringe experiencing cold or very cold conditions on Thursday morning.
The cold conditions extended into Southern Queensland as well. The coldest regions for Thursday morning were:-
North East Victoria and parts of Southern New South Wales where minimum temperatures fell to between minus 3C and minus 6C.
A small area in the Snowy Mountains had minimum temperatures less than Minus 6C.
Northern Tablelands of New South Wales where minimum temperatures fell to between minus 3C and minus 6C.
Much of inland New South Wales experiencing minimum temperatures of between 0C and minus 3C.
Large areas of inland Victoria experienced minimum temperatures of between 0C and minus 3C.
Concentrating on South East Australia, only the coastal fringe of New South Wales and Victoria escaped the minus temperatures.
It is also noted that parts of Eastern South Australia and Tasmania also experienced a cold Thursday morning in which minimum temperatures dropped to below 0C.
Harley Pearman
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Thanks for the updates and pictures illustrating this particular cold snap. As promised, I have finally got onto the pictures I took of the frost on June 12th 2009. This was not as spectacular as the previous morning.
(http://www.australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2009/0612jd01.jpg)
(http://www.australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2009/0612jd05.jpg)
(http://www.australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2009/0612jd10.jpg)
(http://www.australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2009/0612jd12.jpg)