Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Since your past post, there has been more flooding. The events you refer to were extraordinary and follow flooding in February. Now another flood event! And in all this Victoria continues deep into drought. I guess such contrasts are not uncommon in Australia but this drought in Victoria has been long lived with few short breaks.
The work you did on the tropical cyclone maps and since then the tropical cyclones main web page has added fresh looks and ideas on there well worth investigating. Well done on all you have done and I understand the immense amount work that goes into such projects.
Finally, I guess we are looking at the last month for Imelda’s pregancy and weekly visits to the hospital for the usual check ups. The scans at least show nothing abnormal and the weights are to be expected. Life will change with that birth and the added responsibility that comes with it!
Haven’t much chasing lately. The last chase was when I got this lightning shot across the road:
Jimmy
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Tuesday 30th December could not have turned out much better than it did. A classic supercell evolved between Casino and Lismore before tracking over the eastern parts of Lismore, my place at McLeans Ridges then off the coast north of Byron Bay. The structure was incredible. CAPE was calculated at 4000 from the Casino obs of 35/21 at 3pm. No wonder updrafts were like a nuclear bomb in appearance. Some very large hail to 7cm diameter fell at Lismore Heights and Goonellabah with stones to about 4cm at my place. The thing that struck me the most watching the storm develop from the first congestus of the day to a massive supercell was the very obvious base rotation – certainly have not seen anything as quick as that around here. Not surprisingly, while on chase we saw two very well defined mid-level funnels and another person photographed one under the meso.
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