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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Bushfires and extreme heat have surprisingly returned. It certainly amazes me how low temperatures over western Queensland a week ago and also parts of the Northern Territory have once again allowed for the heat trough and ridge to set in extending to coastal NSW once again. Furthmore, the wet season has barely made any impact on the Northern Territory or over most parts of northern Australia for that matter! The latest models consistently show extreme heat covering at least a quarter of the continent over the interior. Basically, this excessive heat must give way to an extensive monsoonal trough and ample rainfall as well as an extensive tropical cyclone season.
Jimmy
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Michael,
As the title says, I am astounded that we have lost whole towns and literally hundreds of homes in this disaster! 
I am shell shocked – and there seems to be more bad news on the way. I have heard information that suggests the toll could top 300 with another town just being discovered. At this time, the toll stands at 181 dead and many injured. A scene of chaos people attempting to escape the inferno. I have never seen a pyrocumulonimbus as massive as this one above the fire plumes on this devastating day.
Amongst all of this confusion, there are floods and disaster in far north Queensland in Ingham who is expecting a third flood peak, and then I got the hailstorm yesterday thanks to you and your quick thinking! I tell you I had to turn around very quickly to do this and that is what allowed me to get the hailstorm. Here is a couple of images of the hailstones:
Jimmy
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Hi Jimmy – the bushfire weather on Saturday was quite extraordinary and hopefully something we won’t see again for a long time. The earlier focus certainly was on the expectations of extreme heat and all-time record temperatures though that soon changed to the dangerous situation later in the afternoon. I monitored events closely and sent public alerts for www.ewn.com.au. The information on the VIC Country Fire Authority website is very good, though in these extreme situations that authority should be issuing the alerts. It’s a shame more government organisations have not taken up the offer to use the Early Warning Network for free over the past year. Maybe this event will change that. The same applies for major flooding – local SES and councils should be issuing the flood alerts as they know exactly the people in danger.
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