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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
It seems there is a hint of thunderstorms beginning to be in the picture from the 22nd October over eastern NSW and lingering for some time. Obviously this depends on moisture availability. GFS has been very unreliable with predictions of moisture particularly inland around the Central West this season as with other seasons. The coastal areas are struggling with moisture but nowhere near as serious. This means Sydney and further north to the mid-north coast are in for a chance of storms over the coming days.
Meanwhile, bushfires continue to threaten communities over northern NSW and Queensland. I am certainly surprised to see Rockhampton during October getting serious fire behaviour. Personally, I have yet to see bushfires mentioned in the news so far north into the tropics. At least though the dust storms have eased for the time being.
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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