Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
The Australian region has been active this week with three named tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclone Neville formed off the far north Queensland coast early on the 20th but was short lived: barely 12 hours. JTWC did not even issue a warning for it.
On the same day tropical cyclone Magda developed off the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It intensified into a category two system before impacting the coastline northeast of Broome on 22nd January.
And tropical cyclone Olga has formed this morning off the far north Queensland coast. Warnings are in place from Cooktown to Cardwell. It may be a category two cyclone at landfall.
More information here:
http://www.australiasevereweather.com/forum/tropical-cyclones-typhoons-hurricanes-and-tropical-thunderstorms-worldwide/
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
As two tropical cyclone warnings are issued up north – Tropical Cyclone Magda and now ex-tropical cyclone Neville – in contrast heat waves and scorching the south of the continent – Sydney’s west experiencing 3 consecutive days of 40C or higher temperatures. Lucky the recent rains have made the forests and fields green again that bushfires are not a major threat.
And then of course snow fell during a brief cold snap that passed over southern Australia namely Victoria and southern NSW producing snow over the highlands of the Snowy Mountains. What a month. Now back to the 40C heat!
Incidently, following the two severe storm events prior to Christmas including the Singleton hailstorm, early January was an active period for severe thunderstorms with a few explosive thunderstorm events intercepted.
Jimmy
Explosive updraft and overshooting top lower Blue Mountains January 5th 2010Base with wall cloud January 5th 2010
Deep convection - this severe pulse storm kept rising January 10th 2010
Explosive updrafts lower Hunter Valley from outflow of Putty pulse storm January 10th 2010
Base of exploding storm headed for Jerrys Plains January 10th 2010
- Surprise supercell developing in deep layer shear January 14th 2010
Wall cloud under severe supercell near Walcha - January 14th 2010
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Tags: 40c, Blue Mountains, Cold snap, Consecutive Days, Convection, Hailstorm, Heat Waves, Hunter Valley, Jerrys Plains, Lower Hunter Valley, Magda, Neville, Outflow, Pulse Storm, Severe Thunderstorms, Singleton, Snowy Mountains, Southern Australia, Southern Nsw, Storm Events, Thunderstorm, Tropical Cyclone Warnings, Updraft, Updrafts, Walcha, wall cloud
Monday, December 14th, 2009
Tropical Cyclone Laurence was named by the Darwin BoM yesterday (13th Dec) – the first TC in the Australian region for the 2009/2010 season. Warnings were issued in the 48 hours prior to its naming as the tropical low passed over the Top End and Darwin with damaging winds and flooding.
It’s not the only TC at present. There are an amazing FOUR tropical cyclones active in the southern hemisphere. Mick near Fiji, Laurence, Cleo which regenerated east of Madagascar and an unnamed system in the mid South Indian Ocean. More details here:
http://australiasevereweather.com/cyclones/
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Tags: Bom, Cleo, Darwin, Fiji, Madagascar, Mid South, South Indian Ocean, Southern Hemisphere, Tc, Tropical Cyclone, tropical cyclone laurence, Tropical Cyclones
