Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 06:57:25 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius 
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Subject: Re: aussie-weather: Brisbane Storms
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I'm glad you got something James!  We had practically nothing over here
on the east side, at about 10:45 we got our closest lightning strike of
about 2.4km away and the wind went from calm to about B2(That's Force 2
on the Beaufort Scale)...then everything just died!  Some drizzle and
light rain occurred through most of the night, we received 11.2mm.  I
was certainly hoping for a lot more!  But I think I just wasted about
2hrs of study time while waiting for these storms.  Although out west,
Longreach had gusts of 90km/h and other centres had gusts between 40 and
50kts!  At the height of the activity, these storms were producing 205
lightning strikes in 5mins!  (Or as I like to say, 41spm, )  Here is what the BoM's weather notes were at 5:35am:
NOTES ON THE WEATHER FOR QUEENSLAND
BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY, BRISBANE
Issued at  5.35 am on  Tuesday , 15/09/98

SUMMARY:

RECENT EVENTS
 (1) IN QUEENSLAND

 (2) RAINFALL SUMMARY
In the hours to 3am Tuesday a band of thunderstorms moved over the SE
parts. Mother nature put on a good lightning show along with some
gusty winds.  Rainfall reports include Coolangatta 27mm, Nambour
27mm, Amberly 21mm, Cape Moreton 21mm, Maroochydore 18 and Toowoomba
16mm.

Severe weather warnings were in place for the entire SE QLD district
area from Maryborough to Coolongatta, but the main storm activity was
between Redcliffe and the Sunshine Coast.

This seems to have been a similar pattern into last years emerging storm
season, as in most storms originally formed to the north of us, and then
as summer approached the storms began to form slightly south of us.
This is just my opinion, does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Apparently a few people on the radio had very heavy rain last night, I
might ask a few friends today, if anything really interesting happens
I'll post it up!

As James said, our chance of more storms isn't for about a week at the
moment, 7-day forecast goes for fine right through.  And unfortunately,
*technically* Brisbane has had it's September qutioa of thunderstorms,
we have had 3 thunderstorms, September average (according to the Wonders
of the Weather) is 2.3 thunderstorms.  But hopefully we will get some
more later on this month!  I don't really feel I've had a "true"
thunderstorm since August!  Some long range forecasters are forecasting
some extra severe storm activity in October, so it will be interesting
to see what happens!

Cheers!
Anthony


James C wrote:

>  Hi all....its 11.15pm We just got the predicted "squally
> thunderstorm" about 45mins ago.  Light rain actually started here at
> about 9pm, with distant lightning from 9.30 or so and it increased
> markedly about 10.10.  Very few CG's occurred here, while they
> occurred more frequently around the Sunshine Coast.  At about 10.30 or
> so, the storm hit with wind gusts here at about 60-70km/h and heavy
> rain.  There was only one good period of wild weather of about 5mins.
> Now at 11.23, steady rain is falling with the occasional rumble of
> distant thunder.  We got about 15mm with the storm but all the figures
> will come after 9am tomorrow. I was disappointed, but it was ok.  The
> video I took was pretty good - especially during the period of gales
> and heavy rain. Now, a week of boring weather and perhaps
> Sunday/Monday is our next chance of a storm if anything. See ya
> Jameswww.ecn.net.au/jcstorm/bristorm.html

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:57:47 +1000 (EST)
From: Paul Graham 
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> The AVN really moves this next trough through, and it's very
> vertically stacked with the 300hPa, 500hPa and 500/1000 thickness
> troughs all aligned through about Sydney at 10am tomorrow.

I noticed my aneroid barometer had fallen to about 999Hpa at about 9:30
this morning.  Since then it has risen about 3Hpa to 1002Hpa at 9:55. 

- Paul.

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:38:37 +1000 (EST)
From: Paul Graham 
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For those who don't know, in preparation for the Sydney Olympics, the
Bureau of Meteorology will allow people to gain access to weather data
(from today) for a 2 week period that would normally be available only by
subscription. Try the address:

http://www.bom.gov.au/reguser/by_user/bomw2000/test98.htm

The username is:  'bomw2000' and the password: 'test'

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:42:38 +0800
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From: Jacob 
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Just a notice to all the newcomers to the list,

Some of us meet each Wednesday night on IRC for live Australian weather
discussion, if your interested in joining us, you need the mIRC client
which you can download at:

http://www.mirc.co.uk/

We are based on the IRC Undernet network and our meetings are on the
#Weather channel on Wednesday nights at 9pm EST (7pm WST, 8:30pm CST, 11am
GMT).

If you want any more information on how to get on the IRC Undernet please
email me.

To the current weather, all the interesting weather has been over east
lately, here in Perth right now its fine with a temp of 21C, with 22C
forecast tomorrow. A cold front is expected to produce showers and windy
conditions here on Thursday.

Jacob