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001 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]     November 24 shelf cloud pictures
002 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   Snow stories
003 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   rain last night 24-25 feb
004 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   today
005 "Terry Bishop" [dymprog at mpx.com.au]            Orange Weather
006 Dane Newman [dpn at bigpond.com]                  Snow story
007 Chris Maunder [cmaunder at dynamite.com.au]       Snow story
008 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]     Snow story
009 "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au]           Survey
010 "McDonald" [mcdonald at one.net.au]               Melbourne Weather Update

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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:45:18 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]
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Hi all,

I've had a few people asking me for pictures of the November 24 shelf
cloud in Noosa last year, I've uploaded them to  
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cove/1068/nov24.html The good
quality scans are from James's scanner, the crappy ones are from my
scanner.  I've scanned the entire sequence of them, and you can see the
gustnado more clearly now.

I have had previous problems with people copying pictures without
permission in the past...but I guess there's nothing I can do about it.

Anthony

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:07:20 -0800
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Thanks for the story Chris,

I like it.

Lindsay

Chris Maunder wrote:
> 
> I remember chasing a huge Cu from Just past Thredbo to Canberra in
> '97. We were about 20mins behind it and every town we went through
> was covered in melting slush. Went through Coom at about 5:30pm
> and the coutry side was white. Finally caught up to the storm
> just outside of canberra, and drove through the densest blizzard
> I've ever driven through. All the way into the center of Canberra
> it was snowing, and next morning was just spectacular in the southern
> suburbs.

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:14:26 -0800
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Blackheath, at my station, has had 135mm for the month up until 1:30 on
friday 26/2
We haven't had the big dumps like you described. Some short heavy falls
for a few minutes but more generally moderate falls for longer periods
over the month.


Keith Barnett wrote:
> 
> And just for the record..60.6 to 6am today at North Seven Hills, of which 48.0
> fell in 4 hours, less if you count the brief fine breaks. That probably means
> rainfall up to 25mm/hr. Brief thunderstorms about 11pm mainly to the east,
> nothing directly overhead. The drought index is down to less than 10, so after
> more than 12 months zero approaches, (and out will come the lawnmower).
> Total rain this month 131mm. (Spare a thought for Berowra..117mm  to 9am
> today....)
> The Bureau suggests another low will form near New Caledonia in a few days..so
> look out next week??

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:21:06 -0800
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Howdy Nandina,

Sounds interesting re you fam hist notes. :-) Yes, I have been published
but my main work - first novel, "Whispers" - is just about finished its
final edit (my partner is reading it, she's a high school trained
english teacher as well as a conservatorium trained music teacher) so I
am pretty nervous about sending it off. Considering approaching an agent
or maybe doing the Vogel Award thing before I am too old to qaulify for
it. You have to be under 35 for that one and I'm 33.

Throw your questions at me, maybe do it via my personal email if it
bores others.


Cheers,
Lindsay

Nandina Morris wrote:
> 
> Hey Lindsay - my fam hist anecdotes are going into a series of kids stories.  Seems like we share a couple of interests.  Good on you.  Been published?  I haven't tried yet - but when the time comes would appreciate a bit of how to and who to advice.

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From: "Terry Bishop" [dymprog at mpx.com.au]
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:08:50 +1100
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Hi All,

Fine & sunny once again. A total of only 20.2mm of rain. Not near enough for
the lawn and gardens. No great storm cells to report. Only boring old
drizzle.

At 09.00am 16C, 45%, 1017, E  at  5Knots.



 Terry.

mailto:dymprog at mpx.com.au

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From: Dane Newman [dpn at bigpond.com]
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Subject: aus-wx: Snow story
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:21:46 +1100
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Hi Lindsay, when I lived in Canberra many years ago, there were
several good snow falls. I think the excitement of these events
sparked my interest in weather. The best year i think was 1960
when it snowed about 7 times. on two of these occasions it covered
the ground. The first time i woke up looked out the window the sky
was clear but the ground was white. about 1 inch fell officially,
not much but enough to transform every thing outside. i remember
throughing snow balls at school and how excited we all were I was
8 years old then. About 3 weeks later it snowed overnight again
1- 2 inches this time, we were again throughing Snowballs at school
and then it stated snowing again (heavily) big flakes as big as a
twenty cent piece came down  for about the next 45 minutes they
then tirned to heavy rain and washed the snow away. Dane  

-----Original Message-----
Does anyone have any good snow stories outside the Aussie Alps?
I'm trying to get some good ones together. Blue Mountains stories in
particular are my go but any outside this area are fine too. I'm looking
for good snow stories for my current novel.

Taa,

Lindsay

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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:30:53 +1100
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In 1987 it snowed in canberra enough to cover everything with about
an inch of snow. I was in college at the time and missed my first 2 
lectures becuase of all out snow-ball wars. It was SO much fun! All
melted by about 10am though.

At 14:21 27/02/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi Lindsay, when I lived in Canberra many years ago, there were several
good snow falls. I think the excitement of these events sparked my interest
in weather. The best year i think was 1960 when it snowed about 7 times. on
two of these occasions it covered the ground. The first time i woke up
looked out the window the sky was clear but the ground was white. about 1
inch fell officially, not much but enough to transform every thing outside.
i remember throughing snow balls at school and how excited we all were I
was 8 years old then. About 3 weeks later it snowed overnight again 1- 2
inches this time, we were again throughing Snowballs at school and then it
stated snowing again (heavily) big flakes as big as a twenty cent piece
came down  for about the next 45 minutes they then tirned to heavy rain and
washed the snow away. Dane  

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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:38:12 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]
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Hi Chris and all,

I believe it was October 1987, (well, that's what I have written down
here) I've scanned a few photo's that we took of the snow when we used
to live in Canberra.  Forgive the old camera quality...

they are at:

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cove/1068/snow1.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cove/1068/snow2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cove/1068/snow3.jpg

Anthony

Chris Maunder wrote:
> 
> In 1987 it snowed in canberra enough to cover everything with about
> an inch of snow. I was in college at the time and missed my first 2
> lectures becuase of all out snow-ball wars. It was SO much fun! All
> melted by about 10am though.
> 
> At 14:21 27/02/99 +1100, you wrote:

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From: "Jane ONeill" [cadence at rubix.net.au]
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Checking out all of the stories on snow....hands up the 3 poeple on the list
who didn't live in Canberra at some stage!!! 

I lived there from '63 - '75 then Queanbeyan from '76 - '80 and then '84 -
'90 (and no I'm not going back again).

Everyone I talk to seems to have spent some time there....

I remember snow in July or August 1966 - enough that you could snowboard
down our street in Yarralumla (had they invented snowboards then?)- and who
was in bed with the mumps??? :(  I've also got photos of the dogs playing in
snow in the backyard in Queanbeyan in '86 or'87 in October.  Used to drive
down to Tidbinbilla if there was anything vaguely resembling a cloud that
might have had snow in it - used to see a LOT of kangaroos but never much
snow.

Remeber that if it snowed in Orange or Bathurst Canberra's chance of getting
snow dropped to ZERO.  Anyone know why that is?

Jane
Bayswater, Melbourne

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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:52:44 +1100
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Hi All,

I've been a bit quiet over the last two weeks for two reasons.  I've been
on holidays (again) and the other reason being that I have to pay for the 
hours I went over our monthly access (12 so far  at  $2.95 p.h.).

My two trips away proved very fruitful in terms of weather though.  


Mornington Peninsula - 16th - 18th Feb.

Thursday (18th of Feb) I saw some great rotation (possibly a wall cloud) in
a cold air cell on the Morningto Peninsula - Merricks to be exact.  


Wye River - 22st - 26th Feb.

Tuesday (23rd Feb) the change came through early in the morning with a bit
of light rain.  By afternoon it was warming up a bit and some sunshine b/w
2 and 4pm made things get interesting.  Small cell with a bit of lightning
passed 10km to my E.  Within 20 minutes of that a second cell hit us
directly.  I didn't see or hear it coming (i was too busy trying to win an
intense game of 500) but when it hit we knew about it.  Rain was light at
first but big drops (50c coin size) and then in just poured.  Visibility
was down to about 25m and this lasted for about 5 mins.  Then it started
hailing (yes Jimmy - HAIL!!!!) although only small pea-size hail.  It was
enough to cover the balcony.  Then the rain continued for another 10 mins
or so after that.  I didn't notice any wind though.  There may have been
some but the card game was so intense that i didn't take too much time out
to check.  There was definitely lightning though with 2 or 3 hitting pretty
close (within 3km).

Overall it has been an interesting four months holiday (uni student -
hehehe) and as I predicted things are getting interesting
Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday just as I go back to uni (although I managed to
get Wednesdays and Thursdays off this semester).  

I have now had 9 thunderdays (i think) for this year if you include two
possibly three while i've been away at the beach with hopefully another two
or three this week.

Chris Gribben - good to hear your car and computer are fixed - you'll need
them this week I hope.


Andrew McDonald.

P.S.  For anyone who wishes to know I am studying Accountancy at RMIT
(city).