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001 "tony middleton" [anvil_industries at hotmail.co  finally
002 MSC [cadence at rubix.net.au]                     Melbourne Storm Chasers site update
003 "Lyle Pakula" [remote at leski.com.au]            BoM to be privatised?
004 "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com]                Another Dry Warm Month
005 "David Croan" [wxbustchase at hotmail.com]        Melbourne Storm Chasers site update
006 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]   finally
007 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]           Next ASWA meeting -  new venue

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001
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From: "tony middleton" [anvil_industries at hotmail.com]
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Subject: aus-wx: finally
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 06:31:23 EST
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I've finally got a report up for the 16.4.2000 here in South Gippsland.Vic.
http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/bigman/cells16.4.2000.htm
A very unseasonally warm night here(sat. night)with a min. of 20.4,until the 
front hit at approximately 5:45am which has caused the temp.to drop 4 deg.c 
in not time at all.

LATER......

T.Middleton.
http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/bigman/
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002
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:17:10 +1000
From: MSC [cadence at rubix.net.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: Melbourne Storm Chasers site update
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A few updates to the site for those of you lucky enough to be away for
the Easter loooong break and miss the last posting......

http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/

: there are 2 reports from 16th April (look for the 'New' at the bottom
of the report section).  Check out Tony Middleton's report!! (that's the
one on the RHS)
: the April Forecast, Outlook, Discussion & Report page has been very
active over the last month & the May page is ready to go.  If you'd like
to put something up on this page, please email me at
cadence at rubix.net.au. 
: there will be a BIIIG report on the ThunderDownUnder99 chase last year
courtesy of Andrew McDonald ....soon
: we are negotiating a new inclusion to the site (something I doubt
anyone has ever thought of before - but this may take some time) - I
just want to keep you drooling till we do 

Lots of good storms to those of you coming into your season...so that we
may cure our SDS out of season....

--------------------------------
Jane ONeill
cadence at rubix.net.au

Melbourne Storm Chasers
http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence

ASWA - Victoria
http://www.severeweather.asn.au

"..thinking outside the square"

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003
From: "Lyle Pakula" [remote at leski.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: BoM to be privatised?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:09:23 +1000
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Hi,

I worked at the CSIRO for a little while and while I was there, they were
starting to exercise the new agremenets on outsourcing. It was totally
confined to the IT maintaininece section - ie network admin etc. The science
was left for the scientists, atleast in the division I was in. Funny enough
though, the people who were 'meant' to be outsourced were simply hired by
the external company - so no changes were really seen. However, this was
only the first phase and many of my collegues were concerned that managment
might change and make an already difficult situation worse - not sure if
this has taken effect yet.

Cheers,
Lyle

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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Thompson [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com]
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: aus-wx: BoM to be privatised?


> The outsourcing of IT is something the government is dead keen on. With
> scientific departments like BOM and CSIRO I do not think the government
has
> any idea what that means. Do you outsource say the development and support
> of scientific models ?
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Blair Trewin 
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, 28 April 2000 11:38
> Subject: Re: aus-wx: BoM to be privatised?
>
>
> > >
> > > Can anyone confirm this?  I heard the BoM and some other government
> > > deparments such as the CSIRO are to be privatised - as was the case
for
> the
> > > NZ Met Office...
> > > - Paul G.
> >
> > I've heard nothing along these lines.
> >
> > What this might have been caught up in could be either (a) the
> > government was trying to get CSIRO to sell and lease-back its real
> > estate (which wouldn't affect the Bureau, who already do this) or (b)
> > the outsourcing of IT functions (got fought off last time but wouldn't
> > be surprised if someone has another go).
> >
> > I'd be very surprised if a wholesale privatisation occurred as long
> > as either the Nationals or Labor had a role in government (which in
> > effect means permanently under the present system), much as I'm
> > sure the more hairy-chested ideologues in the Liberal Party would
> > like to try it (as I recall, something along those lines was part
> > of the late and unlamented Fightback in 1993).
> >
> > By the way, it's more accurate to describe the NZ situation as
> > 'commercialised' rather than privatised - it operates on a fully
> > commercial basis but is still 100% government owned. The previous
> > NZ government was looking at selling it (rumour has it that a US
> > company was interested at a fire-sale price), but that was stopped
> > with the change in government late last year.
> >
> > Blair Trewin
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004
From: "Dane Newman" [dpn at bigpond.com]
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Subject: aus-wx: Another Dry Warm Month
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:39:37 +1000
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Hi all, despite some rain today 6.2mm to 9am and another 10mm up to 3pm
(which counts towards May's total) it was another dry month here in Kilsyth
in outer eastern Melbourne. It was the third month in a row with below
average rainfall and the fourth April in a row with below average rainfall.
My observations are summarized below averages and dates in brackets.
Average Maximum 21.7c  ( 20.0c)
Average Minimum     9.6c  (10.1c)
Warmest Day          27.9c   (11th)
Coldest   Day           14.4c  (30th)
        Warmest Night          15.1c (29th)
Coldest   Night             2.4c (25th)
Rainfall                     43.6mm ( 74.1mm)
Year to date           192.6mm (253.5mm)
Days of Thunder      1 (16th)
Days of  Hail             1 ( 16th)
Days of Fog              2
Looks like this could be the fourth dry year in a row here, no wonder
Melbournes water catchments which were full 3 years ago are now less than
half full.                     Dane Newman.


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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:39:05 EST
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Hi all,

From: MSC [cadence at rubix.net.au]

>A few updates to the site for those of you lucky enough to be away for
>the Easter loooong break and miss the last posting......
>
>http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/
>
>: there are 2 reports from 16th April (look for the 'New' at the bottom
>of the report section).  Check out Tony Middleton's report!! (that's the
>one on the RHS)
[snip]

Excellent report Tony and MSC - the gustfront pics are just superb, among 
the best I have seen.


David
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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: finally
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 21:23:33 +1000
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Nice pictures Tony. It sure looks dry in your part of the country though.

I like the pic of the storms over Bass Strait.

Michael


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From: tony middleton [anvil_industries at hotmail.com]
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Sent: Sunday, 30 April 2000 21:31
Subject: aus-wx: finally


> I've finally got a report up for the 16.4.2000 here in South
Gippsland.Vic.
> http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/bigman/cells16.4.2000.htm
> A very unseasonally warm night here(sat. night)with a min. of 20.4,until
the
> front hit at approximately 5:45am which has caused the temp.to drop 4
deg.c
> in not time at all.
>
> LATER......
>
> T.Middleton.
> http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/bigman/
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 21:34:37 +1000
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From: Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: Next ASWA meeting -  new venue
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The next NSW ASWA meeting will be held on Saturday 13th May at Weather 21, 
which is situated at:
Location address
7 West St
North Sydney. Parking available on the streets.
Time: 6:30pm.

This venue seemed to be popular for most that attended when the AMOS 
Weatherwatch group hosted it there. This is now going to be our new venue.

I have approached one of our members to talk about lightning photography at 
the next meeting but I will confirm this next time I post.

Just note the date in your diary and I hope this will make for even better 
future meetings. I would like to to thank Mark Hardy and  Weather 21 for 
allowing ASWA the opportunity to host our meetings at such a suitable 
venue. Upon that point, I would like to personally thank on behalf of ASWA 
Mario Orazem for the use of his house as a venue in the past several months.

Jimmy Deguara
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