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At 10pm I had Port Macquarie on 2.5c and Coff's Harbour was just above 
4c...Now, at 11pm I have Port Macquarie on 7.1c while Coff's Harbour has 
dropped to 3.7c...Does anyone know why they may be so cold so close to the 
coast?  And can they explain the rapid change in Port Mac's temperature 
between 10pm and 11pm?
- Paul G.
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:06:27 +1000
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HI.

About 30 mins ago 11.30pm, Police from Lithgow advised snowing again at
Mt Lambie and settling on side of road. Roads still opened but very
slippery. Police will be patrolling roads all night for black ice..

Dave

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:07:15 -0400
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> Good Snow pics link taken on Sunday in the Marysville- Lake Mountain
area. 
> 
>  http://snow.barratt.com.au/01.html

These are great pics!  They remind me in some ways of Steamboat Springs,
CO.

Les 


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Hi everyone,
           It's just on 12am and an extensive band of rain is located just 
off Wollongong and moving roughly NE, I think, with radar reflectivity light 
blue and up to yellow...The satellite images shows up some nice oceanic 
storm cells so I wonder if we might see some hail along the coast as these 
storms clip the coast?
- Paul G.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>STA Continues for SW WA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perth Broad Radar Loop showing lots or rain off the 
coast but moving SSE... the high is doing a good job at blocking this cold front 
:(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY <BR>WESTERN AUSTRALIAN 
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advised that there is a risk of<BR>severe thunderstorms overnight and early 
Wednesday morning. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Storms may be accompanied by hail, flash flooding 
and strong winds that could<BR>result in damage to property.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The State Emergency Service advises that people 
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face=Arial size=2>Looks like the cold air has made its way all the way over to 
the Pilbara too only 13C at Karratha Airport at 1430utc, 16.4C currently on our 
wx station was 15.4C about an hour ago.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Newman (Inland Pilbara) got down to 2C last night, 
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Les wrote, "positive vorticity advection".

Guess who lives in the NH :-)

Otherwise thanks for the good post Les..

As for weather, another 19mm at our place last night (Box Hill), making 65mm
for the outbreak, and 115mm for the month. Hopefully, this rain marks a
return to more normal rainfall after the past three years of "drought".

Cheers,

David.

                                                              
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:00:01 -0700
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Blackheath, Wednesday morning:

Hi all,

Nudging above zero this morning and gloriously sunny for the first time
in a while.
Winds still quit westerly, it seems. 

There's decent snow on the ranges out Oberon way and still a bank of
clouds out there although it seems to be breaking up a little. 


I have a question about precipitation measurement. What is the best way
to include the snowfalls we've had into my monthly rainfall? In my area
on Sunday night, I got around 9cm of snow on our lawn but curiously
further down the street (We are nestled on the leeward side of Whiteley
Park in a westerly, one of the highest points in town) I measured up to
12cm on the lawns. It seemed consistent that the further down our street
I went, there was a bit more snow. I cannot suggest how accurate my
method was using a piece of dowel but I did push the stick into the
lawns in various places over a two hundred metres distance down the
road. Was the snow further down our hill drift snow (our street drops
steeply to the east) or was the top of our street more protected because
of the stand of tall radiata pine trees and the generous hill of
Whiteley Park? I want to represent my rainfall as best I can, would
appreciate any help on this one. Laurier has already told me about his
board method for snow measurement and I need to look into that more. I
think Laurier got around 7cm but interestingly I also notice that
Laurier's rainfall, when we get easterly rain, is more than mine, to do
with his proximity to the escarpment during easterly rain maybe?

Cheers,


Lindsay Pearce
PS: My temp range during the snow fall was around -2 to 1 degrees.


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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:24:21 +1000
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Hi Phil,

The effects on the ground would be quite indirect.  Eg, strong jet will
help assist in horizontal vorticity, and possibly help in uplift through
upper level divergence/diffluence.  Or might help surpress air in
convergent/confluent regions.  But when the two jets join, generally you
can expect very cold air (ie, that similar, but not analogous to that
found in polar upper levels), under the polar jet region.  But the
interesting effect is that the sub-tropical jet itself normally forms
from the pressure gradient formed by the tropical upper level air (I use
the term tropical loosely here), the temperate upper level air.  But if
the polar and sub-tropicla jet join, you now have a pressure gradient
between tropical upper level air and polar air (agian, polar air is used
loosely).  So you can expect a much stronger jet as a result.  Such
strong jets will amplify any vorticity, and possibly help to stretch and
enhance vorticity in lower levels, as well as the possible effects from
convergence etc.  

An example of this was May 01, 1999 - while from memory the two jets
didn't quite join, but very cold air moved through, and pushed an
extremely tight pressure gradient through with a jet to 160kn.  We had
-21 to -23C temps  at  500mb.  The sfc-500mb shear max wind was about
20kn.  But that increased to 110-120kn  at  300, and peaked at 250 at 160kn
just off the coast!  There was a tornado, and possibly 2 supercells on
this day.  Not what you'd expect no doubt!  But just an example of what
the jet can do even when the storms were barely getting into the strong
jet.

In this recent joining of the jets, Brisbane achieved a jet of 170kn  at 
250mb!!!  Last light it was still running at 160kn - 170kn is the
strongest jet I've personally ever seen analysed on an Australian
sounding station.

Phil Bagust wrote:
> 
> > Normally the polar jet
> >remains further south, but has been known to occassionally "join" the
> >sub-tropical jet.
> 
> That's interesting.  What effects on the ground could/would that have?
> 
> Phil 'Paisley' Bagust
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:51:38 -0400
From: "Leslie R. Lemon" <lrlemon at compuserve.com>
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David:

> Les wrote, "positive vorticity advection".

LOL.....yes, you got it!!!   I do struggle trying to keep the SH in mind. 
Sorry.  Thanks, David for the correction!

Les

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From: Blair Trewin <blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Very Cold Coastal Temps!!
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> 
> At 10pm I had Port Macquarie on 2.5c and Coff's Harbour was just above 
> 4c...Now, at 11pm I have Port Macquarie on 7.1c while Coff's Harbour has 
> dropped to 3.7c...Does anyone know why they may be so cold so close to the 
> coast?  And can they explain the rapid change in Port Mac's temperature 
> between 10pm and 11pm?
> - Paul G.
> 

The temperature at both Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour increased
sharply during the night (at Coffs it rose from 2.0 at 0130 to 7.5 at
0230). This appears to be associated with an increase in winds (more
noticeable at Coffs), which would have broken down any low-level 
inversion that was in place. Coffs Harbour was reporting mean winds 
in the 0-5 knot range with gusts to 7 in the couple of hours up until
0130; peak gusts had increased to 12 knots by 0200 and 21 by 0300.

My guess as to why the very low temperatures nearly reached the
coast is that there was a very light offshore flow, not enough to 
break down inversions at ground level but enough to keep marine air
out. This isn't as uncommon as one might think; there are numerous
sites within a few kilometres of the coast, such as Coffs Harbour,
the old Port Macquarie site (which is within a kilometre of the ocean,
but is sheltered from it to some extent by a coastal ridge) and 
Brisbane Airport, that have recorded minima near or below zero, and
there have been some very low temperatures indeed in the near-coastal
valleys along the NSW coast - Richmond's -8.3 in 1970 is the lowest
ever recorded at an elevation below 400 metres in mainland Australia,
and Bega has had -7.

The most exceptional aspect of last night seems to be that in some 
places the cold has even affected extremely exposed coastal sites.
Cape Byron's 4.3 appears to be a all-time record low for the station
(not just for May). Aggravatingly, Yamba (for which I have 80 years
of daily records) hasn't reported today, although it did have 5.7
(0.7 above its May record) yesterday.

Blair Trewin
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From: "John Woodbridge" <jrw at pixelcom.net>
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Hi Anthony,

Further to this.  All my thermo's basically agreed to within 0.5C this
morning at sunrise (7:00am), all sitting on the overnight minimum read.  Two
are 'Sixes' type thermometers, one said 6.5C (the one I normally record),
the other 7.0C and my 200 buck electronic doodad read 7.0C (RH 51%).  So I
am confident that my yesterday recording is reasonably good.

It certainly is the first time that I can recall having a higher overnight
minimum than Coolongatta!!  And looking at the Coolangatta AWS data, we have
done it again today!

But I reckon some doubt must exist over the Amberley -1.0C recording - fair
dinkum, they must have put the thermometer on the ground and tipped a bucket
of ice over it!  Given the westerley we had, I find it hard to believe it
would have been calm at Amberley.  :)

Amberley is approx 18 Kms SW from my location at a similar elevation.

Regards.

>snip
>
>Subject: RE: aus-wx: New Brisbane Low Max Record for May?
>
>Hi Anthony,
>
>Well the forest & hills effect was in full force last night, coupled with a
>good breeze stirring things up all night.  Min at Mt. Crosby was a rather
>surprising 7.0C, some 8C warmer than Amberley's record low, around 3C
warmer
>than Brisbane AP and also warmer than both coasts!!  At 10:00pm tonight,
>there is again a good breeze and it seems a touch warmer than last night,
>currently sitting at 11.5C.
>
>I once again suspect the accuracy of my thermometer, but while rather cool
&
>breezy, it certainly did not feel anything like 0C early this morning.  I
>think the Brisbane city temp of 8C lends some credibility to the reading,
>even though we are 26K's inland from there.  Nevertheless, I will put 2
>thermo's out tonight to verify the read.
>
>John.

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From: Blair Trewin <blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: aus-wx: low maximum temperatures
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> 
> A few bits of trivia....
> Sydney's max of 13.1 today (30-5-00) was the 2nd lowest in May for 61
> years, behind only 12.9 on 7-5-1984, a very wet day.
> It was also the coldest day for any month for 4 years.
> The last 3 days of 14.2, 14.3 and 13.1 represent the first time ever
> there has  been 3 consecutive May days under 14.5.
> And a question for Blair and his data bank...
> What about record low maxes... We know of Adelaide (Sat), Canberra
> (Sun)... but what about places such as Dubbo (9 Sun 9 Mon)when as far as
> I can find out their May record is 9.9
> Also Oberon, 2 consecutive -1 maxes and 48 hrs of continous snow giving
> 30cm cover and 1 metre drifts? Not bad for that location. And Orange 2
> consecutive 1 degree maxes.... any of these records??
> 
> don W.

It will take some time to go through all of these properly. Most of
the sites I've glanced at haven't quite matched 1977, but some have,
and I expect numerous records have been set for consecutive days below
thresholds. 

Blair Trewin
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From: "John Woodbridge" <jrw at pixelcom.net>
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Hi All,

My daughter was lucky enough to get work experience with the NSW BoM in
Sydney (I would have given my eye teeth for that opportunity at 16... or
even at 45...  !!!).  Here is her comment after the 3rd day...

I hope you got my
email from here yesturday about the bureau.  Today im in observations and
forecasts is now after lunch.  Its been really good and you would really
enjoy it. Like the big charts and maps are really interesting, and its good
to know that some of this stuff is covered in Geography. Lapse Rates etc.
They can tell from this one chart everything about the temperature of the
atmosphere in levels, rising air temperature, moisture, dew point, height of
any clouds, how long they will keep rising for and really funky stuff like
that.  And i now have my heart set on being an observer on this gorgeous
little island called Willis Island north east of Cairns. It sounds perfect.
...

John.

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:18:47 +1000
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Hi John,

I phoned the BoM today at Brisbane to inquire about the Brisbane and
Amberly record May temps.  Brisbane on the 30th, and last night both
recorded 4.3C.  This is the lowest, and equal lowest on record for May
at the Brisbane AP - with the previous lowest being 4.7C.

Amberly had a much more impressive record, with it recording -1.3C on
the 30th, with the previous record being -0.3C  So a 1C drop is quite
significant!

No doubt the effect of being nestled within a rainforest has moderated
your temperatures - I took notice of this at the BBQ :)  Perhaps the
pool is now radiating heat out too? <g>  None the less, I think it is
quite a remarkable feat to still keep so warm despite the current
conditions (I do use warm loosely!)  Perhaps you might like to
experiment and place the thermometers in a few different locations to
see where the lower and higher temperatures occur to your "control
site."  You wouldn't think that the temperatures would vary much in such
a small place, but I would not be surprised if they yielded some
interesting results!

John Woodbridge wrote:
> 
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> Further to this.  All my thermo's basically agreed to within 0.5C this
> morning at sunrise (7:00am), all sitting on the overnight minimum read.  Two
> are 'Sixes' type thermometers, one said 6.5C (the one I normally record),
> the other 7.0C and my 200 buck electronic doodad read 7.0C (RH 51%).  So I
> am confident that my yesterday recording is reasonably good.
> 
> It certainly is the first time that I can recall having a higher overnight
> minimum than Coolongatta!!  And looking at the Coolangatta AWS data, we have
> done it again today!
> 
> But I reckon some doubt must exist over the Amberley -1.0C recording - fair
> dinkum, they must have put the thermometer on the ground and tipped a bucket
> of ice over it!  Given the westerley we had, I find it hard to believe it
> would have been calm at Amberley.  :)
> 
> Amberley is approx 18 Kms SW from my location at a similar elevation.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> >snip
> >
> >Subject: RE: aus-wx: New Brisbane Low Max Record for May?
> >
> >Hi Anthony,
> >
> >Well the forest & hills effect was in full force last night, coupled with a
> >good breeze stirring things up all night.  Min at Mt. Crosby was a rather
> >surprising 7.0C, some 8C warmer than Amberley's record low, around 3C
> warmer
> >than Brisbane AP and also warmer than both coasts!!  At 10:00pm tonight,
> >there is again a good breeze and it seems a touch warmer than last night,
> >currently sitting at 11.5C.
> >
> >I once again suspect the accuracy of my thermometer, but while rather cool
> &
> >breezy, it certainly did not feel anything like 0C early this morning.  I
> >think the Brisbane city temp of 8C lends some credibility to the reading,
> >even though we are 26K's inland from there.  Nevertheless, I will put 2
> >thermo's out tonight to verify the read.
> >
> >John.
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:35:49 +1000
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Hi John,

I do remember doing my work experience at the QLD BoM - I was 15 at the
time. The time slot that I wanted was unavailable - so I opted to do
work experience during my June/July holidays - I loved it!  Best part
was the severe weather section (of course).  I don't think anyone got
any lunch that day, because I wouldn't shut up with all my questions
<g>  Also showed me some nice storm footage - one of a possible tornado
with no funnel over the sunshine coast.  I also enjoyed the climate
section (and learning about meteorology).  The RFC was good - I quite
liked forecasting with the forecasters (temps only of course).  I was
also fortunate to have storms (yes, storms in June!!!)  So it was fun
watching them on 3D radar :)  (shhhh Leslie <bfg>)

The only thing that dissappointed me, was that not everyone was quite as
enthusiastic about weather as I had thought - but I managed to find a
few people who were very enthusiastic, and learnt a lot off them.

John Woodbridge wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> My daughter was lucky enough to get work experience with the NSW BoM in
> Sydney (I would have given my eye teeth for that opportunity at 16... or
> even at 45...  !!!).  Here is her comment after the 3rd day...
> 
> I hope you got my
> email from here yesturday about the bureau.  Today im in observations and
> forecasts is now after lunch.  Its been really good and you would really
> enjoy it. Like the big charts and maps are really interesting, and its good
> to know that some of this stuff is covered in Geography. Lapse Rates etc.
> They can tell from this one chart everything about the temperature of the
> atmosphere in levels, rising air temperature, moisture, dew point, height of
> any clouds, how long they will keep rising for and really funky stuff like
> that.  And i now have my heart set on being an observer on this gorgeous
> little island called Willis Island north east of Cairns. It sounds perfect.
> ...
> 
> John.
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From: Blair Trewin <blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU>
Subject: aus-wx: Records - part 1
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I've now had a chance to check max temp records for a range of stations
that I use in extreme temperature monitoring, plus a couple of others
of interest.

May maximum temperature records appear to have been set at the following
places:

Snowtown	11.4 on 27th (previous record 11.5, 19/1981)
Mildura		10.2 on 27th (10.6, 29/1963)
Kerang		8.9 on 27th (9.7, 31/1977)
Bathurst ARS	4.6 on 30th (5.1, 31/1977*)
Dubbo#		8.5 on 30th/8.9 on 29th (9.9, 31/1969)
Canberra	4.3 on 28th (6.0, 5/1949)
Wyalong		8.5 on 28th (8.6, 31/1977*)
Deniliquin	8.5 on 27th (9.3, 31/1977*)

* denotes that this includes data which is prior to the start of the
Bureau digital database
# denotes recent site change, but one which should not impact maximum
temperatures

Note that Adelaide is NOT included - this list covers 24-hour maxima
rather than 'daytime' maxima and Adelaide had warmed up from 11 during
the day on the 27th to 12.5 by 9 on the 28th. I think the same thing
happened at Mount Gambier, as their max of 9 in the database doesn't
match media reports of 6.something.

Oberon's -0.6 and -0.8 on the 29th and 30th are the 4th and 5th 
instances of subzero maxima at the sites there (and the first in May,
and the first two to be consecutive), but the site (which is now 5km
SE of the town itself) moved in 1989 to a location 100m higher; 
there was only one subzero max in 24 years at the old site, but there
have been 4 in 11 years at the new site. The record low max at the
current site is -1.1 on 12/6/1993.

I'll post later about records for consecutive days, and minima in 
Queensland and elsewhere.

Blair Trewin
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Have noticed a few of the models starting to hint at another cold
spell for SE Aust next Sunday/Monday.

Whilst not suggesting anything quite of scale of the recent cold outbreak, 
some models appear to suggest the bight high responsible for the current 
cold outbreak will will re-consolidate south of WA over  the weekend and 
have it drift east fairly slowly.

If highs in this location becomes a pattern through the winter, this could 
produce some pretty amazing snow totals over the Vic/NSW (and Tas) alpine 
regions. I am starting to be reminded of 1981 ... Hopefully this is not the 
kiss of death for the possibility of such an outcome. I actually also like 
the idea of a re-run of 1949 but I am sure that is asking way too much.

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:48:55 -0700
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G'day all,

Thought I'd post an email from a young weather mate of mine.
Looks like he is really getting into it all, he told me the other day
that he stands outside on cold cloudy nights with the torch looking for
snow! He's not the only one...

Lindsay Pearce


adam wrote:
> 
> Hello lindsay,
> 
> I hope you are finally getting some sleep.
> Anyway let me know about the southerly
> wind change which i hope will hit and bring more
> snow, It seems I am becoming obsessed about the
> weather, especially cold weather.
> I would be interested in another snow chase if you are
> able to go.  Give me a ring if there is a chance of
> any close developments with the snow.
> I won't be at tennis this week, so I will see you
> around
> 
> adam

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From: "Dane Newman" <dpn at bigpond.com>
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Subject: aus-wx: Kilsyth Monthly Summary
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:22:56 +1000
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Hi all here is the monthly summary for Kilsyth (outer eastern Melbourne
Suburbs) for May
Average Max 15.9c (16.5c)
Average Min    8.0c (  8.9c)
Warmest Day 20.7c (2nd, 10th)
Coldest   Day   7.8c ( 28th)
Warmest night   13.8c (4th)
Coldest night     0.9c (18th)
Rain                153.8mm ( 82.3mm)
Days of Thunder 2 (0.8)
Days of  Hail       2
Days of Fog        0
All observations my own using standard BOM instruments and Standard
Stevenson Screen, dates and long term averages in brackets. Dane ASWA MSC
Melbourne.

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From: Blair Trewin <blair at met.Unimelb.EDU.AU>
Subject: aus-wx: May rainfall highlights
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The May rainfall figures are now in. The main features of the map are:

- below-average (widely in the bottom 10% of recorded falls) over most
of southern WA.

- above-average in western Tas, in the top 10% along the west coast

- above-average in most of Victoria except the Wimmera and Mallee, and 
in a broad north-south band through NSW and Queensland, about 300km
wide and stretching Longreach-Charleville-Bourke-Albury

- below-average on the NSW coast south of Port Macquarie

- above-average in Arnhem Land and in the Pilbara

- near average in most other areas

As far as I can tell from the map, no major record highs were broken,
but there were scattered record lows in inland southern WA.

Highest for the month was 721mm at Mount Read in western Tasmania; a
site worth watching over the coming years - on the evidence so far I
wouldn't be surprised if it ends up having a long-term mean in the
4000-5000mm range, based on comparisons with Lake Margaret.

A couple of totals to watch from north Queensland: Topaz is up to
4866mm for the year to date (slightly behind its pace in the first 
part of 1999, when it had had 5017 on its way to an eventual total of
7019). Bellenden Ker's May figures aren't in yet, but they had had
8172mm to the end of April (2506 in February, 2823 in March, 1974
in April), which is 135 ahead of their 1999 pace (when they eventually
set an Australia record annual total).


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From: paulmoss at tpgi.com.au
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Dont know if anyone has answered this yet Paul but depends 
which AWS you are getting your data from.

If its from the airport - Local Topography and situation of the airport 
AWS sees it somewhat removed from the "warming influence" of 
the nearby sea.

Port Macquarie is actually perched on some decent clifts which all 
but block any warming breeze/air masses. 

As for the changing temp - only suggest a change in wind 
direction??

Paul.On 30 May 00, at 6:56, Paul Graham wrote:

> At 10pm I had Port Macquarie on 2.5c and Coff's Harbour was just above
> 4c...Now, at 11pm I have Port Macquarie on 7.1c while Coff's Harbour
> has dropped to 3.7c...Does anyone know why they may be so cold so
> close to the coast?  And can they explain the rapid change in Port
> Mac's temperature between 10pm and 11pm? - Paul G.
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From: paulmoss at tpgi.com.au
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HI Andrew -

Maybe you mean 1986?? I certainly remember a big fall around 
then - and heading up to Robertson to have a play in the snow. I 
remember the day well - rode my bike to School (Oak Flats High - 
did you go there??) and it was not a bad day - warm really. By 
about 2pm the front had hit and a biter SW wind was blowing 
through. The clouds decsended on Robertson and then lifted about 
45 min later - to a glistening whitre landscape! Rushed home - all 
jumped in the 'olds car and headed to Robertson to see it. Most 
had melted before we got there save some around the more 
sheltered and lower lying areas. But bloody freezing....... and I 
agree that Port Kembla is a damm cold hole in winter!!! Esp when 
you have a decent southerly blowing!!

On 30 May 00, at 7:47, Godsman, Andrew AG wrote:

> Dann,
> It was in August 96 that Wollongong (Robertson) had a significant
> snowfall. I remember it well as during our lunch break (year 8 in high
> school) I was watching the clouds moving in from the SE along the
> Illawarra escarpment and I commented to my mates that they were snow
> clouds. They seriously refused to believe, but I persisted. It wasn't
> until the last class of that day, and after one of our class mates had
> run an errand, that he was very excited on his return by the news that
> you could see snow all through the Robertson area, and the trees were
> covered down another 100-200m from the escarpment in this area. Then
> they believed me.
> 
> We headed up after school and had a large snowfight, etc around four
> hours after the falls, snow was still around 10cm thick on open ground
> (in the sun). Another friend packed snow onto the windscreen and front
> of car, and it lasted until after we returned to Oak Flats (elevation
> 10m). Anyway, that was a snowfall I remember very well.
> 
> It certainly feels cold enough for a repeat in the wind down at Port
> Kembla this morning, I wish I had a thermometer for my push bike as it
> was again extremely cold riding to work at 6:00am today. Also, it had
> rained sometime earlier in the night at North Wollongong.  And there
> was some low cloud around the Robertson area right on dawn, which
> certainly looked as if it could have held snow for that area.
> Currently there appears to be a little low cloud coming off the
> mountains which hasn't happened here since this outbreak.
> 
> Cheers, snow freaks.
> Andrew Godsman
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	T Middleton[SMTP:anvil_industries at hotmail.com]
> > Reply To: 	aussie-weather at world.std.com
> > Sent: 	Tuesday, 30 May 2000 10:14
> > To: 	aussie-weather at world.std.com
> > Subject: 	Re: aus-wx: Cold Outbreak in the Late eighties?
> > 
> > I remember snow at Cranbourne about that same time!it didn't really
> > settle much though.
> > 
> > 
> > >From: "dann weatherhead" <weatherhead at ozemail.com.au>
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> > >To: <aussie-weather at world.std.com>
> > >Subject: aus-wx: Cold Outbreak in the Late eighties?
> > >Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:51:07 +1000
> > >
> > >Hey Fellow Weatherians,
> > >
> > >Prompted by this cold outbreak and reading everybody's accounts of
> > >it, I have remembered a cold outbreak or something like it in the
> > >Late eighties between 1986-87 that occurred in Melbourne. I was
> > >born in Melbourne and lived there for 9 years when moved to Sydney.
> > >I remember going to school early in the morning getting into the
> > >car when it began to snow. I lived in Mulgrave then, south east of
> > >Melbourne, about a kilometre away from Waverley Park. I remember it
> > >snowing all day, coming home to snow thickly covering everything.
> > >My father who lived in Melbourne all his life 'til we moved here
> > >said he could only remember one other day when the snow fell and
> > >stayed on ground.
> > >
> > >Anyway, I was wondering whether anyone had any accounts and figures
> > >of this day. I am pretty sure it was '87, but it maybe could have
> > >been '86
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >Dann
> > >================================
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> > >weatherhead at ozemail.com.au
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From: "John Sweatman" <john-s at zip.com.au>
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Subject: aus-wx: Snow Chase
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Hi all

This evening I've had the time to compile a report on my snow chase on the
weekend. A bit belated, I know, but I thought everyone might want to know
the type of weather I experienced.

I left Sydney at about 8:30am Saturday and headed down the Hume Hwy towards
Goulburn. The sky was clear and conditions quite warm in Sydney when I
left, but the further south I drove, the more cloud developed. When I was
near the Mittagong turnoff, I saw the first dark gust front heading north
towards me and I stopped to take some photos. This gave some moderate rain
as I drove through it, but it didn't last for too long although it was
cloudy with some showers all the way to Goulburn.

I had my digital thermometer with me in the car with the probe poking out
the window to measure the temperatures. When I arrived in Goulburn, the
temperature was 8 C, the sun was shining but to the south-west was a large
cold air towering Cb with a dark base. I went into the shopping centre to
grab something to eat. When I came back outside about 1/2 hr later, it was
dark and sleeting. Excited, I ran back to the car in the sleet, and checked
the temperature - 3 Deg  C!!

I turned on the radio, and the presenter was warning people that there had
been heavy snow in Crookwell and that it was starting to snow in Goulburn.
I didn't have to wait long to see it - I had driven about 3km out of
Goulburn towards Canberra when I hit the first snow flurry of my chase. The
snow was wettish and melted apon hitting the ground, but was definately
snow with some moderately sized flakes. The snow showers continued for
about another 50km towards Canberra and then cleared, and the rest of the
way to Canberra was fine though cloudy and windy. 

It was 8 Deg when I arrived in Canberra and it didn't look like snow at
all, so a little dissapointed, I got some lunch. Then I decided to head up
into the Brindabella's to see what I could see there. I turned off on the
road to Corin Dam and there was heavy cloud and mist ahead of me. The
temperature was steadily dropping the further I gained altitudeand it soon
started to rain. When I drove higher up the range this turned to sleet and
then full on snow. By the time I got to Corin Forest picnic area (with the
hut and the waterslide down the hill) it was snowing heavily and the temp
was around 0 Deg. There was snow all over the ground to an average depth of
about 7cm. There were lots of familys there from Canberra who had taken
their kids up to see the snow. There were kids making huge snow balls and
building snowmen :-) The man made snow play area there was full of natural
snow (snow making wasn't happening), however no one was allowed to play in
that area for some reason :(. I took a walk up the hill and there was fresh
snow everywhere, some drifts over 15cm. The snow started coming down
heavily again and I took plenty of photos of this. (Hope they turn out :P) 

I left Corin forest at about 3 or 4pm and headed back to Canberra, on the
way the announcer on FM104.7 said that it was snowing in the suburbs of
Macquarie and Dickson, and on the top of Mount Ainslie. I headed straight
for the top of Mt Ainslie when I heard this. When I arrived heaps of people
were there sightseeing (obviosly all heard the radio), plus a bus load of
Japanese tourists. The snow had stopped falling when I arrived but was all
over the ground. It was hard to get the snow depth there because it had
been trampled on by heaps of excited people  but my estimate would be about
2cm (not heaps but still a fairly unusual sight for May) 

It was now getting dark (and very windy), so I headed to the Macquarie
Hotel where I was to stay the night. After dinner, I watched the news in
the main TV lounge area. I found that it was pretty boring at the hotel
that Saturday night with only old people there (except for the nice looking
young blond lady at the hotel reception heheheh :-), so I headed into town
to a web cafe and checked all the charts and BoM forcasts for the next day
and read the aussie weather list and the ski.com.au weather discussion.

The next day, Sunday, I left for Cooma at about 9 am. I arrived there at
Cooma at about 10:30. I was hoping to see snow here but the only snow I saw
on the way down from Canberra was the good covering that had settled on the
hills for about the first 40km south of Canberra. It was very blowy in
Cooma however. 

Well you know I just couldn't resist... I wasn't going to do it but the
magnetism of the snowy mountains was too much for me! :-) With Perisher
Blue only 90km or so away, I decided I'd give it a go. About 20kms before
Jindabyne I could see a huge bank of cloud over the snowys. You could tell
it was all snow cloud because it had the typical whitish appearance with
fuzzy, ill-defined edges to the cloud, indicative of lots of ice crystals!

No sooner had I arrived in Jindabyne, it started pelting down snowing. I
saw the largest snow flakes I had ever seen before falling around me. I
quickly stopped the car, got out and stood in the snow. I caught some of
these snowflakes in my hands and marvelled at them. Some of them were 6cm
in diameter although they were not round, they were more ovaly shaped .

The snow began to ease and the flake sizes became smaller after this. I
went into the Jindabyne Snowy Mountains info centre to enquire about road
conditions to Perisher. They said the conditions were very bad with
frequent blizzards and blowing snow in gale force winds. Chains were needed
from Sawpit Creek onwards as the roads were either covered in snow or very
icy after the snowplow had gone through. 

I decided seeing I'd come all this way that I'd go for it, but would have
to drive very carefully. I hired snow chains and headed up the mountains. I
stopped at Sawpit Creek to fit the chains and by this time it was snowing
moderately although the wind would not have been gale force, probably only
25-30kn gusts max. 
The temperature here was fluctuating around 0.5 to 1 Degree on my digital
thermometer.

Soon after I left Sawpit Creek the road conditions deteiorated rapidly with
the road soon becoming covered in compresed snow  / ice, probably to a
depth of about 10cm or so. On the side of the road and in the surrounding
forest, the snow depth was getting close to a metre in places, with an
avererage depth of about 1/2 metre. Not bad for an area were very often
during a normal season it is below the snow line with no snow at all. 

The further I ascended up the range the greater the depth of snow around me
and the visibility started to reduce because of the snow falling and being
picked up off the ground by strong winds. This certainly wasn't a full on
blizzard though although the locals were saying there had been very bad
blizzards in the morning, overnight and the day before, before I was there.
One bloke said it was the worst blizzards he had seen since 1980, for any
time of the year, let alone May. This wasn't at all hard to believe looking
at the amount of snow on the ground. 

Remarkably, I made it to Perisher Blue and was suprised to see the whole
place a virtual ghost town. I would have seen a total of ten people during
the whole time I was at the resort. Everything was closed -including
toilets :-(  The most amasing thing was the amount of snow in the place.
Snow drifts were up to the roofs of some of the buildings in the main
resort near the car park and there was workmen with tractors etc trying to
dig the buildings out of the snow!!!!
It was unbelievable - the average snow depth in the village would be almost
a metre with drifts to close to 2 metres high in some places. The creek
that runs through the village was almost frozen over too. The temperature
in the car park got down to -6.7 on my thermometer at around 2:30 - 3:30 pm
in the afternoon! This was the coldest temperature recorded on the chase,
and also the coldest ever recorded on my thermometer (except when I've put
it in the freezer :-)) The wind chill would have made the effective
temperature much lower than this of course.

Well the chair lifts weren't operating of course so I decided to climb the
mountain. This wasn't easy as the snow was very deep and was not hard
packed. I was sinking down to my thighs in the snow. I only made it half
way up before I got too puffed, so I sat down and took photos - a couple of
a beautiful rain(snow?)bow over the mountains. By this time the snow had
stopped falling and there was just the occasional small ice pellet shower
and snow blown off the ground in the odd gust of wind (which had eased) I
must have been in a break in the snow / blizzard conditions. However there
was dark snow clounds moving in from the West, so I decided I'd better get
down off the mountain and back to the car before another blizzard closed in
 (didn't want to get lost in a complete whiteout)

When I got back to the car I found to my horror that I'd left the lights on
for the 2 hours that I was up on the mountain.  Miraculosly the car started
and I was able to make my way back to Jindabyne before the full force of
the blizzard hit. I didn't completely escape it though, the drive back down
was quite hair -raising with strongs winds (35-40kn) snowfalls becoming
moderate and lots of blown snow reducing visability down to 50 meters at
times. My car nearly slid off the road at one time, (hate to think what it
would be like without wheel chains on the back) Even though the snow
ploughs were going through, many sections of the road had around 20cm of
snow covering them. It wasn't safe to take off the chains until you were
almost back at the kiosk were you pay the enty fee for the Kosciuszko
National Park. 

Anyway I headed back to Jindabyne and by the time I got there the snow had
stopped, so the snowstorm that was coming must have moved to the NE towards
the ACT and missed Jindabyne and Cooma because I didnt get any snow driving
back through those towns. I reckon it was this cell that later dumped snow
on the Footy match at Bruce Stadium in Canberra that night.

So I filled up with fuel at Cooma at 5:30pm had dinner and drove non stop
from Cooma to Sydney. (Don't particulary like driving this long in one go
but had to be back in time to get up for work on Monday) I didn't drive
through any snow on the way back (only some light sleet near lake George)
so I must have already passed through Canberra on the way to Sydney before
it dumped on the footy. 

When I got home to Sydney at 11:30pm, I must say 6 Deg has never felt so
warm !!! :-)

Anyway, I hope this report is not too long winded... I havn't written too
many chase reports before but I'll try to from now on. I think it's good to
have a record of an eye witness account of an amazing weather event like
this one. 

By the way I really enjoy reading all the other reports on the list, and
especially the analysis of the computer models that some people on here
do... its fantastic.

Regards

John Sweatman
Sydney NSW 


 

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exccellent!I assume they're dig. cam?(how quick you got them online)leading 
up to the cold ouutbreak we had 3 consecutive days of great sunrises and 
sunsets here,but the only pic i managed is on my site and even then i got 
there tooooooo late.and you have probably seen it by now.


>From: "Ben Quinn" <bodie at flatrate.net.au>
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>Subject: aus-wx: Sunset Pictures
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:46:06 +1000
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have uploaded a handfull of sunset pictures taken on May 20, and 
>yesterday
>May 28.. yesterdays sunset was quite spectacular!!
>
>http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/products/recent-events-gallery/2000/29-05-2000
>.html
>
>
>Bloody cold up here today - temp at Brisbane airport is about 17c at the
>moment, but the windchill is about about 11c (i think).. brrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:43:51 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius <cyclone at flatrate.net.au>
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Hi Leslie, David and all,

For those people on the list who are uneducated (ie me!)  Could you
please explain the term "vorticity advection."  I have heard it a few
times, and I believe some one explained it once before, but I never
quite was able to grasp the term...

Thanks!

"Leslie R. Lemon" wrote:
> 
> David:
> 
> > Les wrote, "positive vorticity advection".
> 
> LOL.....yes, you got it!!!   I do struggle trying to keep the SH in mind.
> Sorry.  Thanks, David for the correction!
> 
> Les
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