X-Sender: jacob at mail.iinet.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 01:36:11 +0800 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jacob Subject: aus-wx: IRC Weather Chat Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com For all the new people that have joined the list recently and also a reminder to the others, we do have our own Australian IRC weather chatroom. Many of us on the list, chat on the Austnet IRC Network in channel #weather, so if you've intererested, come and join us. If you're not sure how to get there, we have instructions on our #weather website, the url is at: http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/aus-wx-chat/find.html Jacob +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "John Woodbridge" To: Subject: RE: aus-wx: A little bit of elevation! Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:22:27 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi James, It was, plus a little bit of Wind stirring things up, my two reads were 9.0C and 7.0C (bottom of drive), only 2.0C difference due to breeze I guess. John >snip Hi John and all Congratulations on your 2.5C this morning!! My place is in a valley just south of Brisbane (Woodridge) and I've had several frosts lately. These are my last 4 days' minimum temperature readings: Fri: 2.7C Sat: 2.0C Sun: 1.6C Mon: 1.4C These are the coldest temps I've recorded since at least the 1997 winter, and the sequence is up there with the best consecutive frost days. Mind you, I'm living 8km away from where I used to live which is making all the difference (which was higher and had more 'clutter'). It looks like the Tues min temp will be much higher than previous days. The wind is fairly constant at 5-10kn and there's a lot of cirrus cloud (see satpic). I'd go for a 3-5C minimum temp. Btw, I'm using 2 digital thermometers - no S. Screen. Current temp: 8.1C Regards James Chambers +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: Malcolm Ninnes To: "'aussie-weather at world.std.com'" Subject: aus-wx: NSW ASWA Meeting (Sat) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:09:53 +1000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Does anyone in Sydney need a lift to North Sydney on Saturday? I live just west of Parramatta, so if anyone from further out west or around my place needs a lift then let me know. Malcolm Ninnes Unix Systems Admin / Operations Support National Technical Services - Franklins Ltd Ph. (02) 9722-1862 ninnesm at franklins.com.au +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Darwin has coldest night since 1995 Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 01:21:22 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id VAA07712 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Don, Bowen AP recorded 4.0 on 1/6/00 and 4.5 on 2/6/00, both well below the lowest figure I have of 5.5. However that was at the old post office site, and my figures only cover computerised data during the last 18 years before the site closed in 1987. However, apart from urban effect, I think both sites are reasonably comparable, both being close to the sea and on a slight peninsula. Blair may be able to shed more light on this, but they were certainly very low readings. Laurier On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:51:08 +1000, Don White wrote: >blair... >I heard there was a new all time record low at Bowen - can you confirm >this or was it just media talk? >don W > >Blair Trewin wrote: >> >> Darwin today dropped to 13.8 degrees, its coldest night in any >> month since 1995. >> >> There don't seem to be any records at long-period stations, but quite >> a lot of near-misses (Townsville's 5 missed its June record by less >> than a degree) throughout northern and central Australia, with >> scattered -1s at more favoured sites (such as Ali Curung and Three >> Rivers). Unfortunately Mt. Elizabeth on the Kimberley plateau, a >> favoured site for low minima at low latitudes, isn't reporting >> minimum temperatures at present (presumably because of a faulty >> instrument). >> >> Blair Trewin >> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >> To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com >> with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your >> message. >> -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: Blair Trewin Subject: Re: aus-wx: Australia sub 30... To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:47:25 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Following a more exhaustive check of the post-1967 record, the national high temperatures have registered the following notable landmarks: - Friday's national top of 28.2 at Horn Island is the second-lowest on record, following 28.0 on 20 June 1995 at Weipa and Palmerville. - Tuesday (29.3) and Wednesday (28.6) are the only two instances of it failing to reach 30 anywhere in Australia in May. The Wednesday observation is the fifth-lowest for any month , following the two mentioned above, and 28.5 at Bidyadanga (formerly La Grange, west of Broome) on 4 and 5 July 1984. - It failed to reach 30 on six consecutive days (30 May-4 June). Such a run is unprecedented in any season. The run was broken when 30.0 was recorded at two stations yesterday. I took 1967 (the opening of the current Wyndham station) as a starting point; if you go much further back than that the tropical station network (in particular, critical stations such as Weipa, Kuri Bay and Oenpelli) becomes much sparser, and hence there would be an artificial increase in such occurrences. Blair Trewin +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "W.A. (Bill) Webb" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cold snap moves on?? Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:57:02 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Anthony and all, Just caught up with this posting. ----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Cornelius Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 9:57 AM > snip > -1C, Biloela (Capricornia), 0C, Proserpine was 5C again - how are you > guys liking the cold? :-) > Had frosts in Proserpine township Thurs, Fri, Sat am. Mate who reads the thermometer at the airport reported 3 C on Thursday, 1.7 C on Friday. The next morning was colder, but haven't heard his report. Some more frost prone areas here had frosts on days either side of that also. However, by southern standards, they would be mostly light frosts. I'm headed further NORTH! > > I don't think the reports of snow near Mackay are correct - the air was > not cold enough in the low-mid levels up in the Capricornia district for > snow (although the ranges have had snow before). Locals talk of "snow" on Blue Mountain, SW of Mackay, in the big 60's (66 or 68) drought. However informed opinion has it as sleet. Catfish and eels reported dying in shallow local (western) creeks. Very cold again in the 82/83 drought, when fish also died. 1.5 cm ice on horse troughs at 9am. Cold for this far north and coastal. >From another posting, the pool of cold air which drifted from the SW up this way in August 98 did cause the wettest August on record (since1886) in Proserpine area. Storms did accompany this event (no hail here), but only to the extent of a bit of thunder occasionally. Warming up a bit here now, but still have a coat on. See ya, Bill, Proserpine. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 19:58:50 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara Subject: aus-wx: More pics Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Our latest photos are up that represent the weather we had lately.. Unfortunately the snow pics did not turn out well so were not scanned in. I can bring them along to the NSW ASWA meeting though.... http://www.australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2000/index05.html http://www.australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2000/index06.html For a bit of a historic look of the past, look at this squall line system in the features of the month: http://www.australiasevereweather.com/photography/features/200006.htm The light green tinge did come out in some of the photographs - this system dumped large to giant hail and destructive winds caused a fair bit of damage in the northern areas of Sydney.. A couple of pics from this system have been mentioned a few months back but this is the whole system and pics from Paul Graham and David Croan as well. Enjoy as this is the best I could do during the winter months... When film in the other camera gets developed, I will have some pics of snow from the Mt Tomah snow "storm"... At least something can be salvaged.... Jimmy Deguara ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Jimmy Deguara from Schofields, Sydney President of Australian Severe Weather Association Inc. (ASWA) http://severeweather.asn.au e-mail: jdeguara at ihug.com.au homepage with Michael Bath note new URL http://australiasevereweather.com/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Lyle Pakula" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: snowfalls Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 22:58:15 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi, > ground. As this process goes on the atmosphere cools and becomes saturated > via this process to progressively lower and lower levels until finally > reaching the surface. So your saying that the higher humidity helps snow to the ground? This contradicts what David said??? Cheers, Lyle. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------