From: "Ben Quinn" <bodie at flatrate.net.au>
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Subject: Re: aus-wx: hails on Gold Coast?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:59:44 +1000
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Hi Jane,

Max gust would have been just over 30 knots i guess - the shower didn't even
show up on radar.. not even one spec of anything on local or broad - which
goes to show how frustratingly poorly our radar handles coastal
rain/showers..

The cloudtops in a couple of those pictures look quite high jane - very
nice.. we do get the occasional day like that up here if we have a cold pool
over us (ie Jan 12 this year).. but nothing like what you guys get down
there during winter..



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> Ben Quinn wrote:
> > Funny you should say that - in just about every shower today i noticed
what
> > appeared to be 'hail shafts' ... i did get a few pictures of these:
> <snip>
> > There was a stiff 30 knot gust front with it.. close to gales at one
stage
> > actually..
>
> and
>
> > Wilson wrote:
> > > I would like to confirm if there was a bit of hail
> > >  at the gold coast area ( southport )at about 3:00pm today?
> > > as I was doing my last exam and I heard heaps of "stone" like sond
> > > dropping on top of the hall... I was a bit worrying about my car tho..
> > > but I couldn;t found any wet sport on the floor after all...
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Anthony rang me wanting radar for Brisbane at about 3.40pm & early in
> the broad loop there were some nice grunty 10-20's showing up just off
> the coast from Brisbane...Anthony also commented about having to drive
> with 2 hands firmly on the steering wheel to prevent being all over the
> road.......sounds like there were some pretty good wind gusts between 3
> & 4pm - what was the max gust you had?
>
> Ben's pics from today look somewhat like the cold Cb's we get in
> Victoria during cold outbreaks with some basic differences - one being
> the freezing level, and another being height - compare northern cold Cbs
> (Brisbane - 27South) FZL = 3087 mtrs, at
>
> http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/ben/temp3/shower2.jpg
>
> http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/ben/temp3/shower3.jpg
>
>
> with southern cold Cbs (Melbourne - 38South) FZL = 1080 mtrs, at
>
>
> http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/cold_cbs.htm
>
>
> Jane
> --------------------------------
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> cadence at rubix.net.au
>
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From: "dann weatherhead" <weatherhead at ozemail.com.au>
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Indeed the last few days here in Sydney have been somewhat more interesting
than they have been for a while. From vantage spot  at  uni in Penrith there
was explosive activity up and down the coast all day, in the earlier
afternoon particularly. We copped a fairly heavy shower at around 3pm. Some
uni friends of mine reported that this was preceeded my a very brief shower
of fine hail. When i went scouting around a few minutes after there were a
few very small fragments of ice sitting on the tops of puddle . These were
generally swamped by the cigarette butts that  were picked up by this brief
shower. Yet only a thin path had rain, which some 200 metres west was dry
all day.
Anyway an interesting afternoon.

dann
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> Hi Jane,
>
> Max gust would have been just over 30 knots i guess - the shower didn't
even
> show up on radar.. not even one spec of anything on local or broad - which
> goes to show how frustratingly poorly our radar handles coastal
> rain/showers..
>
> The cloudtops in a couple of those pictures look quite high jane - very
> nice.. we do get the occasional day like that up here if we have a cold
pool
> over us (ie Jan 12 this year).. but nothing like what you guys get down
> there during winter..
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MSC <cadence at rubix.net.au>
> To: <aussie-weather at world.std.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 9:45 PM
> Subject: Re: aus-wx: hails on Gold Coast?
>
>
> > Ben Quinn wrote:
> > > Funny you should say that - in just about every shower today i noticed
> what
> > > appeared to be 'hail shafts' ... i did get a few pictures of these:
> > <snip>
> > > There was a stiff 30 knot gust front with it.. close to gales at one
> stage
> > > actually..
> >
> > and
> >
> > > Wilson wrote:
> > > > I would like to confirm if there was a bit of hail
> > > >  at the gold coast area ( southport )at about 3:00pm today?
> > > > as I was doing my last exam and I heard heaps of "stone" like sond
> > > > dropping on top of the hall... I was a bit worrying about my car
tho..
> > > > but I couldn;t found any wet sport on the floor after all...
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Anthony rang me wanting radar for Brisbane at about 3.40pm & early in
> > the broad loop there were some nice grunty 10-20's showing up just off
> > the coast from Brisbane...Anthony also commented about having to drive
> > with 2 hands firmly on the steering wheel to prevent being all over the
> > road.......sounds like there were some pretty good wind gusts between 3
> > & 4pm - what was the max gust you had?
> >
> > Ben's pics from today look somewhat like the cold Cb's we get in
> > Victoria during cold outbreaks with some basic differences - one being
> > the freezing level, and another being height - compare northern cold Cbs
> > (Brisbane - 27South) FZL = 3087 mtrs, at
> >
> > http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/ben/temp3/shower2.jpg
> >
> > http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/ben/temp3/shower3.jpg
> >
> >
> > with southern cold Cbs (Melbourne - 38South) FZL = 1080 mtrs, at
> >
> >
> > http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence/cold_cbs.htm
> >
> >
> > Jane
> > --------------------------------
> > Jane ONeill
> > cadence at rubix.net.au
> >
> > Melbourne Storm Chasers
> > http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence
> >
> > ASWA - Victoria
> > http://www.severeweather.asn.au
> >
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From: "Les Crossan" <les.crossan at virgin.net>
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> Dear all,
> 
> 
> I think it's time for the aussies to let the rest of the world know that
> we are here in enthusiastic & rapidly growing numbers

Sure have done, cannot leave the empire out ((:

Les

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Gday all
     1041 was the rude number my barometer gave me this morning, which is 
the highest by 2 since i got it 5 years ago. What is the highest readings 
measured in australia or nsw?,


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Hi all,

3rd ground frost in a row at St Peters.  My 7.00am temperature was +1.5.

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:31:53 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius <cyclone at flatrate.net.au>
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Hi all,

The showers that formed yesterday appeared to form on a S'ly surge that
went up the coast very quickly.  It wasn't anything major, just enough
to spark up a few CJ showers on the line.  The temperature dropped from
20.3C to 17.9C as I went through the gusts, and only rose to the mid
18's after that, and it was remarkably cool after the showers had passed
with a slightly stronger S'ly.  I was changing the CD tracks at the time
I got hit by the gusts (which surprised me, at this stage they were only
drizzle showers!)  And it was probably more noticable because I was only
driving with one hand at the time, and then suddenly the wind was
"throwing" the wheel, and I had to hold onto it with the other hand just
until after the gust had passed.  Winds probably were near gale force.

The showers moved incredibly quickly, given that most of the distance
between my work and home is freeway, and I was doing 110, and I was
basically running parallel to the showers (heading ~N), only gaining a
little ground, but as soon as I stopped for 30 seconds at home, they'd
already passed me and were heading north of the Brisbane River. 
Typically, the line of showers that had very nice dark RFB's, let out
their guts as they moved north of the river (and at 4pm, you can forget
going into the airport area industrial park.)

Some showers did show up Ben, as Jane mentioned there was a line of
2-10's off the coast.  It was the showers over land that didn't show up
properly.

While at a park on the Brisbane River near Lytton, I thought I saw
Damien Howes' car (especially when I saw the car overtaking someone on
the park driveway hehe), so I purposely tried to catch up with him in
the carpark (largish carpark) but it wasn't him.  Should have known I'd
be the only idiot on the southside chasing showers <g>

As to finally answer Wilson's question - hail could have been quite
possible, and has certainly been possible for the past few days with the
cold air above us (although there has been a reasonable warming in the
upper levels in the past 24-36hrs, it still is possible).

Anthony Cornelius

Ben Quinn wrote:
> 
> Hi Jane,
> 
> Max gust would have been just over 30 knots i guess - the shower didn't even
> show up on radar.. not even one spec of anything on local or broad - which
> goes to show how frustratingly poorly our radar handles coastal
> rain/showers..
> 
> The cloudtops in a couple of those pictures look quite high jane - very
> nice.. we do get the occasional day like that up here if we have a cold pool
> over us (ie Jan 12 this year).. but nothing like what you guys get down
> there during winter..
> 
> ----- Original Message -----

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From: Blair Trewin <blair at earthsci.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: aus-wx: high pressure
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> 
> Gday all
>      1041 was the rude number my barometer gave me this morning, which is 
> the highest by 2 since i got it 5 years ago. What is the highest readings 
> measured in australia or nsw?,
> 

This is a difficult question to answer because our database is riddled
with erroneous sea-level pressures where the station pressure has 
been corrected to sea-level twice by mistake (it may happen only
5 times in a 50-year record, but when you multiply that by several
hundred stations it's enough to completely screw up any search on
high pressures). I'm actually working on eliminating these errors
at the moment, so I may be in a position to give a more definite 
answer in a week or two.

Anyway, I have been through most of the Bureau-staffed/capital city
stations. A sample of record highs is:

Hobart		1043.6
Launceston	1044.3 (highest of the stations I looked at)
Melbourne	1041.2
Canberra	1042.9*
Wagga		1042.3
Sydney		1040.0
Brisbane AP	1034.1
Adelaide	1040.5
Perth AP	1039.9
Darwin		1021.4
Alice Springs	1034.0

* The conversion to sea-level at high-elevation stations becomes
increasingly unreliable at the extremes; Canberra (570m) is near
the upper limit of elevation for a reasonable MSLP to be calculated -
WMO recommends that MSLP not be calculated for stations above 800m.

The Tasmanian/Australian highest values date from early June 1967
(which almost certainly provided the Australian record - it's 
certainly the only time I've seen a chart with a closed 1044 isobar);
most of the NSW, Victorian and southern Queensland values are from
7-8 July 1987, whilst Adelaide's was set in May 1973 and Perth's in
July 1951.

Two caveats - this only covers the period of digital pressure data
(from 1940-1950 or so at most of the above stations), and it covers
3-hourly data - so fractionally higher values may have occurred
between observations (although, as pressure changes slowly in high-
pressure situations, we would be talking about a few tenths of
a hectopascal at most - unlike extreme low pressures which tend to 
happen at times of rapid pressure variation, especially in tropical 
cyclones).

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At 22:37 13/06/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>
>I think it's time for the aussies to let the rest of the world know that
>we are here in enthusiastic & rapidly growing numbers....if you would
>like to add your site (or someone else's) to Storm-track.com go to the
>following page....
>
>http://www.storm-track.com/links.htm
>
>So far the international links consist of the following......I think we
>should expand it <g>
>
>
>European, Australian, and Asian chasing
> 
>David Shohami (Israel). 
>Dutch Tornado Chasers (Netherlands) -- in Dutch. 
>Ira Fehlberg (Western Australia). 
>James Chambers (Australia). 
>Melbourne Storm Chasers (Australia). Detailed and informative chase
>summaries. 
>M. Bath & J. Deguara (Australia). 
>Michael Thompson (Australia). 
>Oscar Van der Velde (Netherlands) -- thunderstorm & lightning
>photographs and movies. 
>Sydney Storm Chasers (Australia). 
>TORRO (Great Britain). 
>



Not to mention The NZ Thunderstorm Soc on your list 
We are the only storm chase organisation over here as far as I know.
We don't have a web-page but we do chase storms in our region of New Zealand. 
Unfortunately, we don't get very many of them, especially here in
Canterbury, where the NZTS is based.
The weather generally here has been SO BORING recently, especially over the
Summer period where storm activity was very low almost non-existant over
much of the country.
However, the 2 members myself and Bob Crowder are very keen and devoted
storm-chasers - whenever they happen!

John Gaul
New Zealand Thunderstorm Society

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:57:28 +1000
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Hi John,

Perhaps you'd like to give some details on how to join the NZ
Thunderstorm Society?  As I know that there are a couple of NZ people on
the list, and they may be interested in joining.  Some devoted Aussies
may also be interested - you never know!

John Gaul wrote:
> 
> At 22:37 13/06/00 +1000, you wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >
> >I think it's time for the aussies to let the rest of the world know that
> >we are here in enthusiastic & rapidly growing numbers....if you would
> >like to add your site (or someone else's) to Storm-track.com go to the
> >following page....
> >
> >http://www.storm-track.com/links.htm
> >
> >So far the international links consist of the following......I think we
> >should expand it <g>
> >
> >
> >European, Australian, and Asian chasing
> >
> >David Shohami (Israel).
> >Dutch Tornado Chasers (Netherlands) -- in Dutch.
> >Ira Fehlberg (Western Australia).
> >James Chambers (Australia).
> >Melbourne Storm Chasers (Australia). Detailed and informative chase
> >summaries.
> >M. Bath & J. Deguara (Australia).
> >Michael Thompson (Australia).
> >Oscar Van der Velde (Netherlands) -- thunderstorm & lightning
> >photographs and movies.
> >Sydney Storm Chasers (Australia).
> >TORRO (Great Britain).
> >
> 
> Not to mention The NZ Thunderstorm Soc on your list
> We are the only storm chase organisation over here as far as I know.
> We don't have a web-page but we do chase storms in our region of New Zealand.
> Unfortunately, we don't get very many of them, especially here in
> Canterbury, where the NZTS is based.
> The weather generally here has been SO BORING recently, especially over the
> Summer period where storm activity was very low almost non-existant over
> much of the country.
> However, the 2 members myself and Bob Crowder are very keen and devoted
> storm-chasers - whenever they happen!
> 
> John Gaul
> New Zealand Thunderstorm Society
> 
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From: Blair Trewin <blair at earthsci.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: aus-wx: Extreme heat in China
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Noticed that it reached 40 in Beijing yesterday, about 10 degrees
above average for this time of year and close to record territory
(I seem to recall - and a Chinese colleague agrees - that their
all-time record high is somewhere around 41 or 42). Very low
humidity, too (about 10%), and a huge diurnal range by their
standards (minimum was 18, whereas when it was getting close to 40
last summer, the mins were in the high 20s).

I've also seen press reports about drought and sandstorms, but haven't
seen any numbers as yet to back this up.

Blair Trewin
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From: Blair Trewin <blair at earthsci.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Another abnormally cool day over Australia
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> 
> Monday was another abnormally cool day over Australia, with a 
> national high of only 28.4 degrees - as discussed in earlier postings,
> this is only 0.4 degrees above the record.
> 
> Even stranger, said national high was at Gingin, just north of
> Perth - remarkably far south for a national high at this time of
> year. Perth Airport itself got to 26, not a record but the highest
> this far into winter (the June record of 27.8 was set on 5/6/1975).
> 

After several near-misses this record has now been equalled. 
Yesterday's national high was 28.0 at Oenpelli and Jabiru.

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From: Blair Trewin <blair at earthsci.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: aus-wx: Low temps in SE Australia this morning
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Charlottes Pass recorded -15.6 this morning, the lowest in Australia
since Charlottes got -18.0 and Perisher -17.0 on 12 July 1998.

Cooma Airport (-9.9) narrowly missed out on scoring the first non-
alpine -10 of the winter. Sub-zero minima were common in NSW, Victoria
and SA, -5 at Yunta being a notable observation - this appears to be
a very cold site indeed and might well be the site of SA's first -10
if there is ever a repeat of the 1976 cold spell.

Melbourne's 2.6 was also its lowest since July 1998, although that
says more about last winter (or its absence thereof) than about the
coldness of the night. The city-suburbs temperature contrast wasn't
what it sometimes is on such nights (there was no sign of frost on
the Yarra flats at Heidelberg this morning, whereas I'd normally 
expect it with any city minimum below about 5), perhaps because there
was more fog in the eastern suburbs than there was in the city.

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From: "Ben Quinn" <bodie at flatrate.net.au>
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Hi Anthony,

> Some showers did show up Ben, as Jane mentioned there was a line of
> 2-10's off the coast.  It was the showers over land that didn't show up
> properly.

Sorry i should have been clearer - what i meant was that the shower i posted
the pictures of to the list didn't show up on radar (should have been light
blue/yellow on radar)... there were other showers further off the coast
though that did show up...

I didn't mean to sound like i was contradicting Janes obersvations..






> > Hi Jane,
> >
> > Max gust would have been just over 30 knots i guess - the shower didn't
even
> > show up on radar.. not even one spec of anything on local or broad -
which
> > goes to show how frustratingly poorly our radar handles coastal
> > rain/showers..
> >
> > The cloudtops in a couple of those pictures look quite high jane - very
> > nice.. we do get the occasional day like that up here if we have a cold
pool
> > over us (ie Jan 12 this year).. but nothing like what you guys get down
> > there during winter..
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
>
> --
> Anthony Cornelius
> Queensland Coordinator of the Australian Severe Weather Association
> (ASWA)
> (07) 3390 4812
> 14 Kinsella St
> Belmont, Brisbane
> QLD, 4153
> Please report severe thunderstorms on our Queensland severe thunderstorm
> reporting line on (07) 3390 4218 or by going to our homepage at
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Hi Blair

By eastern suburbs, I'm not sure if you're meaning way out here in
Clayton, but I can say that here from 4am onwards there was no fog and I
could see straight up and down Blackburn road from Monash Uni until the
next intersection which is probably around 100m each way?? 
A slight hint of misty light could be seen around the streetlights way off
in the distance.  Anyway, it definitely was _no where near_ as thick as it
was the previous two mornings.

A slight breeze from the north was detectable, which may have resulted in
the air being mixed too much, or too dry for fog as it was coming from
inland??? 

Checking out the nights records of temp and dewpoint for Melbourne from
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/YMML.html

shows that the dew point was around 1degC, whereas on the previous
morning, I think it was up around 3degC, thus drier air this morning.
However, the accuracy of this source may be questionable. 


Cheers

> > Melbourne's 2.6 was also its lowest since July 1998, although that
> says more about last winter (or its absence thereof) than about the
> coldness of the night. The city-suburbs temperature contrast wasn't
> what it sometimes is on such nights (there was no sign of frost on
> the Yarra flats at Heidelberg this morning, whereas I'd normally 
> expect it with any city minimum below about 5), perhaps because there
> was more fog in the eastern suburbs than there was in the city.
> 

--

Robert A. Goler        

E-mail robert at mail.maths.monash.edu.au
http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/~robert/

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Monash University
Clayton, Vic 3800
Australia

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At 10:57 14/06/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi John
>
>Perhaps you'd like to give some details on how to join the NZ
>Thunderstorm Society?  As I know that there are a couple of NZ people on
>the list, and they may be interested in joining.  Some devoted Aussies
>may also be interested - you never know!

Hi Anthony (and others)

The NZ Thunderstorm Soc was formed in the early 1980's when 'the El Nino
was delivering really exceptional weather' especially here in Canterbury
New Zealand with lots of cold southerly fronts bringing in severe
thunderstorms and hail and even a damaaging tornado to the Halswell suburb
of ChCh in 1982. 

It was a good weather period for interesting weather.

>From then on we have had the usual amount of thunderstorms, average about 3
a year but lately apart from one or 2 'rodent' weather events, nothing much
has happened.
The last summer or thunderstorm period was the worst one I have ever
experienced with NO thunderstorm activity over the entire period except for
some weak thunder activity way to the east of Banks Peninsula around the
22nd January.

Wellington and Auckland have favoured better than here with numerous
interesting events.

We don't jave a constitution or a Web site, just T shirts to indicate
membership, the T-shirts are ONLY to be worn when interesting inclement
weather is likelt to occur.
The excutive members, Bob and myself wear 'thunder-pants' when we know that
a really good storm is going to develop especially around Canterbury. We
have had coverage on the media when interesting weather, mainly
thunderstorms when they have occured.

Any other person is welcomed to join or become interested or even form a
New Zealand Severe Weather Association like those in Aussie?!!!!

Anyone out there ???

John Gaul
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From: "Karratha Weather" <karrathaweather at wn.com.au>
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Subject: aus-wx: Heavy Rainfall in WA's SW!
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:35:00 +0800
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some huge rainfall totals to 9am have been reported 
from many SW sites today from a rainband that has been sitting over the SW area 
for the past 2 days now.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pinjarra South (100kms south of Perth) recorded 
124mm to 9am which was the highest in the country to 9am :). Other reports 
include Mandurah 99mm, Bussleton AP 80mm, Bunbury&nbsp;68mm&nbsp;&nbsp;and Perth 
48mm.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the other rainfall reports you can find here: 
<A 
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lots of water flowing into the dams and the farmers 
should be happy too :)</FONT></DIV>
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From: "Ben Quinn" <bodie at flatrate.net.au>
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Hi everyone,

Check out these Ballina rainfall and wind observations

http://ausweather.simplenet.com/pub/$NOTEAWS.TXT

58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0249 36035KT     /////////     Q1033.7 RF08.6/024.0
58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0257 34021KT     /////////     Q1034.0 RF23.0/044.4
58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0305 31020KT     /////////     Q1033.7 RF64.0/101.0
58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0311 24021G63KT  /////////     Q1033.7 RF96.8/163.4
58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0315 30026G70KT  /////////     Q1033.6 RF99.2/200.2
58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0320 36020G49KT  /////////     Q1033.7 RF73.0/225.6

Has to be AWS error - i just pulled the radar for that time out of my cache,
and there are no intense echo's at all - barely even any organised
showers...



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From: Blair Trewin <blair at earthsci.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Heavy Rainfall in WA's SW!
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> 
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> Hey all
> 
> Some huge rainfall totals to 9am have been reported from many SW sites =
> today from a rainband that has been sitting over the SW area for the =
> past 2 days now.
> Pinjarra South (100kms south of Perth) recorded 124mm to 9am which was =
> the highest in the country to 9am :). Other reports include Mandurah =
> 99mm, Bussleton AP 80mm, Bunbury 68mm  and Perth 48mm.
> All the other rainfall reports you can find here: =
> http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDO41W01.txt  there is a HEAP =
> of them!
> Lots of water flowing into the dams and the farmers should be happy too =
> :)

It didn't penetrate far inland, though - only 0.4 mm at Cunderdin, for 
example. I don't know yet if that region has picked up anything 
today.

124 is certainly a very high 24-hour total for this region in winter;
of the stations I've looked at, Cape Leeuwin has had 174 (in August),
but it was hard to find much else over 100. (It is a different story
in summer, when most of the region's heaviest single rain events
have taken place - most recently in January this year - despite the
normal dry conditions then).

Blair Trewin
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>Cooma Airport (-9.9) narrowly missed out on scoring the first non-
>alpine -10 of the winter. Sub-zero minima were common in NSW, Victoria
>and SA, -5 at Yunta being a notable observation - this appears to be
>a very cold site indeed and might well be the site of SA's first -10
>if there is ever a repeat of the 1976 cold spell.


As someone who had to camp out for a week just north of Yunta in the May
1985 cold spell, I can attest to that Blair!

What were the circumstances surrounding the 1976 event?

Phil 'Paisley' Bagust
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:01:59 +1000
From: Don White <donwhite at ozemail.com.au>
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bureau has corrected to 25 mm in 24 hours.
don w

Ben Quinn wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Check out these Ballina rainfall and wind observations
> 
> http://ausweather.simplenet.com/pub/$NOTEAWS.TXT
> 
> 58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0249 36035KT     /////////     Q1033.7 RF08.6/024.0
> 58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0257 34021KT     /////////     Q1034.0 RF23.0/044.4
> 58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0305 31020KT     /////////     Q1033.7 RF64.0/101.0
> 58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0311 24021G63KT  /////////     Q1033.7 RF96.8/163.4
> 58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0315 30026G70KT  /////////     Q1033.6 RF99.2/200.2
> 58 YBNA Ballina AP 0614 0320 36020G49KT  /////////     Q1033.7 RF73.0/225.6
> 
> Has to be AWS error - i just pulled the radar for that time out of my cache,
> and there are no intense echo's at all - barely even any organised
> showers...
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From: "Zac" <mnk at Dingoblue.net.au>
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Here Here !!!!!


----- Original Message -----
From: MSC <cadence at rubix.net.au>
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<WX-CHASE at postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 7:09 PM
Subject: aus-wx: Australian Severe Weather Association membership reaches
200!!!!!


> Notice to the world!!
>
> ASWA reached a milestone in reaching a total of 200 members after in
> just over 1 year from the date of incorporation...and it's a big welcome
> to Jason Balhorn for his part in helping us reach this milestone!!!!
> Jason joined ASWA - Victoria tonight!
>
> A huge thanks to Jimmy Deguara & Michael Bath for their part in making
> this a dream that came true, and also the played by David Hart & Jacob
> Aufdemkampe in the creation of the list and the chat room.
>
> Thanks also to all of the committee and the state reps who've been a
> *huge* part in all this - and also to *all* of the members (both amateur
> & professional) of ASWA & the aussie-weather list for their incredible
> enthusiasm & penchant for sharing huge amounts of information with
> everyone else on the list.  I think our lives have all been enriched by
> being members of either ASWA and / or aussie weather.
>
> ...and to those of you who are already international members, and to
> those of you who would like to join...thanks for being a part of
> this!!!!!
>
> HERE'S TO THE FUTURE!!!!!!
>
>
> a very highly delighted,
>
>
> Jane
>
> --------------------------------
> Jane ONeill
> cadence at rubix.net.au
>
> Melbourne Storm Chasers
> http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence
>
> ASWA - Victoria
> http://www.severeweather.asn.au
>
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:09:49 +1000
From: MSC <cadence at rubix.net.au>
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Notice to the world!!

ASWA reached a milestone in reaching a total of 200 members after in
just over 1 year from the date of incorporation...and it's a big welcome
to Jason Balhorn for his part in helping us reach this milestone!!!! 
Jason joined ASWA - Victoria tonight!

A huge thanks to Jimmy Deguara & Michael Bath for their part in making
this a dream that came true, and also the played by David Hart & Jacob
Aufdemkampe in the creation of the list and the chat room.

Thanks also to all of the committee and the state reps who've been a
*huge* part in all this - and also to *all* of the members (both amateur
& professional) of ASWA & the aussie-weather list for their incredible
enthusiasm & penchant for sharing huge amounts of information with
everyone else on the list.  I think our lives have all been enriched by
being members of either ASWA and / or aussie weather.

...and to those of you who are already international members, and to
those of you who would like to join...thanks for being a part of
this!!!!!

HERE'S TO THE FUTURE!!!!!!


a very highly delighted,


Jane

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

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

ASWA - Victoria
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:50:18 +1200
From: Gregg J Ward <gregg.ward at xtra.co.nz>
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Hi John,

My name is Gregg Ward.  I am a member of the NZ Meteorological Society and I
have been a member of this list, on and off, for the past year.

I have seen my fair share of severe weather, including golf-ball sized hail,
small funnel clouds and some severe thunderstorms, in and areound the Manawatu
and Palmerston North, where I live, over the past 15 years.

I would be interested in being in an NZ Severe Weather Association, similar to
the the Aussie one.



Gregg Ward


John Gaul wrote:

> At 10:57 14/06/00 +1000, you wrote:
> >Hi John
> >
> >Perhaps you'd like to give some details on how to join the NZ
> >Thunderstorm Society?  As I know that there are a couple of NZ people on
> >the list, and they may be interested in joining.  Some devoted Aussies
> >may also be interested - you never know!
>
> Hi Anthony (and others)
>
> The NZ Thunderstorm Soc was formed in the early 1980's when 'the El Nino
> was delivering really exceptional weather' especially here in Canterbury
> New Zealand with lots of cold southerly fronts bringing in severe
> thunderstorms and hail and even a damaaging tornado to the Halswell suburb
> of ChCh in 1982.
>
> It was a good weather period for interesting weather.
>
> >From then on we have had the usual amount of thunderstorms, average about 3
> a year but lately apart from one or 2 'rodent' weather events, nothing much
> has happened.
> The last summer or thunderstorm period was the worst one I have ever
> experienced with NO thunderstorm activity over the entire period except for
> some weak thunder activity way to the east of Banks Peninsula around the
> 22nd January.
>
> Wellington and Auckland have favoured better than here with numerous
> interesting events.
>
> We don't jave a constitution or a Web site, just T shirts to indicate
> membership, the T-shirts are ONLY to be worn when interesting inclement
> weather is likelt to occur.
> The excutive members, Bob and myself wear 'thunder-pants' when we know that
> a really good storm is going to develop especially around Canterbury. We
> have had coverage on the media when interesting weather, mainly
> thunderstorms when they have occured.
>
> Any other person is welcomed to join or become interested or even form a
> New Zealand Severe Weather Association like those in Aussie?!!!!
>
> Anyone out there ???
>
> John Gaul
> New Zealand Thunderstorm Scoiety
>
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NEWSLETTER No. 2000/3

  June 2000


Sydney Centre Committee for 2000:

Chair           Milton Speer            BoM
Vice Chair      Elly Spark              BoM
Secretary       Michael Box             Uni of New South Wales
Treasurer       Angela Maharaj  Macquarie University
Committee       Julie Evans             BoM
                 Paul Graham             Macquarie University
                 Neil Holbrook           Macquarie University
                 Alan Williams           Sydney Uni (retired).


NOTICE OF JUNE SCIENTIFIC MEETING

The next meeting of the AMOS Sydney Centre will be held on Wednesday 28 
June, 2000
Venue: Macquarie University
             School of Earth Sciences
             Room 143, Building E5A, Level 1
             Parking is available on campus, but fees apply: be careful.
Time:   7:30 p.m. for a 7:45 p.m. start.

The program includes announcements, the current weather situation and 
forecasts for the week. The main seminar will be on "Warm-Season Supercell 
Thunderstorms in Australia", by Dr. Andrew Treloar (full details on next page).

The Committee will be dining with the speaker at the nearby "Middle of 
Nowhere" restaurant from about 6:00 p.m. Members and guests are welcome to 
join the Committee at the dinner. Please contact Angela Maharaj (02 
9850-8344/fax 9850-8420) or email amaharaj at penman.es.mq.edu.au if you wish 
to attend the dinner so that a booking can be made.
Some light refreshments will be available following the meeting. (There 
will be a $2 charge for non-AMOS members, other than students.)
Sydney AMOS Presentation, June 28, 2000
Macquarie University

Warm-Season Supercell Thunderstorms in Australia

Dr. Andrew Treloar
Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney

Abstract

Severe thunderstorms pose a significant risk to the Australian community. 
Of particular importance are long-lived Supercell thunderstorms that 
produce large swathes of giant hail, destructive winds and outbreaks of 
tornadoes. Supercell storms differ from other thunderstorms due to the 
presence of persistent updraft rotation. This enhances storm severity and 
longevity.
Supercell thunderstorms are well documented in the North American 
literature and their climatology and supporting environment in that area is 
generally well known. Although numerous Supercell events have been 
documented in Australia, their general environment and relative 
distribution around the country is still not well understood.
Using criteria based on significant surface impacts, distinctive radar 
characteristics and the proximity of upper-air soundings, a database has 
been constructed containing close to 40 Australian Supercell thunderstorms, 
representing all mainland States of Australia. This talk will present 
preliminary results on the local environments associated with these events, 
illustrated by radar loops of various classes of Supercells and their 
"distinctive" radar echo types.
Further work will involve the generation of a climatology of Supercell 
storms in Australia based on a method recently employed to define the 
distribution of cool-season tornado events.


Notes on the Speaker

Andrew Treloar has been employed by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology 
since 1986 in the roles of Weather Observer, Technical Officer and 
Meteorologist. He has been involved in the Bureau's Severe Weather program 
for the majority of his career, and until recently was manager of the NSW 
Severe Thunderstorm and Fire Weather program. In his current role as the 
NSW Supervising Meteorologist he oversees the provision of all weather 
services in the State. Andrew has published papers on numerous topics 
including the meteorology of a severe "blow-up" fire in Victoria, 
conditions producing extreme fire weather risk in NSW, storm damage 
assessment and objective techniques for radar hail identification. Andrew's 
qualifications include a Bachelor of Science (Forestry), a Graduate Diploma 
in Meteorology and a Weather Observer's Certificate.

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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/

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 23:40:47 +1200
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Subject: Re: NZ T'Storm Society - was: Re: aus-wx: Storm-track.comlinks
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At 22:50 14/06/00 +1200, you wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>My name is Gregg Ward.  I am a member of the NZ Meteorological Society and I
>have been a member of this list, on and off, for the past year.
>
>I have seen my fair share of severe weather, including golf-ball sized hail,
>small funnel clouds and some severe thunderstorms, in and areound the
Manawatu
>and Palmerston North, where I live, over the past 15 years.
>
>I would be interested in being in an NZ Severe Weather Association,
similar to
>the the Aussie one.
>
>
>
>Gregg Ward
>

Hi Gregg,
A New Zealand Severe Weather Association would be good for NZ, an extension
of my NZ Thunderstorm Soc.
I wonder if people like Augie Auer, Jim Hickey would be interested as
sponsors???
ie. TVNZ or TV3? 
Bob and I are keen to hear from other weather observers around New Zealand.
I don't know about others members in the MetSoc. I could send an email to
Tony Trewinnard of BlueSkies Weather or that guy that runs WeatherWorkshop???
Tony Trewinnard, an excellent forecaster, I think, is keen to do his own
thing!
Bob McDavitt, the so called Weather Ambassodor of MetService may know of a
few contacts?
Hey!  Lets organize ???
The weather has been so boring lately until the recent weather 'snaps'
Hope more follow!


John Gaul
New Zealand Thunderstorm Scoiety


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From: John Gaul <nzts.nz at caverock.net.nz>
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Australian Severe Weather Association membership
  reaches 200!!!!!
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At 19:09 14/06/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Notice to the world!!
>
>ASWA reached a milestone in reaching a total of 200 members after in
>just over 1 year from the date of incorporation...and it's a big welcome
>to Jason Balhorn for his part in helping us reach this milestone!!!! 
>Jason joined ASWA - Victoria tonight!
>
>A huge thanks to Jimmy Deguara & Michael Bath for their part in making
>this a dream that came true, and also the played by David Hart & Jacob
>Aufdemkampe in the creation of the list and the chat room.
>
>Thanks also to all of the committee and the state reps who've been a
>*huge* part in all this - and also to *all* of the members (both amateur
>& professional) of ASWA & the aussie-weather list for their incredible
>enthusiasm & penchant for sharing huge amounts of information with
>everyone else on the list.  I think our lives have all been enriched by
>being members of either ASWA and / or aussie weather.
>
>...and to those of you who are already international members, and to
>those of you who would like to join...thanks for being a part of
>this!!!!!
>
>HERE'S TO THE FUTURE!!!!!!
>
>
>a very highly delighted,
>
>
>Jane

Lots of best wishes from the New Zealand Thunderstorm Society

John Gaul
President and Founder
New Zealand Thunderstorm Society

NZTS -  more than just thunder

PS. stop sending those bloody annoying anticyclones!!!


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