From: "Les Crossan" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Eye of the Storm series 3 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:20:39 +0100 Organization: Cosmic EuroCon 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
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Smith
To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Eye of the Storm series 3

A few months ago the "Eye of the Storm" people interviewed me here in Hong Kong about when I was struck twice by lightning in Australia many years ago.  We don't get the program here, so if someone sees that episode down there, I would love to hear how it went.
 
We're liable to get it here first....
 
Les (UK)
 From: "Les Crossan" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Eye of the Storm series 3 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:24:46 +0100 Organization: Cosmic EuroCon 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
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: aus-wx: Eye of the Storm series 3

Yikes, I can only imagine what I looked like - let alone what I spoke like.
 
Looked OK to me!!! I'll send Jane a CDROM of it...
 
Les (UK)
 X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:39:07 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara Subject: aus-wx: Cold Morning Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, I can say that even though it must have had been very cold in some areas this morning, I awoke and looked out the window - wiping the moisture from the inside of the window and the lawn was bright white. I went down near the dam and measured a temperature of -4.6 definitely the coldest morning this winter. It was interesting watching the probe temperature vary as a light fog came through ie the temperature would fall a little. I have taken pictures but I know from experience frost is difficult to photograph for true white colour. 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: wbc at ozemail.com.au (Laurier Williams) To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Unusual temperature variation at Orange NSW Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:48:12 GMT X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by europe.std.com id UAA19015 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com It's interesting to see the effect the decaying cloud band had as it passed Orange overnight. The city's minimum for the night (~minus 6.5) appears to have occurred *before* the cloud band, at around 10pm. The mercury then shot up to -1.5 at 10.41pm -- so sharply that the AWS generated a SPECI or special weather report -- and briefly got above zero at 11pm before dropping steadily to a second minimum of ~minus 5.5 at 4am. Any of the locals care to comment? Laurier >** 63 YORG Orange AP* >63 METAR 0712 1200 24010KT 07.9/M01.1 Q1014.0 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 1300 22011KT 07.3/01.2 Q1013.3 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 1400 23008KT 07.1/01.2 Q1012.6 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 1400 23008KT 07.1/01.2 Q1012.6 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 1500 21007KT 07.2/00.7 Q1012.3 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 1600 21007G08KT 06.5/M00.5 Q1012.2 SKC >63 METAR 0712 1700 21006G07KT 03.2/M00.8 Q1012.3 SKC >63 METAR 0712 1800 21004KT 01.1/M00.5 Q1012.8 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 1900 21005G06KT M00.1/M01.4 Q1013.4 SKC >63 METAR 0712 2000 00000KT M01.4/M02.4 Q1013.4 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 2100 21005KT M05.6/M06.9 Q1013.5 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 2200 21005KT M06.5/M07.7 Q1013.7 RF00.0/000.0 >63 SPECI 0712 2241 21004KT M01.5/M02.4 Q1013.7 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0712 2300 21006KT 00.1/M00.6 Q1013.6 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0000 21004KT M00.3/M01.0 Q1013.3 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0100 00000KT M03.2/M03.9 Q1012.7 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0200 00000KT M03.8/M04.7 Q1012.5 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0300 00000KT M04.5/M05.6 Q1012.4 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0400 00000KT M05.5/M06.6 Q1012.4 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0500 00000KT M05.2/M06.3 Q1012.6 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0600 00000KT M04.9/M05.9 Q1013.2 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0700 00000KT M03.2/M04.2 Q1013.5 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0800 00000KT M01.0/M01.7 Q1013.7 RF00.0/000.0 >63 METAR 0713 0900 20005KT 01.5/00.8 Q1014.1 RF00.0/000.2 > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: bayns at mail.broad.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:48:59 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: steve baynham Subject: aus-wx: morning storms, freak wind storm Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com hey all, pleasant site this morning on the way to work, a cell way out in the ocean. saw one flash of lightning just after six. the sun soon rose which deminished any hope of seeing more. there are still cells east of here far out in the ocean. some producing small anvils. its 12:30 right now. you can see them on radar off coolangatta. gunna take some pics. will get the film back today from mondays storms, will post the scans this arvo. tuesdays report of a freak wind storm was just that. there were suggestions that it may have been a waterspout coming off the nerang river. the report came from a business in nerang who left no details at all. the BOM nknew nuthing of it and the radio station couldn't tell me anything either, although he sounded very interested in ASWA and would like to here from me again about weather updates and chases so we could inform the gold coast region of nearby weather events. it seems as though it was just strong gusts coming down the hills. if it were a waterspout, i'm sure we would've heard more. well cyas steve Steve Baynham http://www.angelfire.com/ok/gany Australian Severe Weather Association http://www.severeweather.asn.au Brisbane Storm Chasers http://www.bsch.simplenet.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------------------------------ X-Sender: jacob at mail.iinet.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:28:32 +0800 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jacob Subject: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Just saw the 1pm Channel 10 newsbreak, and their main story was about a tornado hitting the Perth southern suburb of Thornlie. They didn't say very much about it, as it was only a brief newsbreak, but they said about 8 homes were damaged. We're also getting close to our average July rainfall, and we're still in the first half of the month, we've currently had 153.6mm this month, the average is 173mm. 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: "Ben Tichborne" To: Subject: aus-wx: Re: aussie-weather-digest V1 #637 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:38:34 +1200 Organization: Private X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > But some of the models are hinting at a major outbreak of cold next Tues - > Wed. What's happened with the forecast cold outbreak that was (by Laurier's notes) forecast to hit tomorrow?. Looking at the current SE Aus. forecasts, it seems they're now only getting a 'cool' southwesterly airstream, with snow only on the alpine areas. No sign of any cold southerly over Christchurch at present. The high remains immobile to the east of us, but the airflow has now changed from easterly to northeasterly. Instead of the cold drizzle we had with the easterlies, we now have mild sunshine (less of the air comes from the sea in northeasterlies). This may be boring to some, but it's great to have a spell in mid-winter when you can put the washing out in the morning and it's dry by the end of the day, and when you can go outside in the sunshine. Still looking forward to proper wintry weather in the near future. Ben Tichborne Christchurch NZ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: bayns at mail.broad.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:38:14 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: steve baynham Subject: aus-wx: new pictures Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com storms on monday, nice front http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/100700p.jpg & http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/100700p1.jpg and sunset last friday http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/070700p.jpg & http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/0707003.jpg Steve Baynham http://www.angelfire.com/ok/gany Australian Severe Weather Association http://www.severeweather.asn.au Brisbane Storm Chasers http://www.bsch.simplenet.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------------------------------ X-Sender: jra at upnaway.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:26:50 +0800 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Ira Fehlberg Subject: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I went to have a look at the damage today and I just spoke with the guys at severe weather here at the Perth BOM. Its confirmed as an F-0 tornado (again) Not alot of damage, bit of a roof off here, tree branches off there, ra ra ra. We get 5 or 6 of these every year so its hard to get too excited about them. The track runs for about three streets and I'd say most of the damage would have been from debri after the initial touch down. It would have been down on the ground for 2ish mins max. Basically it would have touched down as gone back up almost straight away. These type of tornado happen very fast, like the ones i saw two weeks ago. You have to see it to know what i mean. Its all over very quickly. Im abit spewing cause Im working in Kenwick atm which is all of 10k away from it and i started at 7:30am. The tornado was just after 7:00am. As i was driving down i did see the storm and stopped to take a few pics of it but i never saw the tornado. Bummer, oh well thats 5 reported naders here in WA 3 weeks, a slow start to winter but its picking up now. Ira Fehlberg At 13:28 13/07/00 +0800, you wrote: > >Just saw the 1pm Channel 10 newsbreak, and their main story was about a >tornado hitting the Perth southern suburb of Thornlie. > >They didn't say very much about it, as it was only a brief newsbreak, but >they said about 8 homes were damaged. > >We're also getting close to our average July rainfall, and we're still in >the first half of the month, we've currently had 153.6mm this month, the >average is 173mm. > >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------------------------------ > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "Ben Quinn" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:23:59 +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 I was watching perth radar and webcams when this tornado occured - and i have to say i was amazed to hear this report when i got home this afternoon... there was a distinct line of activity on radar, but geeze you wouldn't think there would be a tornado in it! goes to show what extremely high shear does For those interested, here is all the stuff i saved (webcam images and broad/local scale radar for the time the tornado occured) http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/ben/perth2/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Ira Fehlberg To: Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 7:02 AM Subject: RE: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie > > Just goes to show how isolated tornadoes are. > > Ira > > At 17:16 13/07/00 +1000, you wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >Talked to my folks who happen to live in... Thornlie, Perth. They > >knew nothing of this - so not in their part of Thornlie at least. > > > >Mum said that they had a terrific storm this morning at about 7:00 > >am - one flash of lightning and one roll of thunder and a bit > >of wind that blew all the dead leaves off the trees... Oh and some > >rain. Dad said it was a bit of a fizzer after the warnings and > >absolutely nothing like a tornado. My Aunt who leaves in another > >part of Thornlie said it was nothing at all. > > > >Well I guess they will be surprised when they watch the Ch 10 news > >a bit later. > > > >John. > >>snip > > > >Subject: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie > > > >Just saw the 1pm Channel 10 newsbreak, and their main story was about a > >tornado hitting the Perth southern suburb of Thornlie. > > > >They didn't say very much about it, as it was only a brief newsbreak, but > >they said about 8 homes were damaged. > > > >We're also getting close to our average July rainfall, and we're still in > >the first half of the month, we've currently had 153.6mm this month, the > >average is 173mm. > > > >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------------------------------ > > > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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: "John Woodbridge" To: Subject: RE: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:16:04 +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 All, Talked to my folks who happen to live in... Thornlie, Perth. They knew nothing of this - so not in their part of Thornlie at least. Mum said that they had a terrific storm this morning at about 7:00 am - one flash of lightning and one roll of thunder and a bit of wind that blew all the dead leaves off the trees... Oh and some rain. Dad said it was a bit of a fizzer after the warnings and absolutely nothing like a tornado. My Aunt who leaves in another part of Thornlie said it was nothing at all. Well I guess they will be surprised when they watch the Ch 10 news a bit later. John. >snip Subject: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie Just saw the 1pm Channel 10 newsbreak, and their main story was about a tornado hitting the Perth southern suburb of Thornlie. They didn't say very much about it, as it was only a brief newsbreak, but they said about 8 homes were damaged. We're also getting close to our average July rainfall, and we're still in the first half of the month, we've currently had 153.6mm this month, the average is 173mm. 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------------------------------ X-Sender: jra at upnaway.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 05:02:16 +0800 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Ira Fehlberg Subject: RE: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Just goes to show how isolated tornadoes are. Ira At 17:16 13/07/00 +1000, you wrote: >Hi All, > >Talked to my folks who happen to live in... Thornlie, Perth. They >knew nothing of this - so not in their part of Thornlie at least. > >Mum said that they had a terrific storm this morning at about 7:00 >am - one flash of lightning and one roll of thunder and a bit >of wind that blew all the dead leaves off the trees... Oh and some >rain. Dad said it was a bit of a fizzer after the warnings and >absolutely nothing like a tornado. My Aunt who leaves in another >part of Thornlie said it was nothing at all. > >Well I guess they will be surprised when they watch the Ch 10 news >a bit later. > >John. >>snip > >Subject: aus-wx: Tornado reported in Perth suburb of Thornlie > >Just saw the 1pm Channel 10 newsbreak, and their main story was about a >tornado hitting the Perth southern suburb of Thornlie. > >They didn't say very much about it, as it was only a brief newsbreak, but >they said about 8 homes were damaged. > >We're also getting close to our average July rainfall, and we're still in >the first half of the month, we've currently had 153.6mm this month, the >average is 173mm. > >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------------------------------ > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:30:57 +1000 From: Keith Barnett X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Safe travelling Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I must admit it's been a couple of years since I last used UHF and probably 15 years since I used 27MHz so I don't know whether things have got worse. I know what you mean about the wankers. It's best to avoid the repeaters and just find a channel somewhere else. I used to find UHF was a good bit more civilised. With the abolition of compulsory licensing perhaps it's degenerated. Nowadays my 16 foot UHF aerial is just a lightning arrestor (so far hasn't been struck since 21st January 1991...!). Of course I guess one could use amateur radio but how many people would be qualified? If the storm chasers are in the country I doubt there would be as many fruitcakes on the CB there as there are in the city. John Graham wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Keith Barnett > To: > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 7:33 PM > Subject: Re: aus-wx: Safe travelling > > > The appropriate etiquette is that one should first check if the > > frequency is in use (get a high spot for UHF), or, if the frequency's > > being used, call breaker and ask for permission to transmit, preferably > > by way of arranging another frequency can tell you from experience here > > it's extremely annoying when people just walk all over you without even > > the courtesy of a warning (except where obvious line-of-sight > > transmissions aren't there and you don't know the channel's in use). > [snip] > That's true Keith, but how many times have you put in a breaker & got told > to ! at #$^%$ ??????.....there are people out there who will let you in on a > channel, but in my years working skip on cb, & listening to the phantom > farters, jammers, music men etc. on uhf repeters, there's a lot of wankers > out there....... :-) > John > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:36:05 +1000 From: Keith Barnett X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cold Morning Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Jimmy , I presume that was the air (ie not the terrestrial minimum) temperature? If so, how high above the ground was it? Did you record a terrestrial minimum? By way of unworthy comparison I had -3.6 on the ground here this morning (I'm 83m above sealable) with a minimum of (+) 1.5 in the Stevenson screen. Not the coldest on record for the grass but getting close for the screen temp.. Jimmy Deguara wrote: > > Hi all, > > I can say that even though it must have had been very cold in some areas > this morning, I awoke and looked out the window - wiping the moisture from > the inside of the window and the lawn was bright white. I went down near > the dam and measured a temperature of -4.6 definitely the coldest morning > this winter. It was interesting watching the probe temperature vary as a > light fog came through ie the temperature would fall a little. I have taken > pictures but I know from experience frost is difficult to photograph for > true white colour. > > 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------------------------------ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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: "James Chambers" To: "aus-wx" Subject: aus-wx: Chase Report: 10/07/00 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:03:32 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all I just finished adding a report to the video captures I uploaded. You can go to my homepage and follow the links: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm.html or you can go directly to the report at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm/reports/july10_00.html I'll be adding links to future storm reports of this event as they come online. I've also added a few photos to the October 13, 1998 Brisbane tornadic supercell report - these were sent to me and are of a damaged warehouse at Hendra: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm/reports/oct13_98.html Enjoy. Regards James Chambers The Brisbane & SE Qld Storm Site http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm.html +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:51:47 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Australian Weather Mailing List Subject: aus-wx: Interesting Report from Last Monday's Storms in Brisbane Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, Took me a while to finally get around to writing this email! Craig Williams (ASWA QLD) phoned me yesterday to inform me about an interesting event. He commented on the frequent and relatively close CG's that occurred. Of most importance, was the CG that struck a tree about 10m from his house!!! He said that he heard a large buzzing noise before the strike, then the flash and instantaneous and very loud crack! Craig mentioned that it appears the water inside of the tree boiled and exploded looking at the tree, he also noted that there were bits of bark impaled into the ground. The damage? A fried network card to the cable modem...one would automatically assume that the strike got into underground cabling - but, his cable modem is fine, and the same with his cable television decoder (all on the same line)...all perfectly fine! I would have expected the modem, the decoder, TV, Computer etc all to explode, or at least be damaged! Perhaps some one can comment on the possibilities here? The rest of his computer is fine...the modem is fine, but the network card is fried. Possible EMP??? (Speculating!) Tony - do you know how the Energex network fared from the storms? -- 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 http://www.severeweather.asn.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------------------------------ X-Sender: jdeguara at pop.ihug.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:37:49 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Jimmy Deguara Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cold Morning Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Keith, I went down towards the dam which is lower than the house. The probe was not in a Stevenson Screen but still about 60cm off the ground hanging on a dead plant. In the time I was down there, ice crystals developed on the probe.The ground temp was similar about -4.5C. The effects of the buildings meant that closer to the house and higher ground but still in the open, the temp was around -1.6 to about -2C. The frost was on all grass even on the roofs of houses. Quite a spectacular morning. Even from the amount of frost, it was a typical -4C observation. Just for interest sake, our place gets as high as 64m altitude but falls to about 30m in the valley part behind the dam. The frost was still on the grass at 8:30am but in the shade. Cars were going past on the road with frost on the roofs. And besides, I just checked the minimum for Richmond which was -4C. Jimmy Deguara At 19:36 13/07/00 +1000, you wrote: >Jimmy , I presume that was the air (ie not the terrestrial minimum) >temperature? If so, how high above the ground was it? >Did you record a terrestrial minimum? > >By way of unworthy comparison I had -3.6 on the ground here this morning >(I'm 83m above sealable) with a minimum of (+) 1.5 in the Stevenson >screen. Not the coldest on record for the grass but getting close for >the screen temp.. > >Jimmy Deguara wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I can say that even though it must have had been very cold in some areas > > this morning, I awoke and looked out the window - wiping the moisture from > > the inside of the window and the lawn was bright white. I went down near > > the dam and measured a temperature of -4.6 definitely the coldest morning > > this winter. It was interesting watching the probe temperature vary as a > > light fog came through ie the temperature would fall a little. I have taken > > pictures but I know from experience frost is difficult to photograph for > > true white colour. > > > > 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------------------------------ > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- 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------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:51:42 +1000 From: MSC - Jane ONeill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: Aussie-wx Subject: aus-wx: Safe travelling / internet cafes Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com John & all, Re the discussion about CB use....I haven't found anyone using Channel 33 much at all anywhere in my travels (from W Victoria to Sthn Queensland) ......and one of the best ways of discouraging 'wandering chatter-upperers' btw is to let them know that you are currently in the middle of discussing adiabatic lapse rates..about that point they will ask you 'what the f%#* are they?" - and you never hear from them again!! More resources for the intrepid chaser..... A recently updated list of internet cafes around Australia can be found at http://www.netcafeguide.com/australia.htm ...and then there are the public libraries........ Carrying a notebook computer connected to a mobile phone is ok so long as you have the money & the patience to cope with 9600baud speeds, and connecting your notebook to someone else's phone line is ok if you offer to pay their bill for the call, but remember that if using a landline in a motel, the cost will go through the roof because they meter their calls every 60 seconds but you will be able to download a heck of a lot faster than with your mobile phone - it makes the <$10phr charged by the internet cafes look very attractive!! The notebook is great as a backup..... Jane -------------------------------- Jane ONeill cadence at rubix.net.au Melbourne Storm Chasers http://www.rubix.net.au/~cadence soon to be http://www.stormchasers.au.com ASWA - Victoria http://www.severeweather.asn.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: "Michael Thompson" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cold outbreak next week ? Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:39:01 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com The latest GASP run has pulled way back.. booo.hiss. but there is still a massive blob sitting just SW of Tasmania on the forecast model for next Wednesday. Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Tobin To: Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2000 22:51 Subject: Re: aus-wx: Cold outbreak next week ? > I hope you're right Michael - it's been a bit quiet for cold air since the > late May outbreak. > > I note it is currently rather cool in eastern NSW this evening. > > Some of the 10pm (12z) temps include: Canberra -1, Bathurst 0, Cooma -4, > Goulburn -3, Orange -7, Parkes 0, Young -2. Even in the coastal districts we > have Camden 2, and Wollongong 3. > > With the surface temps currently below freezing, it is interesting to > speculate what might happen in Canberra if the cloud band (with some rain > patches) from the decaying front arrives overnight while the temps stay low. > Could make tomorrow morning's drive to work pretty challenging... > > The above "interesting" outcome is however unlikely: > > 1) the cloud band is dissipating rapidly and is unlikely to reach us in any > form; > 2) in the remote chance that the rain band arrives, I think the inversion > would be too shallow to survive a small amount of mixing associated with the > arrival of a rain band. > > Still with the current low temps around, you just never know what might > eventuate. > > I suspect the most likely outcome will be a further thickening of the > developing fog(s) and some very nice rhime frost on the trees and grasses > similar to this morning (with min of -5). If the cloud band survives to > reach here as patches of middle level cloud, the fog may take most of the > day to clear so there may be some low maximum temps around as well. > > Patrick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Thompson > To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2000 21:07 > Subject: aus-wx: Cold outbreak next week ? > > > >It's only very early days so do not get too excited. > > > >But some of the models are hinting at a major outbreak of cold next Tues - > >Wed. > > > >GASP, NGP and MRF all hint towards 5400 thickness to come well over SE > >Australia. Unlike the last couple of fronts the 5280 is not far behind and > >may affect us too. > > > >GASP has an intense low of 964mb SW of Tasmania on Tuesday with the cold > air > >coming up behind it. There is a lovely jet coming up from way down near > >Antarctica driving it all too. > > > >Michael Thompson > >http://thunder.simplenet.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------------------------------ > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > 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------------------------------