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RE: [austpacwx] A Cracker in Keilor!!! Bring it on [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-11-26T03:56:20Z

Current radar is certainly one of the more impressive I've seen - particularly the large areas of very intense rainfall. Could well see some 100m+ falls by 9am at this rate.

The area between Viewbank south through Scoresby seems to have copped it particularly bad in the recent sequence.

DJ
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Melbourne Squall Line [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-11-26T03:42:37Z

A squall line / Line Echo Wave Pattern just moved through Melbourne.
The primary threat emanated from a cell on its E end, associated
with a so-called "bookend vortex". I have attached a message I sent
earlier.

Harald

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The eastern bookend vortex cell has prospered (see attachment) with a fair amount

A Cracker in Keilor!!! Bring it on

2009-11-26T03:32:49Z

Hi All,

I haven't worked out how to post photo's directly on here, so will
attach with a reply.

For the first time in ages we had some dark red rain - short lived -
but visibility was down to 15 meters.

96 hours of this I can live with!!

RE: [austpacwx] Rain Potential - West Central Vic and Western Vic [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-11-25T20:16:40Z

Already some good falls showing up in the gauges... top scores so far are below.

This is an exceptional warm humid system so it's hard not to see some heavy falls developing. This arvo in particularly looks fantastic for wet storms with LI down to near -5 in central Vic and surface Dps into the low 20s. This mornings rain will help things along.

Rain Potential - West Central Vic and Western Vic

2009-11-25T19:48:02Z

Hi All,

Just browsing through the models this morning and in particular the GFS
Accumulated Precipitation Forecast. I usually ignore this model because
it is fairly unreliable but I cannot ignore it this morning. It shows a
belt of 100-125mm across west central vic (Geelong, Werribee, Laverton,

Weather News - Longer November heatwave 130 years ago

2009-11-24T04:01:12Z

Just saw this story on Weatherzone for anyone who is interested in reading it.

[link]

And more news of the Friday storm in this area - I read in todays local paper "The Manly Daily" that some houses in Bayview and Church Point were without power from the time of the storm on Friday until Sunday afternoon due to the huge amount of damage done to the power infrastructure.

Upper low cross-section

2009-11-23T02:34:54Z

For anyone interested, attached are a couple of plots re the mid/upper low due to spin up over the next couple of days. One is a cross-sectional vertical slice of temperatures for 10am Wed morning through the middle of the low from WA to QLD (I used a latitude of 27S to generate this plot). The other is a top-down view of the 500hpa heights (white contours), relative vorticity (shaded) and wind vectors at the 500hpa height (black arrows). Data is from the NCEP ensemble (mean values).

Stormchaser sacrifice....

2009-11-22T12:45:11Z

Evening all,

We always knew that if we left the state as a sacrifice to the weather gods
Victoria would get flooding rains.....so we bolted on Friday and were
delighted to see the falls you have had since then...

So while we're up here sacrificing ourselves for the good of the state, a
daily report of the weather in the Top End will appear on the link below for

Incredible Temperature Rises on the NSW Coast

2009-11-22T04:58:32Z

Hi All,

My attention has just been brought to some temperature rises, in
particular Bellambi which rose from 23.6c at 2pm to 37.5c at 2.42pm.
Not sure what the record temperature rising is for Australia, but that
could be close?

An extract from the Weather Station obs:

Date/Time

Inland flooding / more lows

2009-11-22T01:02:13Z

Some impressive totals progged for interior parts near the junctions of the QLD/NSW/SA/NT borders early this week to the E and S of the cutoff low. With >100 to 150mm progged and further falls likely in eastern SA (and elsewhere) later this week, will be interesting to see how much drainage there'll be into Lake Eyre as well as inland flooding.

Pittwater Storm

2009-11-20T08:56:03Z

Hi Everyone
This afternoon, a storm that looked like it was going to be nothing much, brought torrential rain to the Pittwater area and "rather interesting wind". The torrential rain missed our street only giving us 8mm in total.

There was minor flooding in Newport and Avalon, many trees down and even more broken off about 2 - 3 metres from the ground and many houses with roof damage. We got home to find minor damage to some of our bonsai plants and our neighbours TV aerial snapped and hanging by the wires.

Funny article re BoM site

2009-11-20T08:51:17Z

For anyone who hasn't read this news article on the popularity of the bureau's website yet, I found it amusing (but not surprising):

[link]

Ken.

Not very good shots but......

2009-11-20T08:00:11Z

I never had any kids on when I took these with my phone. For those who are politically correct. I'm not. Not real good but shows in places the wind and dust etc.

The wind was coming from a Westerly direction of course and I was heading north. Every time I opened the door to let the kids out there was a big influx of leaves and straw and dust, sticks etc. The bus looked grouse inside when I got home. NOT.

Bit hairy

2009-11-20T06:05:53Z

Due to the very dense dust I think, I only made it to 36.6 here today. As dusty and windy as now though. The temp has dropped back to 32.7 at present. And a 64kmh gust at 4.45pm. Just when I was coming home on the bus. They're hard work in the gusty wind that's for sure. They're basically just a big kite.

Unseasonably warm here, too!

2009-11-20T05:20:27Z

Hello Awesome Aussie Friends:
Well, we in Mena have been unseasonably warm as well--just not to the extent of the current Aussie heatwave.
Our average maximum for very rainy & cool month of October was only 64.6F/18.1C (normal October avg. max. is 73F/22.7C).
Through the first 16 days of November (Nov. 1-16) our avg. max. has been an amazing 69.4F/20.7C! (our normal avg. November max. is 60F/15.5C). If we average a max. of 59.2F/15.1C for the rest of November (14 days), November will actually be warmer than October---something which I don't think has happened here before.