Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Michael,
Well storms have slowly returned here. I was surprised yesterday when I looked to my southeast just for a rest from the work on the computer and I saw a pileus on top a tower and mature storm in progress! Earlier, it seemed there were cumulus towers but that’s about it - they seemed to be struggling.
This [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by jdeguara
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Hi Jimmy,
It has been nice to see thunderstorms return to the region with today Friday being the third in a row. Although activity locally has been fairly weak so far, some significant storms with hail are likely to have occurred mainly on the eastern Northern Tablelands and parts of the Darling Downs.
Looks like Nambucca Heads [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by Michael Bath
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Michael,
Glad to have gotten through this week leveling out any hitches. Some interesting events arising earlier in the week. Suffice to say one cannot become too complacent in this chaotic world of idiocracy amongst some members of the Australian weather community. I am glad that we have a small group of sane, well groomed and [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by jdeguara
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Hi Jimmy - Another week passes and the weather patterns remain blocked. A few coastal showers and days into the high 20s have been the result.
Of course the main result of the blocking high in the Tasman has been the extraordinary heatwave over southeast states. Adelaide has broken a number of temperature records including the [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by Michael Bath
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Michael,
The weather has become rather monotonous. In fact, I hardly have spent time of late following models and trying to predict any severe weather. This afternoon there was some severe weather down on the Southern Tablelands west of Nowra. It turned out to be rather warm today as well.
I guess the big thing at the [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by jdeguara
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Hi Jimmy - boy time flies when there is nothing to report ! We had a couple of warm days the previous weekend with a shock 36C on Sat 23rd Feb, before a southerly late morning brought things back to normal - well ‘normal’ for this season which has been dominated by Autumn patterns. Overnight [...]
