Archive for June, 2008
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Michael,
Just under a week to go before the couple arrive onto Australian soil. It still seems like an eternity. I can probably stand waiting more for a tornado than waiting for Imelda and Kim to arrive. Oh well - the time will come. Obviously the few things high on the agenda - getting final wedding [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by jdeguara
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Hi Jimmy - can sympathise with the amount of extra work that you have to do with school. Alison has been working on student reports for the past three weeks. Sure takes a lot of effort. At least you’ll have two weeks off very soon !
How long till Imelda and Kim arrive - must be [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by Michael Bath
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Michael,
Good luck in your new job - I hope it goes well. I can’t believe that New Zealand is taking over a number of contracts from Australia including those in the weather arena. But this is the way things are traversing on the international stage. Outsourcing has made job security vulnerable.
I continue to teach and have [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by jdeguara
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Hi Jimmy,
The Tasman low continues to whip up surf and seas, and produce some strong winds along the coast but little else. The models forecast the system quite well with the cold air and snow confined mainly to the Victorian Alpine area as the front passed through a couple of days ago. Looks like this [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by Michael Bath
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Michael,
Mild day here today. Yesterday there was some early rain and then it all cleared. Cloud once again increased today. Not sure if rain is coming through overnight. Nevertheless, the rain will clear if it does occur as the cold front nears.
School continues to be busy - probably too busy for my liking - has unnecessarily too [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by jdeguara
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Hi Jimmy,
Picked up about 150mm from the event last week with about half of that falling on Monday night. Some local flooding occurrred but no big problems. Rodney and I had our first flood watch since that night after officially joining the SES earlier this year. We have been undertaking regional headquarters training for the [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by Michael Bath
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Michael
We had some useful falls of rain here and it is still cloudy and cool. Obviously some minor or localised flooding in the regions up north and it is good that for once in a long while, southeast Queensland has had some useful rainfall and the water restrictions may disappear.It was a ridiculous severe drought.
Things [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Storm Chasing by jdeguara
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Jimmy - the weather patterns over the east of the country continue to suprise with the development of upper troughs and surface patterns showing disregard to the model forecasts :) The latest output from GFS and LAPS this afternoon has quite different scenarios for the next 48 to 72 hours. At least some parts of [...]
