Michael,
The weather has been mostly settled and uneventful here in the eastern states. However, it is interesting to see the the severe weather in the southern states – some damaging winds which also produced a dust haze here for a couple of days. Last night the winds were howling and quite strong for while when I was awake.
Some nice cumulonimbus off the coast about mid afternoon today. I suspect frost from now onwards with this cold outbreak.
Jimmy
Finally a sigficant cold front for SE Australia after a few weeks of action focusing on Southwest West Australia.
The change should see widespread snowfalls to the Alpine areas – the ski resorts have certainly been waiting for this!.
GFS tips a low off the NSW south coast which may shoot a cold pool up the ranges. We could see some decent snowfalls across the Central and possibly Northern Tablelands.
Besides the snow and rain chances, gales and severe weather warnings are featuring in SA, NSW and VIC already.
Minor flood warnings were issued for the Orara and Bellinger rivers last night with the continuing rain.
Some moderate to heavy falls have occurred over SE QLD and NE NSW in the past 24 hours. Upper Springbrook on the QLD/NSW border tops the list with 154mm to 7am. A few sites in the Northern Rivers have topped the 100mm mark including Ballina and Evans Head.
There was some particularly heavy rain in the headwaters of the Wilsons River early evening (21st) which has resulted in the river passing the 7 metre mark at Eltham this morning. This is actually quite significant and would normally result in a flood warning for Lismore but rainfalls elsewhere in the catchment have been a lot lower. Regardless there is a flood along the Wilsons River and some roads are cut upstream from Lismore.
Rainfall totals since last Wednesday are now well over 200mm at many locations between Port Macquarie and the Gold Coast hinterland.
Michael
After some frost eariler in the week, it seems the rain pattern has set back in along the coastal region. Quite cool too. The frost was a little more severe than what you would expect for early June. Great snowfalls thus far in NSW and Victoria.
Meanwhile, the season in tornado alley has really begun to fire from a hailstone perspective with some giant hailstones being reported particularly in some serious supercells in Colorado. The high county in that region really produces some nice supercells and is renound for some serious hailstorms particularly during the latter part of the tornado season. Colorado has also reported some decent tornadoes as well.
Nevertheless, the season has been particularly bad with much less tornadoes reported compared to what is anticipated at this time of the year – apparently the worst since 1996.
Europe has had an incredible number of storms and tornadoes reported from France Germany, Hungary and even Russia! The footage from Hungary trashing the roof is some fo the best I have ever seen on video!
http://video.szon.hu/video/43421/pusztitas-csarodan
http://www.australiasevereweather.com/forum/general-weather-all-topics-that-are-not-current-severe-weather-should-be-posted-here/hailstorm-in-hungary/msg14380/#msg14380
Jimmy
Temperature got down to 5 this morning at McLeans Ridges, NSW which is about as low as it gets here. It reflects the cold airmass which has passed across Southeast Australia with widespread severe frosts in some parts this morning.
The best snowfalls Tuesday night and into Wednesday were largely confined to areas south of the Blue Mountains from what I can tell with some good falls along the southern ranges and alpine areas. A few flurries were reported from the Armidale area too.
