Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Hi Jimmy and family – how has the first week been as a dad? Hope you are managing to get some rest:) Alison is keen to see some more photos of Jimelle.
Weather has gone into a boring stagnant pattern with a HIGH over the Bight barely moving. The cold air aloft and associated instability has produced some ongoing showers on the eastern fringe with coastal storms observed most days in the past week or so (though mostly quite distant out in the East Coast Current). Last weekend managed to produce quite a number of waterspouts.
I’ve updated the Australian tornadoes page with some recent events including the waterspouts:
http://australiasevereweather.com/tornadoes_australia.htm
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Since your past post, there has been more flooding. The events you refer to were extraordinary and follow flooding in February. Now another flood event! And in all this Victoria continues deep into drought. I guess such contrasts are not uncommon in Australia but this drought in Victoria has been long lived with few short breaks.
The work you did on the tropical cyclone maps and since then the tropical cyclones main web page has added fresh looks and ideas on there well worth investigating. Well done on all you have done and I understand the immense amount work that goes into such projects.
Finally, I guess we are looking at the last month for Imelda’s pregancy and weekly visits to the hospital for the usual check ups. The scans at least show nothing abnormal and the weights are to be expected. Life will change with that birth and the added responsibility that comes with it!
Haven’t much chasing lately. The last chase was when I got this lightning shot across the road:
Jimmy
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Melbourne has experienced its hottest day on record of 46.4C which is not only a February record but an all time record surpassing the January 1939 figure of 45.7C. Furthermore, this record has now exceeded all records of any city around Australia. What an incredible event. The cooler change has hit Melbourne finally.
Here in Sydney, we have had heat for an extended period of time. In fact, it has been above the 30C for much of January and February thus far with some figures nearing and over 40C. It got to 42C today and tomorrow is no difference with similar temperatures expected before a southerly change that will finally ease the searing temperatures.
Jimmy
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