Over the last couple of days (yesterday and today) there has been some rather interesting weather action in the form of thunderstorms, some of which were severe. These were caused largely because of low pressure troughs passing over NSW, creating an unstable atmosphere - as i speak now, the town of Captains flat is being hit by a nasty storm with moderate rainfall, with possible hail (A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for Large Hailstones).
Up North in the Coral Sea, A cyclone has formed. Tropical Cyclone Guba (a name given by Port Moresby Cyclone Warning Centre) formed on the 15th, and has been rather erratic and slow moving. It briefly reached severe intensity on the Friday, before ecountering some wind shear, which caused it to weaken. Cyclone Guba is a very small and compact storm, and is a cyclone as i speak.
Will post more later.
Chris die wettermann.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Some weather news...
I thought it was time to post again, and its getting rather interesting in the Australian weather scene, so I'll be devoting most of this post to the weather!!
Last week, there was a lot of rain - In cherrybrook, where i live, it rained quite substantially, with over 100mm in the first 11 days of November. The rain in the Sydney metropolitan cleared on Saturday (10th Nov 2007) and since then it has been mostly fine, with a few cloudy periods.
The Sydney Catchment Authority's dams went up +0.4% when the weekly report was issued on Thursday 8th November (last Thursday), due to slow moving thunderstorms and rain periods and heavy slow moving showers.
The rain and thunderstorms affected most of the state at some point during the first week or so of November, this was due to a number of troughs of low pressure and moist airstreams, providing abundant moisture and significant instability, resulting in some quite large rainfall totals at a number of locations.
A few of them were in 24 hours to 9am, the date in brackets next to the rainfall location:
Mt Seaview, Inland near Kempsey - 73mm (Saturday 3rd)
Camden Airport (near picton) - 66mm (Saturday 3rd)
Warragamba (township?) - 53mm (Saturday 3rd)
Lismore Aiport AWS - 49mm (Saturday 3rd)
Albury - Wodonga - 54mm (Sunday 4th)
Albury Airport AWS - 53mm (Sunday 4th)
Lockhart(Riverina area) - 52mm (Sunday 4th)
Temora Airport AWS - 50mm (Sunday 4th)
Cootamundra Airport - 38mm (Sunday 4th)
Cooma Visitors Centre - 22mm (Sunday 4th) - notable fall, as cooma lies in a rain shadow and does not recieve much rain.
This week, while the weather in NSW is mostly dry apart from some storms expected to develop around mid week in a few areas of the state, most of the action lies with wet season swinging into gear, and there is a Ocean warning out for the coral sea for a developing tropical low, which has crossed over the southern part of Papua new guinea and is now expected to develop further possibly to cyclone status while moving slowly westwards towards the Cape York Peninsula - if this does develop into a cyclone, this would become Tropical Cyclone Rebecca and the first cyclone for the season and only 14 days after the cyclone season has started.
Keep you posted on this developing low and other weather matters,
Chris, die wettermann.
Last week, there was a lot of rain - In cherrybrook, where i live, it rained quite substantially, with over 100mm in the first 11 days of November. The rain in the Sydney metropolitan cleared on Saturday (10th Nov 2007) and since then it has been mostly fine, with a few cloudy periods.
The Sydney Catchment Authority's dams went up +0.4% when the weekly report was issued on Thursday 8th November (last Thursday), due to slow moving thunderstorms and rain periods and heavy slow moving showers.
The rain and thunderstorms affected most of the state at some point during the first week or so of November, this was due to a number of troughs of low pressure and moist airstreams, providing abundant moisture and significant instability, resulting in some quite large rainfall totals at a number of locations.
A few of them were in 24 hours to 9am, the date in brackets next to the rainfall location:
Mt Seaview, Inland near Kempsey - 73mm (Saturday 3rd)
Camden Airport (near picton) - 66mm (Saturday 3rd)
Warragamba (township?) - 53mm (Saturday 3rd)
Lismore Aiport AWS - 49mm (Saturday 3rd)
Albury - Wodonga - 54mm (Sunday 4th)
Albury Airport AWS - 53mm (Sunday 4th)
Lockhart(Riverina area) - 52mm (Sunday 4th)
Temora Airport AWS - 50mm (Sunday 4th)
Cootamundra Airport - 38mm (Sunday 4th)
Cooma Visitors Centre - 22mm (Sunday 4th) - notable fall, as cooma lies in a rain shadow and does not recieve much rain.
This week, while the weather in NSW is mostly dry apart from some storms expected to develop around mid week in a few areas of the state, most of the action lies with wet season swinging into gear, and there is a Ocean warning out for the coral sea for a developing tropical low, which has crossed over the southern part of Papua new guinea and is now expected to develop further possibly to cyclone status while moving slowly westwards towards the Cape York Peninsula - if this does develop into a cyclone, this would become Tropical Cyclone Rebecca and the first cyclone for the season and only 14 days after the cyclone season has started.
Keep you posted on this developing low and other weather matters,
Chris, die wettermann.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
hello again
Good Afternoon everyone!!
This is my first post in ages, so it won't that long, but hopefully not too short!
A few issues/reasons or excuses for not blogging that prevented me to blog, or gave me no reason to blog for the time being - my emotional wellbeing, lack of exciting and/or extreme weather stories until last week, when a series of storms developed for most of the week, not feeling like to post and just forgeting about my blog all together.
You see, without recieving in comments or reminders lately to blog, i've not thought about it in a long time and made me practically forget about the blog that I used to spend so much time on!!
Also, the novelty tends to wear off after a while, and it can be a real struggle when you have nothing in particular to talk about.
WEATHER NEWS:
during last week, a couple of troughs of low pressure lingered and moved over the NE of NSW for most of the week, resulting in storms for most of the week, with the last band of storms developing on Friday of last week.
A substanial number of Severe Thunderstorm warnings were issued in particular for the NE area of the state, for potentially damaging winds and large hailstones.
A number of reports of hail were reported during last week throughout the state, with the largest hail coming from a particularly intense and severe storm, which passed directly over the big town of Lismore.
The storm passed over the town around 2pm on Tuesday the 9th October (last Tuesday), unleashing gale force wind gusts, and hail up to the size of tennis balls, and covering the ground, making it look like snow. Very heavy rain also fell, about 32mm from this storm.
The hail destroyed house windows and damaged other parts of houses such as roof tiles, and damaged cars, leaving dents in the car, and smashing car windows.
The town was declared a state of emergency the next day, with the storm leaving a massive repair bill, in the millions.
Not much else has been happening, feeling quite miserable at times, with not alot I would like to do in my recent TAFE break. All i did was watched movies and brought some movies for my collection, which suppose is exciting...
Didn't have alot of social contact during the holidays, due to my friends being busy with uni and other stuff...
talk later, i've had enough of talking......
This is my first post in ages, so it won't that long, but hopefully not too short!
A few issues/reasons or excuses for not blogging that prevented me to blog, or gave me no reason to blog for the time being - my emotional wellbeing, lack of exciting and/or extreme weather stories until last week, when a series of storms developed for most of the week, not feeling like to post and just forgeting about my blog all together.
You see, without recieving in comments or reminders lately to blog, i've not thought about it in a long time and made me practically forget about the blog that I used to spend so much time on!!
Also, the novelty tends to wear off after a while, and it can be a real struggle when you have nothing in particular to talk about.
WEATHER NEWS:
during last week, a couple of troughs of low pressure lingered and moved over the NE of NSW for most of the week, resulting in storms for most of the week, with the last band of storms developing on Friday of last week.
A substanial number of Severe Thunderstorm warnings were issued in particular for the NE area of the state, for potentially damaging winds and large hailstones.
A number of reports of hail were reported during last week throughout the state, with the largest hail coming from a particularly intense and severe storm, which passed directly over the big town of Lismore.
The storm passed over the town around 2pm on Tuesday the 9th October (last Tuesday), unleashing gale force wind gusts, and hail up to the size of tennis balls, and covering the ground, making it look like snow. Very heavy rain also fell, about 32mm from this storm.
The hail destroyed house windows and damaged other parts of houses such as roof tiles, and damaged cars, leaving dents in the car, and smashing car windows.
The town was declared a state of emergency the next day, with the storm leaving a massive repair bill, in the millions.
Not much else has been happening, feeling quite miserable at times, with not alot I would like to do in my recent TAFE break. All i did was watched movies and brought some movies for my collection, which suppose is exciting...
Didn't have alot of social contact during the holidays, due to my friends being busy with uni and other stuff...
talk later, i've had enough of talking......
Monday, September 3, 2007
Hello, I'm back.... Hello World!!
After last week not being the best, today (Monday) i'm not feeling too bad considering i have a test tomorrow (*groan*) and hand a assignment in (finally!)
I'm hoping to blog here more often now, and hoping that i'll be in the right moods to blog!!
there will be weather stories and other fun stuff...
WEATHER NEWS: With that very heavy rain two weeks ago, major flooding occured in Noosa and surrounding Areas(on the QLD Sunshine Coast, i think!), as the Noosa River broke its bank after very rainfall in the area, including an all time August rainfall record - the Highest daily rainfall for Australia for August - somewhere in the vicinity of 800 mm in 24 hours at a place called Rainbow Beach. I will confirm these details in a later post (not too later post, i hope!).
With those heavy rainfall totals reported in Northern NSW during the same event, which I posted in the last blog post, minor to moderate flooding occured in parts of some northern NSW river systems, including Moderate Flooding on the Orara River, which starts inland from Coffs Harbour. On the Orara River, the town of Glenreagh, inland of Coffs Harbour, was inudated with moderate flooding. Three other river systems in northern NSW also had flood warnings issued - these being the Macleay, the Bellinger and i think the Hastings River systems - flooding did not occur on all these systems.
And August this year was the warmest August in 12 years, the last August being in 1995.
More weather stories to follow,
Chris the Weather man
I'm hoping to blog here more often now, and hoping that i'll be in the right moods to blog!!
there will be weather stories and other fun stuff...
WEATHER NEWS: With that very heavy rain two weeks ago, major flooding occured in Noosa and surrounding Areas(on the QLD Sunshine Coast, i think!), as the Noosa River broke its bank after very rainfall in the area, including an all time August rainfall record - the Highest daily rainfall for Australia for August - somewhere in the vicinity of 800 mm in 24 hours at a place called Rainbow Beach. I will confirm these details in a later post (not too later post, i hope!).
With those heavy rainfall totals reported in Northern NSW during the same event, which I posted in the last blog post, minor to moderate flooding occured in parts of some northern NSW river systems, including Moderate Flooding on the Orara River, which starts inland from Coffs Harbour. On the Orara River, the town of Glenreagh, inland of Coffs Harbour, was inudated with moderate flooding. Three other river systems in northern NSW also had flood warnings issued - these being the Macleay, the Bellinger and i think the Hastings River systems - flooding did not occur on all these systems.
And August this year was the warmest August in 12 years, the last August being in 1995.
More weather stories to follow,
Chris the Weather man
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
A bit about me!!
For those who haven't read it yet, i've put a link below this that has a little about me, which seems highly appropriate since i turned 20 just a few hours ago:
http://chrisweatherandmisc.blogspot.com/2007/08/9-days-to-go.html
btw, PLEASE leave comments - i do actually read them!! :-)
Chris the 20 year old!
http://chrisweatherandmisc.blogspot.com/2007/08/9-days-to-go.html
btw, PLEASE leave comments - i do actually read them!! :-)
Chris the 20 year old!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
You say its your birthday!!
YAY!!
It's finally my birthday - hooray!! I turn 20 this evening!! :-)
That's if anyone still reads this... everyone has gone to facebook i think... its so sad! :-(
I can tell... my number of hits are slowing down, now.
Anyone who reads this, please comment - ta!!
Chris the Birthday Boy!!
It's finally my birthday - hooray!! I turn 20 this evening!! :-)
That's if anyone still reads this... everyone has gone to facebook i think... its so sad! :-(
I can tell... my number of hits are slowing down, now.
Anyone who reads this, please comment - ta!!
Chris the Birthday Boy!!
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Very heavy Rainfall in NE NSW Mon 20 to Tues 21 Aug07
Torrential rainfall fell over large areas of NE NSW, from Kempsy in the South to near the QLD/NSW Border yesterday and last night. Though rain has begun to ease, there will still be more rainfall during today for these areas.
This is only a preliminary blog, mentioning a few of the more notable falls.
They include:
For the 24 hours to 9am Tues 21 Aug07
206mm at Dorrigo (West of Coffs Harbour)
171mm at Coffs Harbour Meteorological Office
232mm at Nambucca Heads (near Coffs Harbour)
133mm at Kempsey Airport
130mm at Grafton Airport
Keep you posted
Chris
This is only a preliminary blog, mentioning a few of the more notable falls.
They include:
For the 24 hours to 9am Tues 21 Aug07
206mm at Dorrigo (West of Coffs Harbour)
171mm at Coffs Harbour Meteorological Office
232mm at Nambucca Heads (near Coffs Harbour)
133mm at Kempsey Airport
130mm at Grafton Airport
Keep you posted
Chris
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