Daily Weather Stuff 2010 - for the 'in-between' days

[Michael Fewings]

Happy new year to all and what a present we had last night for the new year.

8mm of rain and up to pea sized hail all in about 5 minutes.

Lightning strikes within a km and lots of lightning flashes (about 5 seconds apart at one stage overhead)

Looks like there were spotty falls around with most places with 6mm and occasionally more.

Pretty good based on an original forecast of fine. But really have to agree with the BOM and their forecast. A bit more heating than expected in the lower levels and it broke through. The trough formed quite a productive line all the way from Victoria down.

Anyone else have a good show last night that wasn't man made

Photos for all (pretty ordinary but they are hand held QFR - quick finger reflex so not a bad outcome really)

The last one was about 1.5 km away just over the hill. Looks like a day time photo.

[Weather Wally]

had no height or view from where i was.








Typically lost focus at the wrong time...




rain to the left, struck a minute later




Moving east and away

[Michael Fewings]

WW they are very nice pics.

What a bugger about the focus on the 2 beauties. Well at least it is not the one that got away with no evidence!! We know what could have been.

They show up the very heavy rain shaft well.

[Kelly McGill]

Captured these from our back deck in Lenah Valley.. I love the crawler!

[David Simpson]

Nice stuff WW, Mike and Kelly, I was at a party in Norwood, an elevated position so we could see a lot of CC and some CG action, but mostly distant strobing to the west and south. Glad you had a better show down that way.

[Michael Fewings]

Wow Kelly

Nice pics!!

Also like the crawler as well.

Looks very summery.

[Michael Fewings]

Big weather event coming up on Sunday to Monday.

Low, winds, rain and likely some thunderstorms to proceed it all.

Looks like all models are now agreeing with a low forming right over the top of Tassie and moving NE from there. Should be some ripper winds on the west coast or NW coast or possibly in the SE if the low forms further east than currently expected.

Won't start a thread on it just yet. Give the models one more day to finalise themselves for the trip.

[David Simpson]

Took these last night from our deck, looking towards Mt Barrow:

[Michael Fewings]

Wowsers.

Lightning!!!

Great picks David and nice to see a show for you.

[Michael Fewings]

Might get around 25 mm from this event down this way.

Looks pretty good for the top of the island. Might slow down a few of the fires burning but will leave that for another forum thread.

What are other Peoples thoughts about the amount of rain they will get?

[Stale fish]

Hi MF, hoping for a good storm tonight and maybe 20-30mm.

Weatherzone had possible Severe storms for Tas tonight.

Post more later.

[Sam T]

The BOM website sows that Mt Barrow has recieved 75mm since 9am. Do you think that this is accurate?

[Stale fish]

It's possible Sam as Liaweene has had 42mm and Ouse has had 10.8mm tonight which is geat for the fires.

[wingtipvortex2]

Good evening, has just started to rain lightly here Precip seemed to be slipping away to the west for the last few hours on the radar, but its coming together a bit in the last 30 mins or so.

Will we get 20+mills SF? its looking pretty good atm

[TonyO]

great photos guys!!!it was an awesome week of storms!
Raining here steady with 0.6mm in last 10min ,very nice to hear after these hot dry days,I think your right MF 20-30mm not out of the question with a slow moving rain band could be some good totals,I think its the nights that are the most uncomfortable 23.8here last night and 32.8degrees today .

[TonyO]

27.6mm here, eased off during the night grove picked up 44mm only 2km away!!!

[Michael Fewings]

well. that was more than I though. Nice to have it that way a well.

Ended up with 35.8mm this morning (7am) and 76mm for the year to date.

The last few days of heat have just knocked off most of the green grass around here but it was not past recovery which means another couple of weeks of green grass if it does not rain again before then.

Just read your post TonyO and amazing that grove got 44mm.

[Stale fish]

22mm here, Kingston had 16mm and a nice 112mm at Mt Barrow!

[wingtipvortex2]

Just watching a little lightning show NNW at the moment. No thunder that i can hear, might get a small thundery shower in the next hour or two

[David Simpson]

This lingering trough is starting to pay dividends here, 26.5mm overnight, most welcome!