Hi,
After a very warm day with gusty winds, the storms moved in during the night about 9-10pm. Being so high based, the storms moved rather rapidly and are already off the coast as I type. There were a few anvil crawlers and moderately frequent lightning flashes lighting up the sky. The rain was heavy but only for a couple of brief bursts.
See : 128km Radar Loop for Sydney (Terrey Hills), 05:00 28/09/2012 to 13:00 28/09/2012 UTC
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
Did anyone get some lightning pictures or captures from the anvil crawlers tonight?
Did anyone get some lightning pictures or captures from the anvil crawlers tonight? There were some decent lightning before the main rain came through. It is still raining and we should get some decent much needed rain before it clears to the northeast in the early hours of the morning.
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
ended up rain obscured down here in the Illawarra, nothing but a strobefest :( could see a lot of activity going on though
Sounds good!
nice to watch a pain to photograph apart from the odd bolt making an appearance better then absolutely nothing
This is what I told Colin this evening who chases near Penrith. Better than nothing – this afternoon looked depressing haha in comparison.
it sure did, I made the rainy squalls call in the past few days noticing how later models were calling on a precip contaminated environment as opposed to a pre-storm for most areas and must say EC did not do too badly at picking up the cloud amounts, it was not far off the money at all, definitely way better then 8/8 powder blue and SW'lies *shudders*
Problems and frustrations with GFS is that the moisture is being over forecast. I picked up on this and predicted higher based storms.
which was also spot on GFS does overcook the moisture, its annoying, anything isolated in front of the squall band was high based very good call there too Jimmy :)
I went out to Orange with my friend Lance. The problem we faced was thickening cirrus cloud and the encroaching rain band to the south and west. Surprisingly, we located a boundary ahead of the rain band, then followed it back towards Sydney where cumulus clouds did build. Much of it was embedded within the cloud mass. We found a weak storm cell north of Bathurst but it moved too quick. It passed south over Mt Lambie. Embedded cumulonimbus towers did build around Lithgow but not worth chasing. We arrived back in Sydney just in time for the late evening storm event.
Hi Harley Pearman yes it was a trick event of sorts. Most of the ingredients were there although moisture was an issue.
Did anyone get some lightning pictures or captures from the anvil crawlers tonight?
ended up rain obscured down here in the Illawarra, nothing but a strobefest :( could see a lot of activity going on though
Sounds good!
nice to watch a pain to photograph apart from the odd bolt making an appearance better then absolutely nothing
This is what I told Colin this evening who chases near Penrith. Better than nothing – this afternoon looked depressing haha in comparison.
it sure did, I made the rainy squalls call in the past few days noticing how later models were calling on a precip contaminated environment as opposed to a pre-storm for most areas and must say EC did not do too badly at picking up the cloud amounts, it was not far off the money at all, definitely way better then 8/8 powder blue and SW’lies *shudders*
Problems and frustrations with GFS is that the moisture is being over forecast. I picked up on this and predicted higher based storms.
which was also spot on GFS does overcook the moisture, its annoying, anything isolated in front of the squall band was high based very good call there too Jimmy :)
I went out to Orange with my friend Lance. The problem we faced was thickening cirrus cloud and the encroaching rain band to the south and west. Surprisingly, we located a boundary ahead of the rain band, then followed it back towards Sydney where cumulus clouds did build. Much of it was embedded within the cloud mass. We found a weak storm cell north of Bathurst but it moved too quick. It passed south over Mt Lambie. Embedded cumulonimbus towers did build around Lithgow but not worth chasing. We arrived back in Sydney just in time for the late evening storm event.
Hi @[1483384107:2048:Harley Pearman] yes it was a trick event of sorts. Most of the ingredients were there although moisture was an issue.