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- by Ken
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:57 am
- Forum: International Weather Archives
- Topic: Amazing fog formation photos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8521
Some of you may have seen these photos already but if not, they're of amazing sheaths of fog being formed as moist air comes in from the sea and is forced to rise over the highrise buildings and beach at Panama City in Florida last Sunday. Just goes to show how sensitive and amazing the atmosphere r...
- by Ken
- Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:58 am
- Forum: Australian Weather Archives
- Topic: QUEENSLAND...Day to day weather talk
- Replies: 15
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We've actually removed that from the web for now pending further investigation because it looked suspect. EDIT: there was an impressive 52mm of rain in just 20mins at Laidley west of Brisbane at 3:20pm AEDST from severe thunderstorms. 45mm of rainfall was recorded in 30 minutes at Manly at 4:55pm. 4...
- by Ken
- Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:33 pm
- Forum: Australian Weather Archives
- Topic: Wet Season 2011/2012 - Queensland
- Replies: 46
- Views: 22521
It looks like the next 3 or so weeks may become spectacularly quiet across much of our tropics except the far northeast. The forecast MJO diagram from the EC ensemble currently shows a clear eastward movement of the current active MJO phase away from our continent. This also appears to be reflected ...
- by Ken
- Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:12 am
- Forum: Australian Weather Archives
- Topic: North QLD Area Weather
- Replies: 975
- Views: 317036
And as at 10pm tonight (Sat), the low was declared Cat 1 tropical cyclone Jasmine with a central pressure of 986hpa and 100 km SE of Willis Is.
- by Ken
- Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:48 pm
- Forum: Australian Weather Archives
- Topic: North QLD Area Weather
- Replies: 975
- Views: 317036
And as at 10pm tonight (Sat), the low was declared Cat 1 tropical cyclone Jasmine with a central pressure of 986hpa and 100 km SE of Willis Is. There were also reports on Sat from residents along the NE tropical coast today of winds "comparable to cyclone winds", uprooted trees and outdoor...
- by Ken
- Sat Feb 04, 2012 3:50 pm
- Forum: The MET Centre
- Topic: Looking towards substantial rainfall for SE Australia
- Replies: 1084
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The majority of the wetter signal for Week 2 (from about the 10th til 17th Feb) appears to be mainly around eastern NSW at this stage, although eastern Vic could see some reasonable falls later in the week before then. Ensembles also suggesting mod to strong probabilities of cool anomalies over SE A...
- by Ken
- Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:49 pm
- Forum: International Weather Archives
- Topic: US Thunderstorm Season 2012
- Replies: 20
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There's some pretty active cells cranking away over parts of NE Texas/SE Oklahoma where the SPC has the area under a Slight Risk for severe thunderstorms. Some of the more severe cells approaching Fort Smith just over the border of Texas in Arkansas. The numerous white pixels are recent lightning st...
- by Ken
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:45 pm
- Forum: International Weather Archives
- Topic: Remarkably warm start to winter for US/Europe
- Replies: 21
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I was about to say, there's also strong probabilities of widespread warm anomalies forecast across most of the Arctic and northern Siberia, just north of the belt of cold anomalies. But as usual, you'll hardly hear about this on the news because the more densely populated areas of Europe, western Ru...
- by Ken
- Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:24 am
- Forum: Australian Weather Archives
- Topic: Wet Season 2011/2012 - Queensland
- Replies: 46
- Views: 22521
There's still a distinct possibility of another monsoon low forming near the SE Gulf this week before arcing up across the Cape and out into the Coral Sea where it has a chance of intensifying. But tropical systems like these can sometimes be very tricky to predict so best to keep an open mind about...