About time I put some of my pics here from last month.
6/3/2010 Severe Storms
I had fairly heavy hail near Kyneton turn off on Calder Fwy and that was pretty much deafening for awhile and could probably only see 5 meters in front of me (no damage to car from when I quickly checked)
Here's that beast of a cell near Calder Park from the NE side, this was taken at 17mm wide angle from Calder Fwy to give you a idea of the size of it, it was raining a bit at the time and winds started to pick up strongly. I took off soon after as didn't want to get directly hit.
After having a really good look from my pics on Saturday from the NE side of the Supercell not far passed Calder Park that hit Melbourne, some of the images show a possible funnel in the middle of all the dirt/junk that was in the air. When it got closer the wind really picked up and I had horizontal rain drops and dust/crap flying into me (some of my pics at full res show the rain streaks)
Anyway here's what I'm talking about, not to sure but does not surprise me if it is a funnel considering what that cell produced.
Taken at 2:12 PM - 17mm 400 ISO, 1/80 sec, f6.3
Edited contrast, levels etc in photoshop to bring out the possible funnel shape that I could see in the original better.
With more extreme editing to show the shape in the dust/dirt
Here's another pic from Saturday showing the wall cloud and possibly funnel (look to the left of the tree in the middle) This was taken 5 minutes before my other shots before I drove a few minutes further up the road for the closer ones.
Radar images from the same time I took the pics above
Some more pics from the 6th
Looking NE heading towards Shepparton, was a really nice big Rainbow for awhile but it lost it's brightness when I stopped here to take a few pics, of course 5 minutes later down the road it was brighter again lol
Looking NW from North of Shepparton, I did a small bit of editing in this pic... it shouldn't be that hard to notice hehe other then the HDR
Pano looking E to S
Higher Res -
http://www.members.optushome.com.au/twi ... Pano01.jpg
Looking NW a bit further up the road then the last shot, was a bit of lightning activity for awhile in this spot but died off when it got dark, most of the lightning activity when it got dark was further N and SE of my position though it wasn't that good for photos from what I could see.
Looking East