Hi Pete,
Welcome to the forum and I am glad you are venturing into this fascinating field! I hope your photography works out well and I guess being a little biased, I think Canon is a good brand.
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
Michael,
The storm above also went through parts of the Hunter. I can assume that most storms on this day based on the atmospheric profile would have produced hailstones – but copious amounts would have been limited to the stronger storms.

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Jimmy Deguara
Nice images of the lightning and storm structure – may we declare the storm season open 2011 to 2012.
I too a few images – one storm I found quite nicely structured in terms of updraft and anvils for this time of the year.



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Jimmy Deguara
Hi Michael Thomas,
I used digital atmosphere many years ago but never got much going with it at that time but it is a pretty good program. I have never really plotted much else, I tend to use models myself.
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Jimmy Deguara
Nice lightning strike Nick. I also note the internal reflection within the video camera that causes an abberation of a secondary strike as we have seen in the past when people thought they had been struck by lightning:)
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Jimmy Deguara
HI Michael,
Thanks for the reminder of the videos. Why not get Pintang to offer his feelings of the storm. Patrack Tobin's cell was interesting but was it a different storm?
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
Hi Nick,
You bet Nick – the sparks at the end are amazing!
You need to watch the whole video or perhaps the last 1 minute of video!
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
Interesting event shaping up for eastern nsw over the next couple of days. The bureau have damaging winds in warnings and local Terry Hills radar has a SSE rain band streaming in well into the mountains edging slowly towered Sydney. We'll see what unfolds.
Jimmy Deguara