Rain eased on Friday night and Saturday, leaving fewer residents isolated, but more falls may swamp the region.
Rain eased on Friday night and Saturday, leaving fewer residents isolated, but more falls may swamp the region.
There’s a severe weather warning for heavy rainfall leading to flash flooding for much of Queensland today (Mon, Dec 5).
There’s a severe weather warning for heavy rainfall leading to flash flooding for much of Queensland today (Mon, Dec 5).
This pretty cool shelf cloud rolled by Sawtell today. Earlier while I was working I heard a fair bit of thunder from in side Target.
This is viewed from Bonville Creek

rain made it hard to shoot lightning, I tried from inside my car however.

Wild weather batters Ballarat – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Ballarat recorded almost 30 millimetres of rain, as thunderstorms and wild weather battered the city yesterday.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-29/wild-weather-batters-ballarat/3034940
Severe weather by the end of next week?
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<p>The long-range models have been somewhat consistent on bringing a large, west-coast trough into the Central Plains by the middle/late part of next week. While still a long ways out, the potential will be there for a severe weather outbreak and possibly a tornado outbreak for portions of the Central/Southern Plains including Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, but it's too far out to get excited, just yet. The severe threat could continue into the Upper Midwest by next weekend, depending on mesoscale details that won't be unkinked until late next week. Stay tuned as this looks to be an active fall season and much needed rain, for drought-stricken areas, could return by late next week.</p>
That turned out really awesome Dan got to love that wide angle!!!!
It's been a good last couple of nights. This afternoon/evening was a great storm for winter, we had to wait seemingly forever for rain to clear so we could shoot some close lightning with a bright pink sunset sky, unfortunately the rain wouldn't let up until that had faded.
August 29:

August 30:




First chase of the season for me yesterday after missing out on Thursday's action. Headed out around 4pm and straight away saw some nice new bases developing on the outflow boundary pushing north from the earlier Casino storms near Bentley.
Nothing much happened until around 445pm when the line of bases now stretching north of Bentley started to thicken up and look ominous. Headed north to Jiggi and watched as the first bolts of lightning hit the ground to my north-west.
Not much happened after this with freezing cold outflow winds flying through and rain falling. Photo below is from just south of Jiggi looking north towards Stony Chute and Nimbin. Headed home happy considering it's August!