Looks to be a good cell developed to my SW here,and a few to my west.but I think the heaviest area will slip south of me,the area to my west might intencify maybe and give me a good drenching.

I hope lightning chaser has had the forsight to get out on the Forbes West Wyalong route for that storm comingup from the south.

Yup split just like I said hours ago!!! A JOKE!

Southerly just hit here, nothing much interesting cloud wise around. Insurance companies must love Sydney.

Hey guys. Just travelling in the car headed to Dubbo. My limited knowledge of reading radars. My question is looking at the Namoi radar is the storm starting to die or is it still intensifying?
Cheers
Bec


Ps as we are half way between Narrabri and coona

Today had so much potential and ended up so crap.
Even BOM jumped on board this afternoon and changed the word "isolated' to "scattered", with regards to storms.
What a rubbish day.

Homer.

Moderate rain here for the last half an hour, just a few flashes and a small rumble to my SW earlier.

A couple of storms showed the potential of the day. I can only imagine what my storm would've been like, had it been sunny ,and not a 8/8 cirrusfest or whatever the hell it was. Probrably would've been another ulladulla hail monster.

The lightshow off the coast was destroyed by scud. It was 40kms offshore, yet I could barely see a flash despite there being closish static every 5seconds...

The line you are referring to is decaying. It is also moving to the North east away from you as you are stuck in the Pilliga and have no road options to the east until you get to Coona by which time I expect the storm or what is left of it to be ay Mullaley. The next nearest active storm is tracking north just SW of Forbes and is approx 165 ks from Narromine so it is a couple of hours from their at least IF it can hold together, unfortunately it is in a radar hole and very difficult to accurately assess it's speed and state.
Sorry I can not be of more help.

The rain and wind has begun, although it is only light at the moment there have been a few spurts where it has been heavier/stronger. The rain is being accompanied by a few flashes of lightning and some rumbles.

Shame to see so much potential in the day and have the cloud cover destroy the day completely, once again. This night show is making a few nice rumbles though, just had one catch me off-guard.

Thanks for that. Not chasing. Just travelled from qld to visit family and we've got 4 kids in the car.

Happened to coincide my drive to Warren NSW with chasing today. Target was Narromine, spent most of the day getting up there from Sydney (toyed with the southern line for a little while), before getting onto the big storm west of dubbo for a while. Once it got past me though I was stuffed due to roads, and could never get in front again to enjoy the really nice sculpted structure before dark ensued. On the positive side, the video timelapse of the approach and the photos were definitely very nice continuing the structurefest I've had this year. Would pretty categorically say it was a HP supercell, primarily on the basis of the inflow tails, sculting and production of a wall cloud, together with the strength of the RFD wrap. Wish I had more of a chance to stay in front of it...but can't complain given the pickings were slim. Will post a pic first thing in the morning.

Nice shot there Keeney.

Went on a brief drive to Wyong and got a very ordinary lightshow in that evening line, of course dying as it moved closer to the coast. When it was far away it looked good and had frequent flashes, but by the time it got close it was a rainy mess. It put out a couple of ok CG's but that was it. Don't like to whinge, but such a horrible, disappointing day, getting a bit annoying that in order to get anything decent a 1000km+ round trip is required. Equal worst season I can remember around these parts, on par with the horrible one two seasons ago (09/10)

We ended up receiving 17.6mm from that rain band that only contained a few flashes and rumbles. A small storm cell appears to have developed in Port Stephens and is currently tracking north around Bulahdelah.

Its funny how Victoria has been in the firing line of most storms for some months now, North of Canberra has been fairly quite. Certainly quite ordinary around here, most rain has been quite light and gentle and not many CG's hitting the hills. Fair bit of lightning last night with a passing storm but most seemed to stay high in the clouds. Event total 15mm spread over 24h in little drips. MTD now 5mm below normal.

It was hard going yesterday. I chased up through the Young, Gundagai and Yass triangle. There were some promising storms most of the afternoon, but one by one, each storm failed to get it's act together. I accidentally caught up with an old mate of mine, Shane Eckerbicer, whom drove past me just north of Yass and turned around when he recognised me. Funny coincidence considering he came for Vic! We decided after watching the storm that i was watching died, that we'd move further north to Young for the first active line, but alas it died due to the southerlies that starting to cool things off. Infact, this was the problem all day. Southerlies and westerlies killed anything off. For brief windows of time, Northerlies would come into the mix and then suddenly we had a storm on our hands. Sooooo frustrating.

Shane and i departed ways at Young, as he was on his way to the north east of the state to try his luck over the next day or 2. I hope he got a piece of the stuff that Lightning Chaser got at Forbes. At this point i decided to catch up with Troy Barrett who was in my area. We chased the next line that looked the goods coming up from Wagga. We sat south of Harden and had a great view of the rock solid line to our south.... it looked really good actually. We had northerlies at our backs feeding into the line, and we thought that this would be the one to save the day........ BUT, once again, the southerlies kicked in and the whole line died. Using the WZ radar really helped because we could see when the streamlines started to turn to the dark side and we knew we were on limited time. Although i must say, epic fail by the BOM...... at one point Wagga and Canberra radar were both out. Are they doing maintenance or something? Had to rely on NSW WZ for long periods, which was still okay, but still a bit of an annoyance.

By the time 7pm came around i knew things were dead. I could have gone north but i'd had had enough. Troy's parent live in Cowra, so he headed north hoping to score an isolated cell Nw of Young on his way home, but this died too unfortunately. I'll post up some pics later today from the 24th, and also from yesterday.

Time for some structure for you all as promised. The Dubbo Dominator . Truth be told the shot was taken closer to Trangie on the Narromine-Nyngan portion of the Mitchell Highway. Damn difficult direction of movement and a lack of open petrol stations meant I pretty much only got one good go...but the RFD beat the hell out of me.

Beautiful shot! Looks like time and effort paid off again for you, you've been having a good season

Shame to hear about that Greg - it was a disappointment for the majority of us. Lets see how NE NSW goes, hopefully Eker gets something, he's come a long way.

Geebus nothing like that here a hour or so away lots of towers and big black clouds they pass right over the top of us but do nothing much as usual, we had a hail storm here at home last week but I was in town at work so missed it (:
Thats an awesome shot congtrats

Sensational John!!!

You certianly know how to get the best out of most setups. Glad someone was on that beast! I was thinking of chasing to Dubbo or Parkes, but the nasty sat pic and my noisy wheel bearing made me chase much more locally. You said the cloud would eventually clear that reigon and it did,so well done!

Greg sorry to hear about your frustrating day. My Christmas day afternoon was much like that!

I noticed gfs backed off the coastal instabiliy massively for the coast in yesterdays the 00z run, obviously in response to that cloudfest.