#1099697 - 16/04/2012 10:20
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: kgb007]
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Looking like a decent rain event beginning around the weekend..... has been looking better and better over last 2 days on models - cross fingers they don't downgrade....
Also should add for the wedding I'm photographing and Andrew's wedding, it's starting to look touch and go..... Should still be a warm day, but a couple of models are starting to bring the wet weather in earlier... although my bet at this stage is it wont be till sunday...
Edited by teckert (16/04/2012 10:25)
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#1099703 - 16/04/2012 10:41
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
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Nothing likely on Friday RS, unless some isolated storms develop in eastern districts.
The main rains look to be Sunday-Monday onwards.
I think your 40-80mm might be a little optimistic as well. Although GFS & WRF are probably not far off that in some areas. I'd be more likely to go with a 20-30mm possible in agric areas.
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#1099801 - 16/04/2012 20:58
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: teckert]
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Models now backing off a weekend start. Now looking at Monday onwards maybe? Still decent rainfall totals progged though.
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#1099826 - 17/04/2012 04:33
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: teckert]
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Well the last time gfs predicted a slow-moving cutoff low for us which was over Easter, it disappeared without trace in later runs, so I'm not confident this time around. Looking at the latest 00Z model runs, if I'm interpreting them correctly, both gfs and access are predicting cutoff slow-moving surface and upper lows, whereas ec is predicting a trough extending northwards from the southern ocean. I hope gfs and access prevail but ec looks more realistic to me.
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#1099847 - 17/04/2012 08:05
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
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Yeah I think you might be right Unstable. Looks more typical of our recent patterns. Fingers crossed we get something  Never sure how much stock to put in this thing but I like checking it out anyway - Issue Notes-
The hemispheric long wave pattern has remained stable in recent weeks. There are four main troughs. Currently the most significant troughs are near the longitudes of the southwest Indian Ocean, Western Australia, the south Pacific, South America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
Summary:
Over southern and eastern Australia the cold front events with potential to bring widespread rain are now expected about 23 April to 27 April, 4 May to 8 May, and 15 May to 19 May.
Rain events originating in the tropics and moving south are possible about 24 April to 28 April, 28 April to 2 May, and 2 May to 6 May. From - WeatherZone Central 28-day Rainfall Forecast 19 out of the next 28-days it's given us either medium or high chance of rainfall within central district. Feels like it's been ages since the last rain, although probably hasn't been all that long 
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#1099865 - 17/04/2012 11:04
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: Chris #3]
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Whatever happens on Monday onwards, do you think this might be the break in the weather and much cooler and wet conditions to follow?
Steve
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#1099905 - 17/04/2012 16:01
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
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I sure hope so. Summer is like that guy at the party who keeps on partying and playing loud music when everyone else just wants to crash out.
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#1099913 - 17/04/2012 16:46
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
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I hope you don't believe that rubbish Chris 19 of the next 28 days hey? So given that the next week is likely to be dry that means 19 of the next 21 days after that will be wet? I wish! I am going to stick my neck out and almost guarantee a rain event over the Anzac day period, with no rain since the 24th of March it just increases the chance. I wouldn't expect the weather to be cold and wet from then on in either, given the weak strength of the LWT and dominance of high pressure. It would be nice to have near average rainfall in May leading into winter though.
Edited by seaworthy (17/04/2012 16:48)
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#1099992 - 18/04/2012 06:01
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
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Happy birthday Helen.
WGFS has rain coming. and this time a substantial amount.
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#1100082 - 18/04/2012 15:49
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
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Man check out GFS 00z update. Cut-off instability spectacular!
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#1100102 - 18/04/2012 18:05
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: seaworthy]
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I hope you don't believe that rubbish Chris 19 of the next 28 days hey? So given that the next week is likely to be dry that means 19 of the next 21 days after that will be wet? I wish! Haha nope. I look at it more like - since it's forecasting 19 possible raindays, then it has to get a few correct at least Getting more confident in the models as we get closer to the weekend - surely we'll get at the very least a bit of rain, and hopefully something a bit nicer. These coldies have to start breaking through sooner or later - WGFS turned me into a believer. I like the looks of regular GFS! Happy Birthday Helen Hope this year brings you tons of awesome photos.
Edited by Chris #3 (18/04/2012 18:13)
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#1100119 - 18/04/2012 19:32
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: Chris #3]
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I'm keen as a bean for this system !  Lets just hope there's at least one storm or at least some good rain !
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#1100136 - 18/04/2012 20:57
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
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Lots of pirocumulus around the place. This one looking up my street. Happy birthday to you Helen!  [url=  ][/url]
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#1100162 - 18/04/2012 23:15
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: Skysthelimit]
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nice shot Nick.
Yer models still a bit waffly, but all are in agree-ance with some good rainfall from Saturday onwards. Farmers def need to expect up to an inch in agric areas (over the forecast period), which will be great.
Chance storms too, especially with the upper low, Monday and Tuesday.
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#1100223 - 19/04/2012 11:54
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: teckert]
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Thanks for the birthday wishes, fellas. Was a good, but very busy day... as most have been of late.
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#1100237 - 19/04/2012 13:21
Re: South Australian and Adelaide day to day forecasting
[Re: Helen]
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Aye Helen, making hay while the sun shines, gathering nuts and seeds for winter I see gfs have yo-yo'd again, downwards this time. And what does BOM make of all this? Here's their current rain forecast "Cumulative rainfall totals from Thursday morning until midnight Sunday are expected to be 2 to 5 mm, reaching 5 to 10 mm about western and central districts." This is becoming a bit like Blue Hills (for those mature enough to remember Blue Hills) - I probably listened to a few thousand episodes.
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