Hi All,

My apologies for the delay, been a bit busy! Please post all your beautiful Autumn weather images here for 2012, and please keep in mind the guidelines.

Happy shooting!

Thought I would start this thread with a sunset and a bit of lightning we had here in Adelaide the other night. I think sunsets are posted here yeah?

This sunset was interesting in that a thick wall of smoke originating from Victoria was shrouding the plains, yet in the hills the air was completely clear. Let to some amazing reds well after sunset.






Cheers Markus

Few from the Victorian storms Thursday...

shots from this mornings tornado in Townsville, 200m down the road from me.


Tregaskis Street Vincent, roof colapsed in. Note holes in the walls. Also note, the yellow car was parked behind the black one. it was moved by the wind.

Tregaskis Street Vincent.

Palm Tree snapped in half, survived Yasi but not 10min of a tornado!

Power pole snapped 1m off the ground in Tregaskis Street Vincent

Palmerston Street wide shot

Close up, house torn apart, roof and walls. Kitchen, bedrooms, lounge all torn open. family sheltered in bathroom, only part of house still with roof.

roof torn open

car crushed under iron and trees

trees and powerlines down, Palmerston Street.

iron roofing

close up

walls torn apart

my backyard, trampoline moved 20m across the yard, tree in back left snapped in half

neighbours trampoline ended up 5m off the ground in a tree

Luckily it was only a "mini-tornado"

Looks at least an F1 by those pics, maybe even approaching F2. Thanks for sharing.

Cumulonimbus cloud and a forming and a shelf cloud from a different cell. tell me what you think

Autumn on the Murrumbidgee River, her tributaries and lagoons.

Flooded Ginninderra Creek. Normally, this creek at the bottom of our street in the NW of the ACT is a few steps wide. Not the 80-100 metres that it is, in these two images..





The confluence of the Murrumbidgee River and Molonglo River below the escarpment of Woodstock Nature Reserve. Sturt Island ... is again an island.



Callitris, rain, rock and river ... again from Woodstock NR. It was here that the Canberra fire storm (Jan.2004) nearly wiped out the last remaining stand of native Blue and Black Cypress growing in association, in the ACT.





Then the rain stopped and the river dropped several metres over the next few days ... as the giant flow raced towards Wagga Wagga. At this stage Burrinjuck Dam had started to spill water.







Warren.

PS, if you haven't seen Ginninderra Creek in flood, just as it enters the Murrumbidgee, it is most spectacular ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsydV2_B52o

At the start of March, I spent time exploring the floodplain and lagoons north of Wagga Wagga, the weather was warm and clear and with no indication of what was to come (that I was aware of) within two weeks.

River Red Gums, in the late afternoon glow, near Eunony Lagoon.



Two weeks later in the same area.









The river peaked at 10.6 m(?)and the levee protecting the city, unfortunately not for North Wagga is 10.7m(?)



Early twilight Eunony Lagoon.



River mist.



Warren.

Outstanding photos everybody

What sort of car do you drive Warren? I think I might have seen you taking the photos of Nth Wagga floodplain and Dukes Creek?

bigwilly, G'day. It very likely that you saw me. I've spent quite a few days in Wagga Wagga this Autumn looking at the lagoons and river.

I could have been in a white Commodore station wagon that I rented for a couple of days or in a copper or red coloured Astra driving around the uni. I spend a fair bit of time exploring the Murrumbidgee on my bike. If you see this thing wandering around the floodplains, that's me ... http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd301/WildWassa/?action=view¤t=OnGlenrock.jpg do stop and say Hello.

Warren.

I'll keep an eye out and will certainly say hello if I see you!

Few pics from the Victorian storms this evening. Lightning was minimal, but was treated to a pretty nice shelf cloud.















Taken at Rye beach on the Mornington Peninsula.

One lonely tower one single flash, worth the 5min effort..
old bar beach 2nd april

A decent surf developed yesterday due to the persistent E/NE'ly flow toward the coast over the past few days. Taken yesterday afternoon around 4:30pm as the showers/rain began to clear, looking north from near Trial Bay Gaol at South West Rocks:

It was a foggy morning on the Murrumbidgee today, in the NW of the ACT. The fog stayed until late morning. The fog lifted off the river and then it dropped to the water level several times during the morning.






Anyway, that wasn't the reason why I posted. I'm posting to show how stunning the river looks after the flooding.

Normally, in the past, I'd sink into the silt in the river, maybe as much as 40cm but after the scouring of the flood, the silt has gone, washed river gravel and exposed rock now dominates the bed and banks ... and the Silver Perch have a sandy bottom to breed and lay their eggs on, again.




Since I've been visiting this site, I think that I've gained a greater appreciation for what the weather means to the environment.

Warren.

Hi guys one from yesterdays late afternoon storm rolling off the downs heading towards somerset.

Those photos of the Murrumbidgee look fantastic, especially with the native conifers (cypress pines) in frame, it could easily pass off for somewhere in Europe.

North from taree