Wow, -7.5'C is only -0.7'C of off the all time coldest temp recorded in SA, set in Yongala, 20th July 1976. The valley floors in the Adelaide Hills looked pretty white this morning. The photos below where taken on the eastern side of Mt Lofty. I even had to hose off a thick layer of ice of the car this morning, at home in the Western suburbs, which is a first since I've lived here.

Deep, deep low a coming

Thanks Roves for filling us in with that info - most of us would not have known that, and it's a good demonstration of how complex and subtle the influences of weather on agriculture can be, and of the skills and knowledge a farmer needs to make the most of land and weather.
I see that BoM are predicting significant precipitation for the eastern districts around Monday-Tuesday: "Accumulated rainfall amounts from Friday afternoon through to midnight Tuesday are expected to be 2 to 10 mm over districts east of the ranges with possible local falls of up to 20 mm. Falls of up to 2 mm is expected elsewhere."
Good photos Chris! Your pics reminded me of the days when I used to enjoy going out at dawn and frolicking about through the frosty grass lol.

Frost this am. atm T5.8 - better than 3 only a short time ago.

While Channel 7 were giving out the EST min/max for Mt Barker at 6.30pm tonight, the current temp was 2.7..???

I hope the overnight lows start climbing soon and some rain (+20 mm) is on the horizon.

#1105039 - 21-05-2012 10:53 AM:

Not there yet (I think!?)…but wonder what sort of plung in temp might…

It's hard to believe that it's taken me this long to realize that "willitrainagain" is not will-i-train-again but will-it-rain-again. I kept thinking why would anyone call themselves will-i-train-again lol.
I noticed that BoM have firmed up their predictions a bit for this coming event including for tuesday "Areas of rain on and east of the ranges easing to isolated showers during the morning" and "Accumulated rainfall amounts from Saturday through to midnight Wednesday are expected to be less than 5 mm, reaching 5 to 10 mm about western coastal parts, and 5 to 20 mm for areas on and east of the ranges."

Oh ye weather forecasters and prophets and crystal ballgazers - the next three days look pretty tricky to me - a good chance to test out your skills-intuition-luck

Will these showers in the next couple of days be convective i.e summer like convection ? Please someone fill me in !
Also any chance of storms ?

Loads of Seaweed on the beach from the recent storms.
Great evening at Semaphore

Great pic!

Seen something amazing today...

23 kangaroos in one paddock munching away, a further 8 kangaroos 500m down the road, and a another 5 kangaroos 1km further down.

You do often see large groups around the place, up to about 8 I have seen, 23 is something else, completely wild kangaroos all in one large group, crazy.

Must be something right about the conditions this year, creeks are finally starting to flow properly even with below average rainfall, springs through spring gully are flowing well, native animals are breeding well, infact the possums are finally starting to become widespread once more...ash wednesday all but wiped them out. It seems the land has finally recovered from the horible droughts of the 2000's

There's a solar flare heading our way tonight due to hit at 6:45 pm. Slight chance we might see aurora activity in the south of the state if the clouds clear.

Well last nights sleep was useless so early in the morning met up with a mate and went out to find something, anything to photograph. Thick fog engulfed the ranges, so we headed down to the plains. What greeted us was the most amazing milky way display I have seen in the area, was so incredibly bright. Must have been the freezing air and recent rains.
Perhaps the most incredible thing was the way a thick bank of ground/orographic fog which sat 50m behind us with visibility down to 50m in places through it, yet only being 20-30m thick, and looking over the plains not a single cloud in sight.



Later on as the sun rose, the fog dispersed extremely quickly, 100m visibility, ten minutes later, sunny. Some nice colour resulted, I have seen very few fogs like this personally, however apparently they are quite common in these hills (Armagh Hills), something ill have to explore further.

Wow, lovely shots Markus!

Yes, very nice shots Markus.
Love the Milky Way one especially - and the Roo's!! (Kangaroos bouncing away)

John

Some speccie photos there Markus particularly the milky way and the kangaroos
Outstanding photo the milky way one. Can you describe it in three dimensions for us - are we looking from our position in our arm of the galaxy towards another arm closer to the centre of the galaxy, with the galactic centre beyond that closer arm and approx in the middle of the photo?

I get what you mean unstable but I have no idea really The lights in the bottom are Blyth so in that direction is due west, the milky way was approx 40 degrees above the ground if I had to guess nd this was at 3.45 am, so someone might be able to tell you.

Only about 20% of our monthly rainfall so far. Wonder if Adelaide airport station will make it? not that we have too many crops to worry about

Cheers for posting those photos Marcus they are great.

Love the fog and nighttime sky. (and the windmill)