Awesome report and photos Marty! You sure got alot of lightning pics, you were definately in the right spot!

The Se Winds in SE Qld. surly have delivered some nice coastal falls over the past 2 days with more set to come. GC seaway picked up 33mm over night with sustained 25knt SE winds these winds have also pumped up the Sea Swell with beaches starting to close from today due to dangerous sweeps. Waves to 3meters should peak tomorrow giving the board riders a real treat!!!

Over the hinterland, the rainfall was nowhere near that.. 10mm max until about 5am, then a trickle after but the winds hmm.
Grab the boards boys

Well I have to say that this weather is great. We've had some very nice showers around the area over the last few days, some light, some extremely heavy, such as early this morning. Woke up with rain absolutely pounding down on the roof which is good to see. These highs in the Tasman are pretty persistant that's for sure, I'm loving this moist SE'ly wind.

Adam

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Hmm looks like we are in for a rather cool wet Sunday and Monday folks. The swell along Qld.s SE Coast has been BIG with 2-3 meters all week. Water temp. is a reasonable 23C, which is warmer than the av day time temp.
Is that an ECL I see GFS going for off the ne nsw coast on Teusday / wednesday???
Cheers Jeff.

....Fugger me at how cold it is even here at The Gold coast ATM, about 7c outside . Today at 130pm we had the cold pool move over us which gave a line a showers and very strong 40knt wind gusts. The clouds realy did look like snow clouds hehehe. There have been reports of snow at Stanthorpe today and a flury of hail and heavy rain in Toowoomba. I just looked at Moree sounding ,..... OMG its INSANE!!! 0c at 880MB and -32C at 500.....
Cheers Jeff

GFS is looking very interesting for QLD next week, GASP is as well but mainly around the central QLD coast. Too early me thinks to start a topic in Breaking Weather yet, but lets just wait and see what the models do over the coming days. And damn has it been bloody cold the past few days!

Yep the models do look good... it would be nice!!

It has been cold! Referring to minimum temps, my min on Thursday morning was 2.0C which seemed unusually cold, as Amberley had 3.5C. I suspect we were slightly protected from the breeze. There was no frost on the grass, but there was on the car windscreen, and on the lawns at the lower end of the street and the valleys around Forest Lake - Oxley.

This morning my min was 2.9C with no frost but again there was a light frost further down the street.

Currently it's 7.4C at my place, 7.2C Amberley and 9.4C at Brisbane. No breeze to speak of. It's a 'warm' 6.0C at Armidale.

James

Those temps that I put in my last post... they were close to the minimum temps, as cloud quickly moved over.

It's been a cloudy but still the warmest in several days - up to about 21C. radar shows a fair amount of shower activity just coming onto the Sunshine Coast now. The best we've had is misty drizzle from low-mid level cloud. This may all change in the next several days with showers, then rain forecast up to at least Wednesday! We need it!!

James

Topic: SeQld Upper Low and Surface Low 27-06-05>01-07-05
JEFF.H.

Weather Freak
Member # 5595

posted 27-06-2005 19:20
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Seeing as my last Topic was closed lets clarify on the "Topic" and "coverage" area shall we. I along with other people think the topic " East coast rain" ect is different to what I am talking about. When someone says the east coast what are they talking from Rockhampton to Tasmania how many 1000's of KM is that??????
Come on moderators give us a break!!!
There is hardly mention of a low in NSW forcast and take a look at your own synoptic maps and comentry!
Like the football score in the 3rd game realy Maroons will win by how many.
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STATE FORECAST (Queensland)
for Monday night and Tuesday
Isolated showers across most of the eastern half of the state. Showers gradually increasing to
rain over southeast districts with some moderate to heavy falls likely. Isolated
showers and thunderstorms over the sub tropical interior, contracting gradually
eastwards on Tuesday. Fine in the west. Moderate SE to NE winds, fresh at times
along the east coast.
The
onshore airflow from these highs is expected to direct showers into east coast
districts until mid week. The developing upper trough now over western
Queensland will move slowly east initially and instability ahead of this system
should produce some showers across the eastern half of the state tonight and
Tuesday with some isolated thunderstorms over the subtropical inland. By Tuesday
showers will have increased to rain in southeast districts with moderate to
heavy falls likely. During Wednesday and Thursday the upper trough is expected
to move more quickly eastwards across the state spreading fine, cool and mostly
clear conditions to the bulk of the interior. Some thundery showers however
should persist in the southeast inland under an upper low associated with the
upper trough. This upper low is expected to produce a surface low to the north
of Fraser Island by Wednesday evening and very strong winds, rough seas and
heavy swells are likely to develop along the southern coast. The surface low is
expected to then move gradually south contracting the very strong winds and rain
toward the southeast corner during Thursday. Some showers will persist in
southeast districts on Thursday under the upper low, these becoming confined to
near the southern border by Friday.

This system has already produced falls up to 50mm and also inland storms with the lightning tracker showing them up well.... 3 cells even reaching Red intensity.I am almost tempted to drive 500km west to see whats happening out there tonight / tomorrow.
Here on the Gold and sunshine coasts there have been good falls last night and today.
Jeff.H.
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Michael M

Weather Freak
Member # 6063

posted 27-06-2005 19:27
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Hey Jeff!!!!! right on mate...


Been some decent falls here in Mackay too with some incredibly heavy showers coming off the ocean... still only ~15mm today though. Hopefully SE Qld receives quite a bit tomorrow, the dams really need it.


Michael
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Jake
Weather Freak
Member # 7113

posted 27-06-2005 19:48
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Thanks for starting another Jeff. I think this event is unique to the SE and should have a devoted thread. While the system is likely to effect a large portion of the east coast I'd still like to have reports, updates and discussion relating to events in my area.

Already we've had 40mm here, winds have strengthened considerably over the last 3 hours with gusts of up to 30knots. We're in for an interesting few days of weather
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Your thread gets closed you just bring it here, Good on you Jeff. I also think another thread for South east queensland is a great idea.
I woke up to howling winds here at buderim. Very dark, squally heavy showers, and very strong winds.

Gee what direction are they comming from Stephen? Are they outflow winds from cells comming onshore? No wind on GC ATM.
Jeff.H.

Yeah the wind was bloody strong up here last night, I'm not too sure which direction they were coming from though. Just received some very heavy showers also. Why can't another topic be started for this in Breaking Weather? I saw 2 of your topics closed last night which is a bit harsh, come on.

Let's hope BOM are on the money and it doesn't form too far East. I'm less than 100m from the hightide mark so I'll be the first to report any changes in the surf conditions.

Bit of a surprise (for me anyway) buildup around the place this afternoon - some heavy showers approaching the coast on radar now and moderate rain falling here from the southern edge of a cell to my NW. Several "cold air Cb" type anvils visible on the drive home from work this afternoon. No thunder here (the cells around Beaudesert look more intense though) but it would be nice if they would be so kind as to intensify off the coast and provide a nice light show over the next few hours.

There was 21mm in 10 mins at Evans Head about 230pm from the line of storms that moved through the Northern Rivers. Pea sized hail was also reported - enough to accumulate on the ground.

Dave was out taking some pics north of the storm.

MB

Some photos of that cells that tracked through the Northern Rivers. I got a bit caught out, spending too much time watching from a distance before moving in for the kill, and so I missed getting in front of it. Oh well! Can’t complain too much for a July storm day…

Gustfront begins to develop near Tucki:



Gustfront as the storms intensity peaks near Wardell:



Decaying storm moving out to sea at Ballina:



Cheers,
Dave

O wow Dave,,, sweet July cell pics mate, well done! Mmm I like no. 3:P
Hey M.B. , thats a great rain rate from those cells, certainly clean the leaves out of the gutter:P
Yeah there were a few nice towers around this afternoon and I must admit it did look better to my south towards NSW, but things did pick up around Boonah / Beauy area as Bodie had mentioned. I even kept checking outside to the west for some CC's or even CG's as the multi cells reached orange and red on radar, one would think some pea sized hail also fell from these cells. As they moved east they also weakened and we picked up a heavy shower at 6:30.
Come on spring... I think we could be in for some BIG storms given the wet winter thus far.
Cheers Jeff.H.

Great stuff Dave!!!!

I got a couple of shots from around my place yesterday looking SE towards evens Head.
At time the cell had some awesome features about it & the greenage at time was great to see!!!!

http://users.bigpond.com/r.s.mullens/images/1307rmpan03.jpg
http://users.bigpond.com/r.s.mullens/images/1307rmpan04.jpg
http://users.bigpond.com/r.s.mullens/images/1307rmpan02.jpg

:cheers:
Ray :p