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Gday ALL..

I am Craig from Nowra,,my hobby is mainly chasing severe storms and photographing lightning,,butt,

Where i am able to be handy here is,i am happy to post up severe storm warnings for the Sydney Metro area,,Illawarra & the Shoalhaven{if anyone lives in another area,please let me know and i will look out for them too}

If NO-ONE likes this idea,please let me know as i follow the weather,its like a religion to me as its more of a hobby also..

No storms are in the forecast atm,not till Monday afternoon at this point in time..

What i will post up will be,,,Warnings,,Lightning Tracker & radar Images..

{I dont YET own a Toyota,but plan on getting rid of my 94 Model TI BlueBird after Xmas for a Corolla}..

Look forward on reading your replies..

Craig

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welcome to the TOCAU

enjoy ya stay here. we are all here to help and support each other in our little quests

any questions, no matter how stupid, ask!

good luck with the storm chasing. I might have to join you one day :D

adn if you could post up some of ya works, i'd be very interested. I love a storm :)

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Gday Pete..

Thanx for the welcome..

Pete yeah no worries,i be happy to take you out on a chase,{when we get a good serious storm again}..

How do i post pix here,or do i go thru my photo-bucket link {url}.

Cheers Mate..

Craig / Shags

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lightning29thNov06.jpg

This link is to one of my favourite pix..

It was taken up at Nowra Hill {HMAS Albatross}pic was taken 29th Nov 06,,What they call C.G...Cloud to Ground lightning strike.

Reason why its my favourite as i had lightning going off all around me and i must admit,it was scarey..

Please keep an eye on this thread MONDAY 11th Dec,,as we are due for storms :clap:

Craig

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that is freakin sweet.... its funny.... its very nerdish... but that is a cool subject to be a nerd about!!!

all that was meant in a good way by the way! Love your work!

hit us up with some info for good ol canberra as well if u can!

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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

New South Wales

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

NSW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for DAMAGING WIND

For people in the

Illawarra,

Central Tablelands,

Metropolitan and parts of the

Central West Plains,

Central West Slopes,

South Coast,

Hunter and

Southern Tablelands Forecast Districts.

Issued at 3:13 PM Monday, 11 December 2006.

Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging winds in the warning area over the next several hours.

Major locations within the warning area include Camden, Richmond, Wollongong, Nowra, Batemans Bay, Orange, Goulburn and Parkes

radarimage11thDec.gif

This image of the radar was taken at 3:20pm..

shags

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lightningtracker11thDec.jpg

This is the recent lightning tracker..

If someone can tell me on HOW i can add images etc,all thru one post,it be much appreciated..

Any further updates re this afternoon storm,,i will let ya know..

Shags

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lightning29thNov06.jpg

This link is to one of my favourite pix..

It was taken up at Nowra Hill {HMAS Albatross}pic was taken 29th Nov 06,,What they call C.G...Cloud to Ground lightning strike.

Reason why its my favourite as i had lightning going off all around me and i must admit,it was scarey..

Please keep an eye on this thread MONDAY 11th Dec,,as we are due for storms :clap:

Craig

that was the freaking storm that blew up half the sh!t in my house............. :angry:

but nice pic......

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Todays FURTHER UPDATE {11TH}

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

New South Wales

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - SYDNEY/NEWCASTLE/WOLLONGONG REGION

for LARGE HAILSTONES and DAMAGING WIND

For people in parts of the

Sydney Metropolitan area.

Issued at 4:25 PM Monday, 11 December 2006.

At 4:25 PM , Bureau of Meteorology weather radar detected severe thunderstorms near Parramatta and Liverpool. These thunderstorms are moving towards the east. Severe thunderstorms are forecast to affect Bankstown, Stadium Australia and Ryde by 4:55 PM and Sydney City, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Airport by 5:25 PM .

Large hailstones and damaging winds are possible.

A more general severe thunderstorm warning is also current for the Illawarra, Central Tablelands, Metropolitan and parts of the Central West Plains, Central West Slopes, South Coast, Hunter, South West Slopes and Southern Tablelands Forecast Districts.

Plz note,,,great chances of hail in the Syd metro area!!

Shags

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745pm Wolli Creek Sydney:

last 10mins of my OzTag game and we got PELTED with rain.. and it friggin HURT haha. Great backdrop of dark cloud cover and lightening bolts.

love playin in the wet tho

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Gday to all;

Went up to the highlands yesterday arvo for a chase,,,very much dissapointed :(

The storms up there dies out completely on my arrival and al i got to see was lightning to the far North,like as though it hit Sydney,s S/W ..{Liverpool-Campbelltown areas } :(

The camera i use is a Kodak EasyShare 6meg..{nothing like the you-beaut gear some photographers use}..

Craig

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Gday to all..

At the moment we have very severe storms heading in for ALL AREAS.. :clap:

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

New South Wales

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

NSW/ACT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES, DAMAGING WIND, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL and FLASH FLOODING

For people in the

Illawarra,

Hunter,

Central Tablelands,

Metropolitan,

Southern Tablelands,

the ACT and parts of the

Mid North Coast and

South West Slopes Forecast Districts.

Issued at 11:59 AM Friday, 29 December 2006.

Severe thunderstorms may produce large hailstones, damaging winds, very heavy rainfall and flash flooding in the warning area during the afternoon. Thunderstorms are occurring on the Central Tablelands now and are expected to affect the remainder of the warning area this afternoon.

Major locations within the warning area include Newcastle, Gosford, Sydney, Wollongong, Nowra, Canberra and Goulburn.

Please treat this warning serious,,,not a joke & storms are PREDICTED ALL WEEK..

Craig

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MSROLA ..

I JUST sent you a PM..

Anyone who would like me to send them the warnings VIA sms on their mobiles incase ya out N about having funn..

PLZ PM ya mobile numbers,,,,{YES !!...I WILL ONLY SEND WARNINGS,,,nothing else}..

Craig

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