Bit of an angry sky this evening in Renmark. Waited for this to go through before heading home, of course. 10 minutes of very heavy rain, a 180 degree wind change, a 10 degree decrease in temp, a cup of coffee and a biscuit and we were on our way. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I imagine you're getting hammered there now. To be honest it didn't look anything like as bad as some fronts which come through. Quite narrow but intense. Pretty much a normal spring pattern. Pic below taken from 17,000ft. TOD. Pity you can't really see the detail with the iPhone pic. 25 years has taught me that the detail is everything, and that pattern had some interesting details. Renmark airport is near the bottom. Previous pic was taken 10 minutes after landing. It went through very violently, but afterwards was quite ok. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is a sad old ...., was an aircraft from OZ but has run out of time in NZ. Was a good old glider tug and a lot of spraying under it's old wings. Photo copyright NZCIVAIR Image Unavailable, Please Login
Ye Gods, what is it? A Callair or Weatherly with a PT6 or Walter in the front - or something Eastern European? - looks like some afterthought engineering around the landing gear....
After flipping the first two over on your first day, I'd have thought they'd hesitate to let you in a third
I guess they needed the money. They did say I went through several less aircraft than some bloke called Peter... And my parking was better than some guy called Wes... Weather must have been really bad. Or ATC was on their lunch break...
I was in the middle of it !!!! Coro Drive was a nightmare, a roof from a block of units on the river had been torn off and thrown over the road smashing the armco to pieces and blocking most of the 6 lane road. Also some power lines had been knocked down a bit further up on Moggil Road with a lot of the traffic turning around and going back .... I just drove onto the footpath, past the loose wires and had great drive until I hit Coronation Drive .... so I stopped for a few beers until the traffic started moving again. Had some small hail on the car but not big enough to dent it, apparently just up the road from me hail bigger than cricket balls were smashing windows and cars
Scary stuff. Look after yourself and family - bit on ABC. Link Brisbane storm: Photos show full scale of destructive cell system - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
We live in the CBD, on the river, just finished cleaning up, blew light fittings off the wall into the pool, hail shredded the trees, the weather pushed two 5kg weights across the balcony, table & chairs, shutters, gone, found downstairs in the garden. My wife just drove into the garage as it hit, fire alarms went off a 4:45pm, isolated the alarms and the fire brigade only just showed up a little while ago (10:30pm). Looks like a wild summer this year?
Please don't play the media game and imply this was anything to do with global warming. It is what's usually termed a 100 year storm, where multiple cells combine. We had one in Sydney in 1999.
Looks unpleasant. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HecyxhXDepU]F15 Ejection at Supersonic speed - YouTube[/ame]
LOL! Brisbane cops storms like this probably about once every 5 years or so, although this was definitely a 'biggie'!!!!! Many years ago I lived on a hilltop at Alderley and you could watch the storms come in from the southwest - how green the sky was let you know how much hail you could expect. Hope everyone is safe and managing OK if you're still without power...
