Live radar of Melbourne - Page 5

DavidU (Dave) · #81 14-09-2009, 08:20 PM

The seeing is a bit washy at 8.18pm a bit of jet stream as well. I let the scope cool some more.......

pgc hunter · #82 14-09-2009, 09:37 PM

Cloud cleared at around 8:30pm, but seeing looks to be garbage, transparency sucks, high cloud everywhere, to the hell with tonight. What a turn around from the beautiful clear morning, but what else could I expect from this antarctic roaring fourties outpost they call Melbourne

Days like this remind me how much I hate this climate

I'm sure tomorrow night will have some other cloudy surprise in store despite a forecast of sunshine.

If only Melbourne was in the middle of the desert....

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pgc hunter · #83 15-09-2009, 12:00 PM

hating the look of the sky atm, there seems to be a ton of hazy milky crud and high cloud. Shocking. Hoping all this clag takes a hike by nightfall

just can't win here

Moon (James) · #84 15-09-2009, 01:51 PM

Skippysky looks good for tonight!

pgc hunter · #85 15-09-2009, 02:51 PM

^^ Just had a look at that site, and it shows good transparency and average seeing. But it also shows NO high cloud at 1pm AEST, and 7Timer shows essentially the same thing - no cloud and good transparency but look at the sky

This ugly high cloud is still here, just wont bugger off.

DavidU (Dave) · #86 15-09-2009, 03:44 PM

The high cloud seems to be dissapating a tad (I hope) on the sat photo it looks like thin high cloud doesn't show up in IR.
The jet stream map shows a small hole comming over

pgc hunter · #87 15-09-2009, 04:13 PM

^^ It's on the vis satpic it doesnt show. THe unforecasted high level garbage looks like its trying to clear, but the sky is still full of some sort of haze which is actually brownish toward the horizon. Hopefully it too will dissipate tonight.

Should've gone outside on Sunday nite, beautifully clear at 10pm when i took the garbage out despite how ugly the day was, who would've thunk it...

Yesterday and today are both crap despite the forecast

AstralTraveller (David) · #88 15-09-2009, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by pgc hunter

^^ It's on the vis satpic it doesnt show. THe unforecasted high level garbage looks like its trying to clear, but the sky is still full of some sort of haze which is actually brownish toward the horizon. Hopefully it too will dissipate tonight.

Bushfire smoke?? There was plenty of it up here on Saturday. Driving to my site I can see the Blue Mountains, which were brown.

pgc hunter · #89 15-09-2009, 04:26 PM

Could be related to that, on the GFS chart the airmass over us orignated over southern NSW. Are those fires still going though?

Latest forecast suggests good weather on fri sat and sun....

Spanrz (Brett) · #90 15-09-2009, 05:16 PM

I haven't had the scope out for ages....Simply for the cloud issues...And this messy haze. Hmm

Seems we only get a few days now and then in a month of really good clear skies.

I just hope summer brings good clear skies, not smokey haze skies.

pgc hunter · #91 15-09-2009, 06:08 PM

Smoke haze in summer is a guarantee.

Oh and there is a brand bloody new patch of high cloud moving in

Today is an even bigger cockup than yesterday's shambles

Listed alphabetically, Here's a list of places which have a better climate than Melbourne:

Everywhere.

stephenb (Stephen) · #92 15-09-2009, 06:54 PM

Tonight looks good in Melbourne. A nice mild evening.

DavidU (Dave) · #93 15-09-2009, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by glenluceskies

Tonight looks good in Melbourne. A nice mild evening.

I got the scope out, Jupiter is going from "swimming" to about reasonable. See how it goes for a few hours

pgc hunter · #94 16-09-2009, 08:48 AM

I was out last night - poor transparency and ordinary seeing. Normally I could see the LMC and SMC with naked eye quite plainly, but last night they were virtually out of sight, infact they were easier to see with the last quarter moon above the horizon last time I was out.

Still, got a few good views of Jupiter at 217x, there were a few instances of crisp detail in the belts and I made out a couple of white ovals in the South Temperate Zone. Better viewing than I expected given the conditions.

Transparency was far too poor for galaxies so I concentrated on PNs and globular clusters instead. But by midnight, PNe and GC season was well and truly over with galaxies the real only option so I had to call it quits also you could see high cloud everywhere.

Temp wasn't particularly cold and there was absolutely no dew so thats 2 points for last night.

pgc hunter · #95 16-09-2009, 05:49 PM

well weell well the inevitable cockups have reared their ugly heads in the latest forecast, Sat and Sun are now expected to be cloudy

Friday is the only hope we have no here in Melbourne, the cloudiest place in the known universe

Kevnool (Kev) · #96 17-09-2009, 09:56 PM

The skies are pristine tonight 170 klms from any city in any direction.
Cobham sheep station far west nsw.

Cheers Kev.

pgc hunter · #97 18-09-2009, 11:10 AM

Cloud starting to break up and the sky is a nice vivid blue behind it - none of the silly white hazy stuff

DavidU (Dave) · #98 18-09-2009, 11:11 AM

Kewl !
The jetstream map also looks good.

DavidU (Dave) · #99 18-09-2009, 01:10 PM

May I say it looks bloody great @1pm !

pgc hunter · #**100** 18-09-2009, 04:23 PM

Yeah better make the most of it because after tonight it's back to the usual Melbourne wintry cloudy and rainy crap for the foreseeable future.