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Old 15-01-2014, 01:47 AM
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Old 15-01-2014, 10:57 AM
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Here's a map of early jan heatwave.
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Old 15-01-2014, 11:45 AM
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Yes, I was looking at the Melbourne Obs last night - the sea breeze died out and the prevailing northerly bought the warm air back in. Just oozed in from the north.
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Old 15-01-2014, 05:08 PM
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Sorry to hear about your uncles house Simon. Glad they're all safe.
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Sorry to hear that Simon.
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Sorry about your Uncles home Simon.
Just watched the devastation on the news.

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Sorry to hear about your uncles loss Simon, it must be heartbreaking for him and his family. A very good friend of mine was lucky this time when the approaching fire front was halted less than 500m from his property. He and his wife were forced to flee, discretion coming sensibly before valour.
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It feels a little strange for me to give thanks on my uncles behalf, but thank you all for your thoughts.
In a sense my Aunt and Uncle are fortunate(!) in that they were at another home of theirs. The home that was destroyed was being prepared for subdivision and eventual sale but it was their home for ~40 years, so the emotional attachment would still be large.
The home also still contained many of their personal items that hadn't yet been transferred and can never be replaced.
They're both pretty cut-up that their large vinyl collection is now gone, including many rare Beatles and blues albums.

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Hey! It's great to meet an Aussie lightning detectorer!

I operate the Omarama, NZ station.

The detector was up at the observatory at a little under 2,000m asl, but the intermittent nature of my Internet link drove me to transplant the station to the village below at around 430m asl. The detection rate's taken a bit of a hit, so I'm trying to remedy the internet issues up top so I can move the station back up there.

And thoughts to you guys battling fires. Good luck.
Hey! Another Blitzer Awesome.
I have met a few of the NZ guys on the NZWeather forum, but always good to meet another!
I have a second Red station that I had planned to set up at a farm in Nannup, around 300km south of Perth, however internet access is now an issue. I have trialled mobile broadband down there but it's a no go for any of the telco's that charge data by the kilobyte. There is good Telstra reception, but they charge in MegaByte blocks unfortunatelly
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Old 15-01-2014, 05:11 PM
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BOM have updated the weather for tomorrow in Melbourne.

44 degrees.

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35.5C at 12:30am! WOW!!

Winds have turned to northerly and we have a thick blanket of cloud trapping the heat, so there is a very good chance it won't go below 30C tonight, and we might break the record for the highest overnight low.

Thursday night into Friday looks like it could be the most epic of hot nights though, with an approaching cold front compressing all the heat ahead of it and 850hpa temps overnight are progged to be about 2C hotter than tonight.

Radar shows a thin band of light rain between Melbourne and the airport, but apparently this is a lightning active storm according to the lightning tracker.



Check this out:

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Old 15-01-2014, 06:25 PM
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Only reached 43.7 today in Adelaide (predicted max was 45). Still going for 46 tomorrow .
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Old 15-01-2014, 06:48 PM
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Can't give a figure for here today. Stupid (being very polite) outside transmitter stopped talking to the desk station and it took hours to get them reconnected.

Lesson learnt: Alkaline batteries each reading over 1.4V it doesn't mean three of them can power a nominally 4.5V transceiver. I've run out of power points to add another wall wart for the base station.

So tempted to get a Davis 6163.
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Old 15-01-2014, 07:12 PM
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I took 3 thermometers to the shed today to see what they said. 3 widely different results as expect. The one I believe (a preserving thermometer that goes up to 100C) said it was only 45, certainly felt hotter in there. Outside temp was 41.
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Old 15-01-2014, 08:56 PM
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39C at Laverton at midnight, and 36C+ in Melbourne at 2-3am, that's insanity. I was outside at 2am, the wind felt like a hairdryer and not only that, but it was spitting raindrops and there was some lightning flashes in the distance. Very unique.

Charlton in NW Vic had 46.5C yesterday, 46.2C today and 46C forecast in the area for both tomorrow and Friday. Could be 4 days in a row over 46C for them.

Tomorrow forecast 44C for Melbourne and 46C for Adelaide. Friday forecast is 29/42C for Melbourne, could be some new records set for high min temps on Thursday night.

48C predicted for Renmark tomorrow!!! I've been there for holidays a good 4 times in the last few years. I've been to Renmark many times , it's almost my second home

Some crazy obs in Renmark last night with a thunderstorm that passed through. Check it out
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Old 15-01-2014, 10:36 PM
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One interesting thing that has come with the heat wave....a spectacular lightening storm over Geelong way tonight.
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Old 16-01-2014, 02:01 AM
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I've been watching lightning flashing to the west, southwest, southeast and east for pretty much the entire evening. Had a short heavy shower just after sunset. Muggy and humid out, not even so much as a breath of wind. 29C at 1:30am

My brother in Traralgon reports spectacular electrical storm.
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Old 17-01-2014, 08:36 AM
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While Adelaide didn't reach the predicted max of 46, it still peaked at 44.2. We have now equaled the record for consecutive days (4) above 42. Our predicted max today is 42 so there's a chance we may break the record.

For my site, the minimum temperature was 32.3 @ 2.24 and was above 33 most of the night. In fact, it was a touch above 35 just after midnight.
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Old 17-01-2014, 03:02 PM
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Adelaide just cracked through the 42 degree barrier meaning we have broken our record for consecutive days (5) above 42.
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Old 17-01-2014, 03:13 PM
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It's almost like Adelaide and Melbourne are racing..
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Old 17-01-2014, 06:15 PM
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Cool change finally here. Temperature 32 and dropping!
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Old 17-01-2014, 10:21 PM
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But fires are still raging throughout SA and the Barossa.
I have friends and family on the run at the moment as some fires are out of control.
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Old 18-01-2014, 09:48 AM
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Smoke from the fires in the Barossa Valley caused the Moon to appear red.
My hubby took this photo late last night.
I was asleep and missed it.
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Old 18-01-2014, 11:32 AM
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All those fires are certainly getting a grip accross the south east of Australia. I was reading that the Grampians fires are creating their own weather patterns with dry storms not helping the situation.

It looks like I'll be off on deployment next week to give some crews a needy break, not sure where though at the moment, could be Vic, S.A or somewhere in NSW.
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