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Melbourne Hailstorm

Michael Bath on March 9, 2010 in Asw, Cbd, Diameter, Discussion Forum, Early Warning, Ewn, Flash Floods, Flood, Forum Thread, Giant Hail, Golf Ball Size, Gorilla, Hail, Hail Damaged Vehicles, Hail Insurance, Hail Stones, Hail Storms, Hailstones, Hailstorm, Hailstorms, Heavy Rain, Hp, Hp Supercell, Melbourne, Melbourne Members, No Doubt, Property Losses, Roofs, Sms, Storm Photos, Storm Track, Suburbs Of Melbourne, Victoria, Warning Network, dent, flash flooding, hail footage, losses, reduce, shelter, thedentshed, vehicles Comments Off
The Melbourne hailstorm does appear to be unprecedented for Victoria in delivering gorilla sized hailstones. Hailstones up to 10cm diameter were reported by a Bureau observer south east of the CBD. The damage to vehicle and roofs in some areas leaves no doubt there was massive hail. Most other suburbs along the storm track appear [...]

Tropical Cyclone Maps Section Updated, and Heavy Rain and Floods

Michael Bath on April 8, 2009 in Asw, Flood, Google, Google Maps, Heavy Rain, Inspiration, Labels, Latter Versions, Maps Section, Nsw Floods, Operational Data, Plotting Software, Rainfall, Rainfalls, Richmond, Severe Weather, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Tropical Cyclone, Tweed, Weather Website, storm storms tornadoes chasing and hailstorms Comments Off
I’ve pretty much finished my project to revamp the Tropical Cyclones section on ASW. I guess it is Version 4 !! This all started back in 1987 when I first plotted BoM dataset maps on paper – thanks to inspiration from a couple of big NE NSW floods. In 1996 I scanned those and put [...]

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