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With a light chase
season - we headed out to Narrabri and waited...and waited...and waited
until finally the cap broke at sunset, providing us with some fantastic
lightning opportunities!
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February 20, 2005
(Linked!)
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Another line of storms
moved through the Downs and produced some spectacular lightning with an
amazing night gustfront!
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February 17, 2005
(Linked!)
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A line of storms propagated
along the ranges producing some nice lightning to watch!
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February 16, 2005
(Linked!)
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An awesome HP Supercell
developed from a cluster of storms near the Cunningham Ranges and moved
northwards providing some spectacular structure!
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January 21, 2005
(Linked!)
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On what was a rather
marginal day, a nice storm moved over producing some pea size hail and
gales!
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December 17, 2004
(Linked!)
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Some spectacular updrafts
and a rather nice gustfront - some isolated storms developed across SE
Queensland, intensifying towards the coast!
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December 12, 2004
(Linked!)
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Quite a surprise,
that's for sure! Rather brief, but severe storm struck Grandchester,
with a tree snapping in half right in front of the car!!!
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December 8, 2004
(Linked!)
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A rather photogenic
gustfront moved over during the afternoon - was good for me as I was working
so could watch it out the window!
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December 7, 2004
(Linked!)
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Wow! One of
the best daytime CG shows I've ever witnessed, just incredible!!!
No report yet - I need to do video captures for this day!
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December 4, 2004
(Not linked!)
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A "Bubble Day" with
some spectacular updrafts - although one cell got organised and produced
a brief mesocyclone!
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December 3, 2004
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One word - INCREDIBLE!!!
Two supercells, including one MONSTER near Nanango!!! Massive wall
cloud, and numerous funnels!!! And huge CGs!
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December 2, 2004
(Linked!)
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After sweltering in
oven like conditions with temperatures in the low-mid 40s, a rather nice
and intense storm finally developed near Dubbo and moved towards Merriwa!
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December 1, 2004
(Linked!)
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An awesome day!
Chased a squall line for 400km through Outback Queensland, at one point
it eventually crossed the road in front of us nearly pushing both cars
off the road!
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November 21, 2004
(Linked!)
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What was nearly a
rather disappointing day was saved by a lightning show just outside of
Longreach!
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November 20, 2004
(Linked!)
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A nice little line
of storms developed near Quilpie in Outback Queensland and moved NE giving
a nice gustfront and a great little lightning show!
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November 19, 2004
(Linked!)
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The first day of a
stormchasing holiday - Thunder Downunder produced some weak storms and
a nice sunset!
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November 18, 2004
(Linked!)
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A vigorous trough
produced massive hail and a tornado on these days - Patrick Allwood videoed
this tornado on the right. I'll compile a report of the events in
the coming weeks!
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November 7-9, 2004
(Not Linked)
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Driving back home
from work/dinner after a day of storms I was still able to get some lightning
shots to the west of Brisbane.
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November 3, 2004
(Linked!)
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Some great lightning
off the NE NSW coast - a great experience sitting on the beach relaxing
to watching lightning!
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October 27, 2004
(Linked!)
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A right moving severe
storm moved from Toowoomba to Boonah - the chase seemed to be over in a
matter of minutes, but quite a beautiful back end of the storm!
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October 24, 2004
(Linked!)
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What a way to finish
a few days of chasing! Four hours of morning storms, then in the
afternoon an awesome gustfront followed by the best mammatus sunset I've
ever seen to date!!!
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October 20, 2004
(Linked!)
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Chasing the cold pool
northwards, we went into the Wide Bay and Burnett area which certainly
gave no shortage of storms! The highlight was a lightning illuminated
gustfront.
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October 18-19, 2004
(Linked!)
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A massive cold pool
pushed northwards and gave some rather nice lightning in the Downs during
the evening!
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October 17, 2004
(Linked!)
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Hot NW winds brought
bushfires near our property. We helped fight to save a friend's property
- you certainly got a real appreciation for what the RFS does! Some
photos of the event...
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October 8, 2004
(Linked!)
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First official day
of the chase season brought no shortage of supercells! Including
a possible tornado to my southwest while stuck at work!
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October 1, 2004
(Linked!)
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A cold pool gave some
nice offshore lightning - with hailstorms developing the next day across
SE Queensland and NE NSW!
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September 19-20, 2004
(Linked!)
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My first chase day
of the season! Some beautiful high based gustfronts were the feature
- topped off with a lightning show out to sea!
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September 5, 2004
(Linked!)
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I wasn't able to chase
on this day due to work, but I took a few photos on the day - the best
was a rainbow just after a storm moved over!
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September 4, 2004
(Linked!)
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What do you get when
you cross Riverfire with storms? Well - mostly fireworks, but there's
some captures of the CGs too!
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August 28, 2004
(Linked!)
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There is no misprint
of the date - yes this wonderful lightning show was in deed in winter!!!
A classic "verandah chase!"
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July 30, 2004
(Linked!)
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