Issued at 10:56 pm Thursday, 1 January 2009.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce large hailstones, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and damaging winds in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Murwillumbah, Byron Bay, Ballina, Casino and Kyogle.
Tonight’s Storm might provide some relief from the thick hot air we have been swimming in the last few days. This storm looks to be a bit different as it’s driving in from the North West, so it is unlikely to come dropping a cool Southerly Change and a chance to ride with only a normal supply of water! That will come in the next couple of days, hopefully. It reminds me of the build-up to the wet in Far Nth Qld, drip, drip, drip of your sweat and the ting, ting, ting as the ceiling fan rotates providing the only baby breath of a breeze… I’d hate to be any further from the coast than we are this week!
The lightning and low rumbling is now turning into strong flashes and ground shaking cracks so I might as well get outside and take in natures own New Years Eve spectacle.
Updated:
Issued at 12:28 am Friday, 2 January 2009.
Severe thunderstorms are no longer occurring in NSW and the ACT.
All in all so far a bit of a fizzer for us…. but for some, a weatherzone forum storm chaser named Bodie, got this picture at Kilcoy
and the day after another got this one of the magnificent sunset
fingers says:
Looks like we missed out on it, just a light show really, splitting to the west and east right around us, but Ballina might have got the bulk of it as well as the Ranges. At least it did drop the temperature a little… there’s hope for tomorrow. Wait and see!
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