Weather Warning Tuesday 06/12/11

[Jaak]

From the Bureau of Meteorology
Perth Forecast


“Warning summary
Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued.

Forecast for Tuesday
Rain periods easing to showers in the afternoon. A thunderstorm or two. Possible
heavy falls, damaging gusts and hail this afternoon. Generally E'ly winds,
variable in the afternoon.”


http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/forecasts/perth.shtml

[lowney]

Batten down the hatches

[Mad_Aussie]

Lay out on the lawn last night drinking beer and watching the lightning directly over our heads.. Not even enough rain to make us move from the grass. But the way it formed out of nowhere on the radar over rotto was pretty impressive. Blue patches that went straight to red without collecting $200. Love thunderstorms so much.

Personally I don't think we'll see big hail today though, not enough heat in the ground after yesterday

[Macca]

just parked car on front lawn with 100ml of car wash on it......Yearly wash complete

[Jumanji]

Lay out on the lawn last night drinking beer and watching the lightning directly over our heads.. Not even enough rain to make us move from the grass. But the way it formed out of nowhere on the radar over rotto was pretty impressive. Blue patches that went straight to red without collecting $200. Love thunderstorms so much.

Personally I don't think we'll see big hail today though, not enough heat in the ground after yesterday

Same sat out the back in Dianella around 7:30ish to watch the storm, I love it :D

[Jaak]

Personally I don't think we'll see big hail today though, not enough heat in the ground after yesterday

That is what I am thinking also , but I literally just pick up my car from mazda this morning after they replaced the turbo , not taking chances.

[Ryan1080]

Ever since that big hail storm happened, whenever there is a slight possibility of hail, pingpingpingpings now panic. Rocked up to work today and tried to park my car in my undercover bay, all the pingpingpingpings with uncovered bays pushed their way inside and triple parked. Farken annoying, we'll probably end up with a few drops of rain and that's probbaly all that will happen... again!

[Mad_Aussie]

tbh I wouldn't mind another massive storm, car is insured, hail dents would only serve to fund a big-hp golfball build lol. But that's just it, now every time there's even the slightest poofteenth of a mm of rain inbound, everyone panics like it's armageddon.

[DT95WA]

rain and thunder in baldivis now. hope it rains all day. lawn is loving it

[BLACK HULK]

My last car was written off in the big hail storm. The BOM is predicting large hail now too for anyone that hasnt seen the warning http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDW28202.txt

[Jumanji]

That is what I am thinking also , but I literally just pick up my car from mazda this morning after they replaced the turbo , not taking chances.

Not always the case. The temperature has drop significantly is a really short period of time. If that happens then we are screwed.

[dmwill]

Lay out on the lawn last night drinking beer and watching the lightning directly over our heads...

Heh. I went for a bike ride last night around 9pm along the coast. Kinda eerie feeling with the lighting over to the east.

[TJ]

BM Bouz

[Macca]

BM Bouz

Bomb Message?
Big Message?
Bright Message?
Baked Message?

[AGIT8D]

Why is this a 5 star thread? These weather threads are always a non-event. But to add to the outdoor evening stories, I floated around in my blow up pool yesterday afternoon drinking a beer, and now hope that if there are hail stones today they don't pierce the pool cover.

[AGIT8D]

+1 on the lawn too. I've been hammering my lawn with water and weed and feed trying to get it soft and green for Xmas, plus pulling out a ute full of weeds from them and some garden beds. This rain had better assist as I didn't get around to watering them all weekend.

[V70R]

Bomb Message?
Big Message?
Bright Message?
Baked Message?
Black Mugabe

[Mad_Aussie]

Black Mugabe
That's what you call a Truism

[mr_mike]

We done the same had been watching the storm on BoM track down from up north was a near perfect circle with red center with nothin around it.
Just had a look on BoM then and there is a pretty intense storm front movin down

[TJ]

Hailing in rocko and mandurah atm

[kiasu]

got an email from worley parson's...


Severe Thunderstorm Warning Tuesday 6 December

Folks,

At 7:00am this morning the Bureau of Metrology issued a severe thunderstorm warning for this afternoon (Tuesday 6 December 2011) so please take care if you are in the following areas or expect to be on the roads this afternoon.

We are expecting damaging winds, large hail and heavy rainfall for people located along the coast of WA between Perth and Mandurah and inland to York and Dalwallinu and the wider areas bounded by Jurien Bay, Mount Magnet, Leinster, Hyden and Dwellingup.

Storms may be accompanied by VERY HEAVY RAINFALL conducive to FLASH FLOODING,
LARGE HAIL and DAMAGING WINDS that could cause DAMAGE TO HOMES AND PROPERTY.

The overall weather pattern is not unusual for this time of year, but these thunderstorms may produce severe weather in localised areas.

WHAT TO DO
FESA State Emergency Service [SES] advises people to secure loose items, move vehicles under cover and stay inside away from windows.

If there is lightning unplug electrical appliances and avoid using landline telephones.

If caught outside find shelter away from trees, power lines, storm water drains and streams.

If driving through heavy rain slow down and turn your lights on or if visibility becomes low pull over and park until it passes.

For SES assistance call 132 500. For more safety tips visit www.fesa.wa.gov.au

This warning is also available through TV and Radio broadcasts; the Bureau's website at www.bom.gov.au The next update will be issued by 10:00 am today.

Ian Wilkinson
Managing Director
Australia West Operations


lol "black mugabe"

[AGIT8D]

Can you be more specific Teej? I'm in Mandurah, certainly no hail, I'd barely even call this a medium intensity rain.

[Stealthed]

Joondalup is just heavy rain and some decent lightning atm, I don't expect hail and if there was some it'd probably be that real tiny shit.

[Jaak]

Joondalup is just heavy rain and some decent lightning atm, I don't expect hail and if there was some it'd probably be that real tiny shit.

That suck, my poor sheep, left them out in in open paddock today

[Jumanji]

Joondalup is just heavy rain and some decent lightning atm, I don't expect hail and if there was some it'd probably be that real tiny shit.

That stuff doesnt damage cars hey?

[HIKARI]

Little speck of hail in basso

[Stealthed]

That suck, my poor sheep, left them out in in open paddock today

Lol, well personally I've never had an issue with that tiny spec sized hail on cars, it's never caused damage, normally just makes the ground look like it's covered in snow..

Can't say much for your sheep though. :D

[Mad_Aussie]

lol @ all the people on facebook saying 'yay hail, yay new car' and shit like that... That'll help with processing your insurance claim

[Macca]

Only thing close to hail is the tree that just crashed next to my car. Wonder if i can lift it and put car under it

[cplagz]

Weather is causing chaos at Perth airport. I was due to pickup family @ 11.50 .... they are still sitting on the tarmac.

[Jaak]

Can't say much for your sheep though. :D

Lol they went ape shit last night with the thunder , so I moved them to the farthest padock in the yard, aka desert island , but not n single fuck was given that night. They will hate me by tonight.:p

[baz]

lol @ all the people on facebook saying 'yay hail, yay new car' and shit like that... That'll help with processing your insurance claim
Yep ...and they are the ones who complain like bitches when :
A) next years premium goes up &
B)they have not got agreed value and get half the 'payout" they were expecting!

[Mad_Aussie]

Lol they went ape shit last night with the thunder , so I moved them to the farthest padock in the yard, aka desert island , but not n single fuck was given that night. They will hate me by tonight.:p

They sound delicious

[Ryan1080]

Weather is causing chaos at Perth airport. I was due to pickup family @ 11.50 .... they are still sitting on the tarmac.

Probably more to do with this:

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/gas-smell-at-perth-international-airport/story-e6frg12c-1226215332146

[Jaak]

They sound delicious

Only reason I put up with their shit, xmas dinner - yum yum, plus I dont have to mow the lawn EVER!

[lowney]

literally black outside here in south guildford, raining heavy and thunder/lightening but no hail yet

[Mad_Aussie]

Probably more to do with this:

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/gas-smell-at-perth-international-airport/story-e6frg12c-1226215332146


....investigating the small of gas.

Phew, imagine if it was a big of gas!

[skidkid]

Weather is causing chaos at Perth airport. I was due to pickup family @ 11.50 .... they are still sitting on the tarmac.

Flights have been on the tarmac since 10am, apparently 50+ there at the moment

[Stealthed]

Only reason I put up with their shit, xmas dinner - yum yum, plus I dont have to mow the lawn EVER!

For some reason I could go a kebab right now..

also Lol@Perthnow's stuff up, they make so many mistakes on their articles haha

[Mad_Aussie]

Hehehe yeah, I submitted that same comment, they fixed the article pretty quick :P

[V70R]

Weather is causing chaos at Perth airport. I was due to pickup family @ 11.50 .... they are still sitting on the tarmac.
I saw a big QANTAS flight take off last night and head out towards Rotto, then do a quick U-turn and head back to the airport.

[kiasu]

Have been sitting on a Qantas plane that flew in to Perth domestic airport from Sydney, landing over 4 hours ago. However, we have been stuck on the tarmac since arriving. Passengers have not been able to disembark due to no airport ground staff being able to work aerobridges etc in these storm conditions (lightning etc). Looking out window of plane now and it doesn't look to be easing. We got on this plane in Sydney 9.5 hours ago and don't look to be getting off any time soon! The natives are getting very restless (and hungry). Not good.


lolz...

[Stealthed]

I saw a big QANTAS flight take off last night and head out towards Rotto, then do a quick U-turn and head back to the airport.

Qantas's idea of an overseas flight..

[Ryan1080]

You'd be spewing if you were on a Virgin flight, stuck in your cramped seat for ten hours lol!

[AGIT8D]

You'd be spewing if you were on a Virgin flight, stuck in your cramped seat for ten hours lol!

I went to Sydney last month and back to Perth from Canberra. VB flight had WAY more leg room than Qantas. And fuckin' TVs yo.

Still no hail in Mandurah, not sure what the Teej was on about.

[Tocchi]

was driving on the freeway today .... perth drivers at their best.
lots of water spray, but fuck half the speed limit at lunchtime on fwy... gahh

[BOOST3D21]

Stuck in Newman for the night shithouse

[Mad_Aussie]

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
for Damaging Winds, Large Hail and Heavy Rainfall
For people in parts of WA in an area bounded by Jurien Bay, Mount Magnet,
Leinster, Hyden and Bunbury and the coast. This includes people in, near or
between Perth, Mandurah, York, Dalwallinu, Narrogin, Bunbury and the coast.
Issued at 4:00 pm on Tuesday 6 December 2011

A surface trough near the west coast in combination with a middle level
disturbance approaching from the west is producing an area of showers and
thunderstorms. People are advised that there is the risk of SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
during the remainder of Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Watching the radar, I thought that the 4.00 update would pretty much cancel the storm warning for us here in Perth... but it's been re-issued into the evening now.
In saying that, even though todays storms were huge on the radar and evident way before they got to Perth, last nights systems just built up out of nowhere right on the shore. So maybe more lightning, woot!

[lowney]

Called mrs she said no Hail in rocko that she could see and one of our reps was in the Port kennedy area and said the same thing?

[cplagz]

Family is still sitting on the tarmac.

It's getting beyond a f*cking joke now. Unload passengers into the rain, walk/bus across tarmac and delivery bags later.

What makes it worse is its my old man's bday today and we had stuff planned for this evening. FU Perth Airport.

[magic1]

Family is still sitting on the tarmac.

It's getting beyond a f*cking joke now. Unload passengers into the rain, walk/bus across tarmac and delivery bags later.

What makes it worse is its my old man's bday today and we had stuff planned for this evening. FU Perth Airport.

been a long day mate?

http://www.timelesstransport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/chauffeurRollsRoyce.jpg

[anton]

they love making you wait, if they unloaded people now they would have the hours of waiting for their luggage to complain..
make sure they give you stuff for your troubles...

[mr_mike]

pretty intense lilttle storm goin over Perth center at the moment on BoM

[mys1]

Yet blue skies in Scarborough... Go figure

[Ryan1080]

pretty intense lilttle storm goin over Perth center at the moment on BoM

I'm posting this three minutes after your post, and I can confidently report that half of the sky here is clear blue lol. wtf

[mehow2g]

gf just called shes on freeway getting hailed on but i dont think they are big.

[Mad_Aussie]

Just like the systems last night, forms extremely violent little cells out of clear blue skies... That little cell passed straight over us here, intense rain that lasted a solid five minutes, and now the suns starting to come out again.

[magic1]

marc,

i don't know what your on about

im http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/003/619/Untitled-1.jpg?1288903617

[Breno]

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/radar/wa

tick the lighting box. Perth airport getting / got owned. :/

[Charger]

Nothing happening out here, but apparently flights back to Perth tonight are cancelled.

[AGIT8D]

gf just called shes on freeway getting hailed on but i dont think they are big.

Yeah but how's the weather?

[Fukushima]

Family is still sitting on the tarmac.

It's getting beyond a f*cking joke now. Unload passengers into the rain, walk/bus across tarmac and delivery bags later.

What makes it worse is its my old man's bday today and we had stuff planned for this evening. FU Perth Airport.


my bet is on precious union staff refusing to go out into the rain and delaying so they can get overtime

unless the weather has really been that bad all day

[KyeBidz]

Its a safety thing.
If there is lightning around, they don't let the airport workers out.
Hence no air bridges, people securing planes etc.

Same at all airports.

[Ph03NiX]

pics of gf?

been a really weird day so far!

[mr_mike]

my bet is on precious union staff refusing to go out into the rain and delaying so they can get overtime

unless the weather has really been that bad all day

I work just behind the airport its been pissin it down and thunder/lightning all day. We even had a small lighting strike in the yard at work.

[Brute]

I work just behind the airport its been pissin it down and thunder/lightning all day. We even had a small lighting strike in the yard at work.

Yep, multiple strikes in and around the airport today.

[cplagz]

Its a safety thing.
If there is lightning around, they don't let the airport workers out.
Hence no air bridges, people securing planes etc.

Same at all airports.

Except the intl airport kept running no worries and Virgin kept unloading passengers at domestic..... I'll be interested to see if anyone makes any calls about industrial action being disguised or not.


As a side note. FUCK the weather.

Killed my Billion 7404VNPX and 2x Integrated NICs on seperate PCs.

[anton]

just Resurrect this thread, pelting down ... either the power is out in the city or its raining that hard that i cant see the city from my place...

[Halle Terry]

Had some fucking rad lightning and shit down my way with torrential rain, so so sick.

[JBAE]

best weather EVER! fuck your summer pole smokers!!! :)

[XsQuiZiT]

City copped a black out, pretty cool looking out on St Georges Tce seeing darkness then the lights slowly coming back on towards Kings Park.

Lucky work has a generator otherwise I'd be pissed

[TJ]

Our basketball game got cancelled cos it rained that hard the roof leaked.

Driving home was insane - constant lightning, Alexander drive was flooded. Luckily no hail.

[Skitzo]

Garage flooded.

[Jaak]

Our 15m Tree called it quits and fell on my gate , fence and over the power lines. If it fell the other way , it would have been a sad end for me !

[Jumanji]

Garage flooded.

+1 same here, obviously the builder screwed the fall up on the paving as there in a 2 inch high line that runs around the whole Garage.

And TJ, Dianella & Morley saw light Hail around 6:00pm.

[AGIT8D]

This weather keeps bailing me out on days I forget to water the lawns.. Good shit.

[Mad_Aussie]

We had hail at about 6.30ish (I suppose) yesterday arvo out in Huntingdale, only little stuff that lasted for a few minutes. Lightning was spectacular!

[Roobiks]

I was out on the tarmac last night and lighning hit a light pole I was standing next to. Blew all the electrics in the near by aerobridge. Was unreal!

[mr_mike]

I heard the westrac building in welshpool got hit by lightning and knocked out the electrics to the whole workshop

[RELEASE]

My room was the only one that got flooded in our house last night. Coming out of light, down the walls from the cornice, out of top power point & antenna/foxtel point...fun fun removing shit while it was filling up with no power.

Now to put it all back in and see what goes pop and what doesn't so the insurance company can replace lol