8 November 2011

Dark skies and storm warning

| johnboy
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dark sky over civic

Looks like a doozy of a storm moving in, for all that we’re not in the warning zone.

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Hail and raining-so-hard-you’d-best-pull-over out in Gungahlin at about 1:30.

Little_Green_Bag said :

Good thing I mowed the lawn yesterday . . .

Just in time to mow it again on the weekend.

Looks like we might get round 2 in the next hour or so.

Little_Green_Bag2:50 pm 08 Nov 11

Good thing I mowed the lawn yesterday . . .

Meh, it was nothing. Hit me at the arboretum & continued all the way back to the city. I got wet but that was is.

Passed over Kaleen with more of a whimper than a bang.

More planes are pushing back, so the electric stuff and wind shear risk must have passed to the east. That was a fierce storm while it lasted.

There’s not a great deal of wind yet out Queanbeyan way, but we’ve already had a good dump of rain.

BOM as at 1:09 pm puts us in the warning zone for large hailstones and damaging wind.

They’ve included ACT in warning now.

We are about to get smashed. And I’m on a flight to Melbourne shortly. argh. Hopefully it’ll sail through. Reports of a storm at Bombala over night, they reckon there was a twister in it, relocated roofs and sheds galore.

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