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NSW weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 12:32 pm
by Dusty
Terrible conditions here on the Central Coast, also in the Hunter and Sydney Metro areas.

Flooding, trees uprooted, no power, schools closed, 135 km per hour winds.

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 12:54 pm
by reptar
Not even content with stealing the Origin cup, NSW is now also stealing Queensland's weather?

NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 12:56 pm
by -TW-
I'll take the freezing winds over that stuff anyday

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 12:57 pm
by Raider Bell
reptar wrote:Not even content with stealing the Origin cup, NSW is now also stealing Queensland's weather?
:lol:

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 1:44 pm
by Toviii
NSW - too good for the regular Weather Thread

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 2:19 pm
by reptar
Stay safe everyone - looks awful!

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 2:59 pm
by Green_Hammock
I thought Canberra was bad but it looks pretty rough up there. Stay safe!

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 3:25 pm
by Chickas shoe
saw some crazy footage of houses going down the street in Dungog and someone surfing lefts off the Opera House at Bennelong Point into Farm Cove.

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 3:30 pm
by Chickas shoe
the surfing one's faked apparently

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 3:34 pm
by Raider Bell
Few elderly persons have passed away in Dungog. Pretty sad.

Re: NSW Weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 3:41 pm
by Dusty
My workplace (school) had a tree fall through my classroom roof today... Luckily the school had been closed and I had left an hour or so beforehand.

Re: NSW weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 9:50 pm
by Schifty
Image

Re: NSW weather

Posted: April 21, 2015, 10:22 pm
by julian87
Missed us on the North Coast but the weather banks we could see to the South at times looked brutal. Upper Hunter has been absolutely devastated.

Re: NSW weather

Posted: April 22, 2015, 8:24 am
by Seiffert82
Thankfully climate change doesn't exist, otherwise things me might have gotten really hairy. These bizarre weather patterns are becoming way too commonplace.

/political commentary.

Looks horrendous up there. I hope everyone stays safe and I hope the buggers at the Holiday Inn parked our car undercover on Sunday while I'm enjoying the sunshine up in QLD.

Re: NSW weather

Posted: April 22, 2015, 8:25 am
by Seiffert82
Schifty wrote:Image
Is that legit? :shock:

Re: NSW weather

Posted: April 22, 2015, 8:45 am
by Raidersrawesome
One of the pictures on here has a similar cloud front

http://www.news.com.au/national/sydney- ... 7313209469

Re: NSW weather

Posted: April 22, 2015, 9:03 am
by Green eyed Mick
Seiffert82 wrote:Thankfully climate change doesn't exist, otherwise things me might have gotten really hairy. These bizarre weather patterns are becoming way too commonplace.

/political commentary.

Looks horrendous up there. I hope everyone stays safe and I hope the buggers at the Holiday Inn parked our car undercover on Sunday while I'm enjoying the sunshine up in QLD.
Some modelling suggests that the type of East Coast low that is responsible for this weather event will become less frequent due to climate change.

Re: NSW weather

Posted: April 22, 2015, 9:16 am
by Stuat
Green eyed Mick wrote:
Seiffert82 wrote:Thankfully climate change doesn't exist, otherwise things me might have gotten really hairy. These bizarre weather patterns are becoming way too commonplace.

/political commentary.

Looks horrendous up there. I hope everyone stays safe and I hope the buggers at the Holiday Inn parked our car undercover on Sunday while I'm enjoying the sunshine up in QLD.
Some modelling suggests that the type of East Coast low that is responsible for this weather event will become less frequent due to climate change.
I thought that modelling suggested they would become less frequent, but potentially stronger. So less ECLs (which occur several times each winter) and more events like this one would still be consistent with the modelling.

I should try and track down a link, but I can't be bothered.

To everyone in the Sydney/Hunter region, stay safe.

Re: NSW weather

Posted: April 22, 2015, 11:42 am
by Seiffert82
I'd hate to be a weather modeler. I have to rely on that type of info for my job. To say it's indicative at best is being generous.

It's nightmare stuff trying to predict what the long term future holds with regards to extreme weather events. I'm too old to spend my time trying to understand what model is the least accurate when we can't even forecast stuff like this coming a week before it hits (to this extent).