Brisbane • Wed 8 Nov 2006
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Today was a
spectacular day on radar with
many cells (including two
supercells) in SE Qld. I worked
until midday, and was free until
around 2pm when I had a brief appointment, but this kept me
in Brisbane until after 2pm. Storms had fired early today and
they were huge. So unfortunately,
I couldn't get out west to watch
them start.
At 12:30pm
the first cell was already black
on radar (producing the heaviest
rain on the scale and often a
sign of hail) just north of Gatton and by 1:20pm had
anvilled out over Brisbane. This
is the view north from Mt
Coot-tha at 1:20pm:
Southwards
and another massive cell was
moving NE across Kyogle in NSW,
but was well and truly visible
from Mt Coot-tha:
At 1:20pm,
our SE Qld storm to the NW was
dumping 8cm hail on Esk.
New storms
were now firing up behind it.
After 2pm I was obligation-free
but with so much activity around,
I was confused as to where to go.
I went out
to Marburg which I knew had
good views west. The cells
were tracking NE across (and just
to the W) of Marburg. I really
expected to see some base
features, but all it offered was
lots of heavy rain and some
decent lightning which I couldn't
photograph.
 
At 3pm,
with Esk in the path of more
activity, I decided to head
north. I wasn't keen to get under
the rain (or any hail) so I
backed off a bit and tried to
catch some lightning. This is just outside Fernvale:
 
With so much rain around, there actually
wasn't that much to see.
More cells
were developing to the south and
heading NE towards Boonah /
Beaudesert, so I headed down the
Ipswich-Boonah Rd.
For a while
it didn't seem like there was
much storm activity, but as it
got dark I started getting some
decent but infrequent lightning.
 
Trying to keep the persistent rain off the camera was a constant challenge.
 
It was a
long day having gone straight out
after work (which started at
4:30am) and not getting home till
about 9pm. Today would've seemed
like a storm-lover's dream with
the giant hail in Esk, golf-ball
sized hail on the Gold Coast,
a possible tornado in Woodford, and the incredible
activity that showed up on radar.
But for me there was too
much rain. This made is difficult
to photograph and also to decide
where exactly to go. Then when it
finally got dark, there was very
little lightning. Overall, it was quite
a strange day.
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