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Gust front (Shelf Cloud)

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:48 pm
by thelastname
After some much needed rain we got this gust front come through ahead of the cool change on Saturday night bring some more rain. C & C welcome.

Tower Hill
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Warrnambool
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:50 pm
by PiroStitch
holy :shock:

that's insane!!! would love to have the opportunity to capture some storm fronts. did you get any lightning shots if any?

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:21 pm
by Kyle
Spectacular!!!! :D :D

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:26 pm
by Lukaszek
Excellent Photos.

I love the feeling when something big like that is coming. You can feel the tension in the air!

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:39 pm
by Oscar
Nature is just so awesome. Great captures.

Cheers, Mick :) :) :)

PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:39 am
by Stargazer
I'm yet to photograph anything like that ... lovely shots! :D

PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:31 am
by Killakoala
Fantastic images. I love extreme weather shots like those.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:00 pm
by thelastname
Thanks for your comments everyone. :)

These sort of events are rare, but worth viewing. I was watching it build on the radar most of the afternoon west of Mt Gambier, but it was dying as it moved east. But was still pretty spectacular when it reached here 4 hours later.

There was no lighting or thunder as it was not a thunder storm. Just a gust front on a cool change / cold front.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:20 pm
by mark
WOW.
Cool change = Cool shot. :)

PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:21 pm
by Jonesy
thelastname wrote:Thanks for your comments everyone. :)

These sort of events are rare, but worth viewing. I was watching it build on the radar most of the afternoon west of Mt Gambier, but it was dying as it moved east. But was still pretty spectacular when it reached here 4 hours later.

There was no lighting or thunder as it was not a thunder storm. Just a gust front on a cool change / cold front.


Yeah I was in a wedding and we were doing photos watching it come towards us. No storm, just plenty of rain and wind!

This is part of the same system that sunk about 30 cars on the beach at Kingston Saturday night/Sunday morning...
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21095504-5006301,00.html