Squall Line Western Sydney, NSW 2nd December 2005. Photo: Rhett Blanch
The late November - early December period is commonly viewed as the best period for chasing storms in Eastern Australia as the passage of frontal systems with associated troughs bring the right conditions for storms to fire. Thunder Down Under (TDU), as it is termed, is an informally arranged period when many storm chasers hit the roads to observe and capture these storms on film. We’ll try and bring together as many of their reports as we can find over this period.
- New 18/12: Michael Bath, Dave Ellem and Rodney Wallbridge - 17th December, 2005 - Northern Rivers, NSW - Spectacular Supercells
- New 06/01/06: Marty Pouwelse - 14th - 24th December - Darwin, NT - Top End Storm Chasing with Amazing Pictures
- David Findlay - 14th December, 2005 - Gold Coast, QLD - Corkscrew Rotating Updraft.
- Michael Bath - 13th December, 2005 - Northern Rivers, NSW - Chase Report
- Marty Pouwelse - December 8th 2005 - Brisbane, QLD - Brisbane Gustfront.
- David Findlay - 8th December, 2005 - Brisbane, QLD - Brisbane Gustfront.
- Dave Ellem and Michael Bath - 7th - 9th December - North Coast, NSW - Chase reports.
- Dave Ellem - 2nd December, 2005 - Northern Rivers, NSW - Shelf clouds.
- Michael Thompson - November 25th - December 2nd - Beautiful chase diary.
- The TDU Forum Pages have some amazing photos from these and other chasers updated frequently.
- Tim Thorpe - December 5th - 6th, 2005 - Adelaide, NSW - Great Lightning photos.
- New 06/01/06: - December 2nd, 2005 - Sydney, NSW - Squall Line Chase across Sydney
- Laurier Williams - December 2nd, 2005 - Detailed report on storms across three states
- Marty Pouwelse - December 1, 2005 - Brisbane, QLD - Some Exceptional Lightning Photos
- Marty Pouwelse - November 29th, 2005 - Brisbane, QLD
- Margaret Grubb - November 29th, 2005 - Brisbane, QLD - Spectacular Lowering
- Marty Pouwelse - November 27th, 2005 - Brisbane, QLD
- Anthony Cornelius - November 26th, 2005 - Mungindi Supercell
- Tim Eckert - November 22nd, 2005 - Coonabarabran - Gunnedah - Narrabri, NSW
- Tim Eckert - November 23rd, 2005 - Narrabri NSW
- Marty Pouwelse - November 22nd, 2005 - Brisbane, QLD