Lightning North of Tamworth, NSW - January 24th 2009. Photo: Rhett Blanch
Early January saw the severe weather just keep coming in Queensland with storms and floods. Meanwhile in SE Australia it was either cold, with record breaking cool temperatures in Victoria, or hot which is more to be expected at this time of year.
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Isolated thunderstorm West of Tamworth, NSW - 26th December 2008. Photo: Rhett Blanch
The great or bad (depending on your perpective) storm season in North East NSW and South East Queensland continued into December. A low pressure system in the South East brought the challenging conditions with strong winds and flooding in Victoria.
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Jimmy Degaura of www.australiasevereweather.com has captured what must be some of the most extraordinary footage (13mb file) of a tornado on the ground in Australia at Dunoon near Lismore on 26th October. An initial assessment by Jimmy and Michael Bath rate it as an F-1 tornado:
initial reports and photos - Jimmy Deguara et al.
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