The Brisbane storm on you tube

[chunky]

If you want to see how fierce this storm is watch the whole 3mins 51 secs and you will see just how strong this thunderstorm was. It's amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skrnDGl1LxQ&feature=related

[chunky]

Especially when the second bit hits.

[The Frog]

now that is cool....well not if you were up there I spose.

[Polaris]

afternoon breeze from the Snowies! graemlins/cold.gif

[chunky]

And this is a photo from yesterday's storm :eek:

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6382335,00.jpg

[ 04.12.2008, 11:34 PM: Message edited by: chunky ]

[Xena]

Cool photo Chunky!

[Xena]

Great youtube link - that is bloody amazing, I've never seen anything like that!

[chunky]

Not mine but it sure is a beauty!

[Xena]

Whose?

[Bear]

Originally posted by Xena.:
Great youtube link - that is bloody amazing, I've never seen anything like that! Was not fun to be driving in either. :(

[chunky]

Originally posted by Xena.:
Whose? A local who got her photo in the Courier Mail today.

[chunky]

Originally posted by Bear:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Xena.:
Great youtube link - that is bloody amazing, I've never seen anything like that! Was not fun to be driving in either. :( </font>[/QUOTE]I hit the outskirts of it around Bardon and am kicking myself for not taking photos.

[Viminalis]

That second half is some of the most amazing footage I've ever seen! So much rain you'd be swimming.

[BlueHue]

crazy! I like storms but not so sure I'd want to be stuck in the middle of that one.

[Podlettte]

I got an sms saying I should not be working, I should be here looking at Chunky's link

I can see why! :eek: wow, that's one intense storm/cyclone!!! :eek:

BH - I would! so logn as I wasnt driving

[Viminalis]

Its interesting that even though it wasn't a cyclone, it still seemed to have an 'eye', with a period of calm in the middle.

[SnowSnow]

:eek: :eek: I love the notes at the bottom.

[BlueHue]

Originally posted by Viminalis:
Its interesting that even though it wasn't a cyclone, it still seemed to have an 'eye', with a period of calm in the middle. I could make such a nerd of myself responding to this with a sciencey description of how it all works
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[Podlettte]

Go on then tongue.gif Don't let nerd factor stop you, I'd like to know smile.gif

[Viminalis]

Would be its similar to a cyclone, just on a smaller scale?

[BlueHue]

Geeze I could write a ten page essay on this!

The eye structure yes I think similar processes cause it, the overall system that eventually develops no. Cyclones have a huge source of energy to draw from ie very warm oceans, so even though they may start out through similar processes to a storm they inevitably grow to a much larger scale than thunderstorms and in doing so take on a whole different structure which involves an eye. I would think (not sure) that only a very small percentage of storms are strong and big enough to develop any form of eye structure and even then I doubt it would not be anything like one in a cyclone.

Basically in the first instance both cyclones and storms start out as hot air at the earths surface thats rising (the warmer air is the less dense it is so the more inclined to rise and be replaced by colder air rushing in underneath it). If this process gets suitably intense than the bit in the middle of the cyclone where the air is rising becomes the eye where everything is calm. Rising air at the surface is not going to be very windy but the air on either side of it rushing to move in and replace the rising air can be very windy hence cyclones often have the most intense bit right on either side of the wall. The more intense the process of rising air in the middle/eye, the more intense the storm/cyclone generally (especially if there is a good soure of moisture available ie a nice warm ocean).

Well thats how I remember it from my studies many years ago. The whole thing is also a ****eload more complicated than that!

[chunky]

Well it made sense to me. Where's slipper to make some comments?

[Farty The Snowman]

Yep pretty good vid!