Details and video here.
Hail that covered the ground like snow along the Gold Coast, photo below:
Photo: Isabelle Vallin-Thorpe who writes – Photos taken tonight from where we live, Gold Coast hinterland. I nearly slid off the road, brakes got jammed, too much hail and snow… which is holding in some areas.
h/t to reader Ray
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Welcome to Aussie Cooling. The SH will not be spared …
For us Northern Hemisphere folk, note the clockwise rotation. It feels very odd to see.
…yep..”snow on the Gold Coast”…no Climate change going on there..none at all.
I’ve seen water spouts on the Southern Oregon coast, and this is quite impressive.
Cold air and instability do amazing things..
jcrabb, your lack of /sarc suggests you are being sarcastic. You will get tired of saying that every snow storm and hot spell and drought and flood are due to man-made global warming. You will get tired of being laughed off the stage.
“Oh, look, big shiney thing in sky – global warming”
“Oh, look, big shiney thing in sky disappeared = sacrifices to bring it back”
jcrabb says on May 30, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Well, that’s because of the global warming, don’t you see. The acceleration of the hydrological cycle due to global warming has confused the hydrological cycle so it produces snow and hail in places where it should produce rain, and it produces cool weather and rain in places where it should produce sunshine. It’s all teleconnected!
Aussies on the east cost have had a shocking year. On this side of the Tasman – at least in northern climes – it has been fantastic. Record high May temps, close to it through April. all on the back of a gorgeous summer. No drought, either, though it was looking a bit that way last spring.
All of which was entirely predictable with such a massive La Nina extending well into the west Pacific. Climate change? Well, it was certainly a profound change from the immediately preceding El Nino.
Oh dear, it’s worse than we thought. The science has settled even further. Like a bad chest cold. I have a feeling we’re not in New South Wales anymore. C’nardly wait for the Aussie Climate Madhouse to respond to this.
Robert: Just like the claim – yep its cooling! Cuts both ways.
jcrabb says:
May 30, 2011 at 5:12 pm
A better response would be:
…yep..”snow on the Gold Coast”…no Global Warming going on there..none at all.
You see, the invention of the term ‘Climate Change’ was a master-stroke of propaganda. Anything notable, anything at all, can be labelled ‘Climate Change’, and it almost always is by the CAGW faithful. The inconvenient truth is that it has pretty much always happened before, and there is no trend in any of these changes. What we are seeing right now is unusually cold weather, and have done for a few years now. To magically equate that with, and put forth as evidence of, Global Warming (its true moniker) is truly fatuous.
The photo must be a special effect done in photoshop because Bill Nye The Science Guy says that tornadoes only happen in America.
[;)]
Temperatures/climate are just cycling back to 1970’s levels. (as some of the better informed , not AGW brainwashed, real climate scientists have suggested they would do)
To say that hail storms on the east coast of Australia, and waterspouts are something that is different and unusual, obviously has never lived on the east coast of Australia for any length of time.
and Jcrabb.. it was hail, NOT snow on the gold coast. do learn to read !!
The ice core record is quite clear on this- hail and water spouts only occur during CO2 induced global warming at the end of a La Nina and after a long and deep solar minimum.
Now..sarc off
Never been skiing?
From Channel 7:
“Several powerful columns of swirling air could be seen blasting along the water’s surface near the coastline. Channel 7 claimed the spouts reached heights of up to 600 metres (nearly two thousand feet), but dissipated as they neared land. The natural wonders came as strong winds and heavy rain also lashed other parts of the state, causing flash flooding and traffic chaos in Sydney.”
How many people were killed? Is this a weather report or an ad for Paradise Island?
That is probably the most dramatic waterspout footage I have ever seen. Then the camera pans away and shows a second, and a third.
Then WHAT was UP with the water falling off the cliff being blown backwards?
Does water fall the opposite direction Down Under, as well? 😉
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Water Spouts are common in Australian waters – it’s just you don’t have a helicopter around every day to film them.
Here’s a Clip of hailstorms during a cricket match in Brisbane
Hailstones in 1992 Gabba
an endless piece with endless misinformation:
Newsweek: Sharon Begley: Are You Ready for More?
In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal. Newsweek’s Sharon Begley on why we’re unprepared for the harrowing future, and how adapting to the inevitable might be our only option…
Even those who deny the existence of global climate change are having trouble dismissing the evidence of the last year…
Scientists disagree about whether climate change will bring more intense or frequent tornadoes, but there is wide consensus that the 2 degrees Fahrenheit of global warming of the last century is behind the rise in sea levels, more intense hurricanes, more heat waves, and more droughts and deluges. Even if the world went carbon-neutral tomorrow, we’d be in for more: Because of the CO2 that has already been emitted, we’re on track for an additional 5 degrees of warming. Batten down the hatches. “You can no longer say that the climate of the future is going to be like the climate of today, let alone yesterday,” says Judi Greenwald, vice president of innovative solutions at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. “In all of the plausible climate scenarios, we are going to have to change the way we do things in ways we can’t even predict.”…
So what lies behind America’s resistance to action? Economist Sachs points to the lobbying power of industries that resist acknowledgment of climate change’s impact. “The country is two decades behind in taking action because both parties are in thrall to Big Oil and Big Coal,” says Sachs. “The airwaves are filled with corporate-financed climate misinformation.”….
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-29/global-climate-change-freak-storms-are-the-new-normal/full/#
“Bill Nye The Science Guy says that tornadoes only happen in America.” – he’s sort of right. In Australia we have the ‘Willy-Willy’ rather than tornadoes. It’s only in recent times I have heard the local news start to refer to them as ‘mini-tornadoes’. (I’m Adelaide South Australia)
Oh! and waterspouts have always been called …… ‘waterspouts’. 🙂
R. Gates says:
May 30, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Ahh Mr Gates – you do have a sense of humour.
Beautiful mild warm autumn across the ditch. Very little snow on Southern Alps with ski several fields normally opening within the next few weeks. Skiers are getting worried.
to savethesharks.
Quite often when these thunderstorms hit we have pretty high on-shore (south easterly) winds. These hit the cliffs and are forced up and over, causing the effect as seen. Pretty cool image, hey.
Sort of like when we get a strong offshore breeze, and it blows the spray backwards off the top of the break.
Oh, and I remember when I was young, and the old FJ Holden got caught in a hail storm. dimpled roof there-after, and the steel was rather thicker than what is used now.
WOW! A water spout ‘hat trick’! That is amazing footage!!! It looks like science fiction footage from some ‘alien landscape’!
At the age of 7 or so, I saw a tornado drop down on to Big Green Lake, in Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and become a water spout. The tornado/water spout column flashed to misty white when it hit the water. My recollection is that it only lasted for 15 – 30 seconds and then retreated back into the low clouds.
Waterspout – tornado … they all look alike to the untrained eye, but in reality they are a different beasts.
Per: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/apx/science/waterspouts/waterspouts.php
1. What is a Waterspout?
Persons living in northern Michigan are well aware that the Great Lakes have a profound impact on local weather patterns. Examples include heavy lake effect snows in winter, and cooling lake breezes in summer. As the end of the summer season approaches, another type of unique Great Lakes weather phenomena is possible — the waterspout. The following waterspout photo was taken over Lake Huron in the fall of 1999 [see link above].
Dr. Joseph Golden, a distinguished waterspout authority with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), defines the waterspout as a “funnel which contains an intense vortex, sometimes destructive, of small horizontal extent and which occurs over a body of water.” The belief that a waterspout is nothing more than a tornado over water is only partially true. The fact is, depending on how they form, waterspouts come in two types: tornadic and fair weather.
Tornadic waterspouts generally begin as true tornadoes over land in association with a thunderstorm, and then move out over the water. They can be large and are capable of considerable destruction. Fair weather waterspouts, on the other hand, form only over open water.
They develop at the surface of the water and climb skyward in association with warm water temperatures and high humidity in the lowest several thousand feet of the atmosphere. They are usually small, relatively brief, and less dangerous. The fair weather variety of waterspout is much more common than the tornadic.
Waterspouts occur most frequently in northern Michigan during the months of August, September, and October, when the waters of the Great Lakes are near their warmest levels of the year. Waterspout formation typically occurs when cold air moves across the Great Lakes and results in large temperature differences between the warm water and the overriding cold air.
MORE – see link above
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Let’s not get into a state of ‘stimulus generalization’ over phenomena that has clearly different origins simply due to the fact that they can take on similar appearances at some point in their lifetimes.
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