So this storm originated just to the northwest of Grafton and travlled all the way to Coffs Harbour. I was watching it from Woolgoolga headland with Dan and Matty. Before the sunset there was a particularly pretty display of mammatus which I photograhed while Kangaroos had a play fight underneath! Quite an amazing site.
As it got dark we begain to see frequent lightning flashes hidden inside the clouds. A strong updraft kept punching up and anviling directly over our heads.
This soon begain to produce frequent anvil crawlers which we could see through a gap in the clouds.
After this we travelled back to coffs but just not could find a good vantage point to shoot anything else due to all the hills that surround Coffs and being caught in rain. As I was driving to Sawtell to try and get a better view my girlfriend rang and said we just got large hail at home, she said about the half the size of her palm.
Kane, where was the hail itself and how large is half her palm. I record the size of hailstones that falls in specific areas. The mammatus was a spectacular display. The difference I find here though is there usually is a little low cloud around – perhaps because we are closer to the coast. But awesome nevertheless. I always find it a build up as the sun goes down to see how it pans out!
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
Hey Jimmmy its exciting to see a solid storm just as the sun is going down as the lightning finally becomes shootable!..She has a hand a bit smaller then mine and accounting for possible exageration I estimate 4cm, to bad she didn’t put any in the freezer.