Chased with Storm Optix and Harley Pearman. Pretty good day for explosive development. Chased the initial cell that came out near Warragamba then another cell devrloped near Luddenham devrloping explosively. Headed to Richmond/Windsor then Quakers Hill then back enroute to Cattai to chase the impressive storm that split left and right and all the way to Wiseman's Ferry then finally back to Richmond for storms building south along the boundary. This cell began to spark and at times produced frequent lightning! Finally we gave up and headed for a nice Pizza. Filled 40gig of video time lapse. Will post pictures at some point but here are a couple of Iphone specials
See : 64km Radar Loop for Sydney (Terrey Hills), 00:00 04/01/2015 to 12:00 04/01/2015 UTC
See : 128km Radar Loop for Sydney (Terrey Hills), 00:00 04/01/2015 to 12:00 04/01/2015 UTC
See : 64km Radar Loop for Wollongong, 00:00 04/01/2015 to 12:00 04/01/2015 UTC
Geez we have done a few Klm the past few days,but it's been worth every bit of it,was great to see some of those towns I've never seen before
Geez we have done a few Klm the past few days,but it's been worth every bit of it,was great to see some of those towns I've never seen before
Geez we have done a few Klm the past few days,but it's been worth every bit of it,was great to see some of those towns I've never seen before
A very enjoyable chase indeed and at least 5 storms. I have briefly looked at my photos which have come out fine. I will post some as soon as I can. I have discovered to my dismay that my DSLR camera cannot handle rapid flashes of light when in video mode (No good for lightning). The instruction book does state that even with the best of settings available which I did. As a result, I have only one lightning flash which I managed despite the instruction book saying that it cannot be done. Despite that setback, it was a great day chasing and a thank you to Jimmy for the pizza at days end.
A very enjoyable chase indeed and at least 5 storms. I have briefly looked at my photos which have come out fine. I will post some as soon as I can. I have discovered to my dismay that my DSLR camera cannot handle rapid flashes of light when in video mode (No good for lightning). The instruction book does state that even with the best of settings available which I did. As a result, I have only one lightning flash which I managed despite the instruction book saying that it cannot be done. Despite that setback, it was a great day chasing and a thank you to Jimmy for the pizza at days end.
A very enjoyable chase indeed and at least 5 storms. I have briefly looked at my photos which have come out fine. I will post some as soon as I can. I have discovered to my dismay that my DSLR camera cannot handle rapid flashes of light when in video mode (No good for lightning). The instruction book does state that even with the best of settings available which I did. As a result, I have only one lightning flash which I managed despite the instruction book saying that it cannot be done. Despite that setback, it was a great day chasing and a thank you to Jimmy for the pizza at days end.
This was a very enjoyable chase. This chase was limited more to outer Western Sydney as well as the Maroota / Wisemans Ferry region. I have never been up to Wisemans Ferry area until now.
I just wish to thank Jimmy for the pizza for the evening.
I have discovered that my DSLR camera is not manufactured to take video film of lightning flashes. Prior to this storm event, I did reset my DSLR camera to take video film and I found it takes very good quality video in general. However it is unable to handle quick / rapid pulses of bright light. As a result, I have no lightning strikes from the event. I do know in future not to try this again using that camera.
Nevertheless, I did manage some great contrast still photos of the event. I now attach some photos of the chase that I took.
Some great contrast for the day and storms were photogenic. I have noticed that it has been a good season for storms without low level cloud obscuring them.
I found the base of this cell south of Penrith interesting.
The storm around Ebenezer late in the day was a favourite. It was amazing to see this storm go from a cluster of cumulus mediocris clouds to this cell in such a short time.
The final photo from the chase. By the time we reached Wisemans Ferry area, the storm was in decline and later on we returned to Richmond to enjoy the final storm to the west.
I was aware although I did not record any rainfall that some areas received some big totals although most areas had little or no rain. Storms were hit and miss with isolated big totals occurring.