Over a week of solid rain on the Tablelands.

 

After a week or more of storms and good rain, the tablelands are as green as the fields of the east coast.  The rocky granite bush is like a coastal paradise at the moment.  I think the ground needed this great big drink.  The weather front has stretched the full length of the continent from North to South. 

I think life will be pleasant for the animals for a good while after this large wet event because life comes briskly and cheerfully after the big rains.

Melbourne, Victoria, was on route for a Tornado today.  This super cell was downgraded, however it was a tornado for a short time after starting as a funnel cloud off the coast. Some places lost roofs and trees were uprooted.

"MELBOURNE has received almost half its monthly rainfall in just two days after wild storms caused chaos at Oaks Day."

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There were severe storm warnings all over NSW today.  Further north out west near Goondiwindi was on alert.  The Mid North Coast was expecting large hail stones and damaging winds.

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The warning was issued at 4.36pm this afternoon and comes after a media release from the Bureau warning of thunderstorm events for the next couple of days.

Its summer on the way once again.  The rain prepares the way for upcoming sweltering we are about to have.  Such a shame that all this ground water provided by the universe and the structure in which it disseminates to us can be stolen by big mining.  They steal our very energy field of life and the health of each person.  It is in the tiniest cell or atom.  It is real and it seeps in like water!

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Dubbo blown out by the Mother....

Storms were evident right across New South Wales yesterday.  We had storms here and there were storms at the coast and in Sydney and Kiama is on evacuation alert.  But what was a surprise was the Tornado that formed near Dubbo and left a trail of destruction in its wake damaging up to 12 properties in the area.  My niece was without power for 17 hours and they had no telephone either.  There is no mobile service to her property.  What would happen if something happened - how would we know.  I will have to mention a radio.

Please go here to Ch Nine and watch a thirty second video of this weather event.

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There are pictures of the tornado forming over Dubbo.

 This afternoon this photo was taken and sent to Newcastle fishing trawlers to warn them of an incoming storm 20 mins after this shot was taken the storm hit trawlers the photo was taken by Newcastle fisheries observers such an incredible shot I was sent this via the captain of the trawler via a text msg at 3.30pm

I saw a funnel cloud outside my back door earlier this year and I was a little concerned but it blew out on the ocean, which was also out my back door.

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On this day in history: first picture of a tornado in Australia - Australian Geographic

On this day in history: first picture of a tornado in Australia - Australian Geographic

This 1911 picture is believed to be the oldest one of a tornado in Australia. (Credit: Museum Victoria)

MR C. HOSKEN JUST happened to be in his backyard with a camera when a large tornado tore through the town of Marong, central Victoria, on the 27 September 1911.

As the tornado approached his property from the northwest, he began taking photographs. These images are believed to be the earliest photographic records of a tornado in Australia.

"It's almost unbelievable that in 1911 someone had a camera there...and this thing touched down virtually in his back yard," says Clyve Herbert, an avid tornado researcher from Melbourne Storm Chasers.

"I've searched for years and I've never found a photograph of a tornado in Australia as early as that."

A trail of tornado devastation

The storm lasted no more than half an hour. By the time the tornado had passed through Marong, and the thunder and falling hailstones had stopped, one person was dead and dozens more injured. In the nearby outback town of Lockwood, every building was levelled, trees were stripped of their bark, and hundreds of metres of fencing was carried away.

These scenes were also captured on film by Hosken, providing lasting evidence of the scale of damage.

"They found a six-tonne gold crushing machine carried three to four miles into the forest, which gives you some idea of the strength of [the tornado]," Clyve says. "There are not a lot of entries about how many were injured in Lockwood, but the entire town was almost obliterated."

At the time, the Bureau of Meteorology called the Marong Tornado one of the most violent and destructive events in Australia's meteorological history.

The Ballarat tornado of 2007 was one of several large storms to hit the "tornado triangle" in recent years. (Credit: Clyve Herbert)

Tornado rating scale

The Fujita Scale - which rates a tornado between F0 and F5, depending on intensity and destruction - wasn't around in 1911, but Clyve says Hosken's photographs, and a 1911 BOM report, suggest it may have been F3. This same rating was given to the 1976 Sandon Tornado, which touched down a few kilometres to the south of Marong and, according to Clyve, had a similar path and lifespan.

He calls the region bounded by Daylesford, Seymour, Bendigo and Maryborough the "tornado triangle" because of the many extreme weather events that have occurred there.