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  1. Thanks for giving us an on the spot insight Iao - it's certainly sounds as if you have had some interesting weather down under !

    (From what I remember of the Eastern suburbs there are some lovely houses and stunning beaches - your very lucky to live there)

    I live about 10 minutes walk from the beach and love it here. I take it you've been here before?

    Sunny here today, albeit some high cloud in the afternoon, but the strong westerly wind made it feel quite cold. High of just 17.

    It's looking like we're in for a quite cold week with windy and dry westerlies prevailing until Tuesday then changing to possibly showery S-SSW conditions over Wednesday/Thursday.

  2. A series of powerful waterspouts have been captured on film off Australia's New South Wales coast.

    http-~~-//www.channel4.com/news/waterspouts-filmed-off-australias-nsw-coast

    The swirling wind columns are said to have reached heights of nearly two thousand feet.

    The waterspouts, which dissipated before they reached land, do not actually suck up water – what can be seen is water droplets formed by condensation.

    "It looked pretty impressive," one local resident told Australian broadcaster Channel Seven. "I wouldn't have liked to have been in a boat out there."

    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.

    Several cars were submerged and the downpour caused road closures, local media reported.

    A State Emergency Services official said five people were rescued after they were trapped by the flooding in Sydney's metropolitan area.

    The bureau of meteorology said the city had already received around 20 millimetres of rain by late on Monday.

    It's certainly been very wet here (in the eastern suburbs of Sydney) from the 25th with around 150mm falling with lots of pea-sized hail, thunder, lightning and S-SE winds squalling as high as 98km/hr. A shop near my place had its awnings blown down by the gales and a lot of vegetation suffered significant damage. The park across my place was flooded with water coursing over the sides, in numerous places, like waterfalls. Some areas recorded as much as 125mm in 24 hours.

    Also it's been colder than usual, in fact, we had our coldest May nights since 1970 and coldest May days since 1979.

    And to top it all off, it's been our wettest autumn in 8 years with 532mm falling in the city and 544 in my area.

    City had 191mm during March, 206 April and 135 May. For my area - March 220mm , April 177 and May 147.

    Melbourne, in Victoria, had it's cloudiest May in 48 years with just 83.7 hours being recorded - the fourth cloudiest May on record.

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