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Wow! after an awesome christmas lunch with the best crackling ever I drove all of 5mins to Mt Cooper and timelapsed the most incredibly structured supercell right in from of me for over an hour!!!! then I realised I had a puncture so a few frantic calls and help from my wife I got another car and ra...

Took this at sunset from Lancefield, Sat 24th Dec 2011.

Taken from Lancefield, Sat 24th Dec 2011.

Nice bolts!

Chased yesterday and got some severe storms including funnels and a downburst near Murchison, then this crazy sunset on the back of the storm taken from Lancefield

this is where things really got interesting as the Chinkapook supercell went into another gear, the beaver tail fully condensed into the meso, funnels emerged and rain curtains appeared to rotate rapidly....

Well the bar has been lifted to 8 guitarists but im not sure I can keep this up! http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/5072/chinkapano13.jpg http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/706/chinkapano23.jpg http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9170/img0136ks.jpg http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4060/img0396xu.jpg ...

3 more shots of the Chinkapook classic supercell:

Now that is certainly a unique response Greg! ;) Wide angle pano stitches of the early stages of the Chickapook, VIC classic cyclic supercell of 18th Dec 2011. This storm was continuously rotating and producing wall clouds for the entire 4 1/2 hours we were on it, and continued to survive for much l...

Thanks! love the guitar :) Okay, here are 2 panos from the Hay Maker HP monster supercell of Dec 18th near Hay. This was our second supercell after 4 1/2 hours on a classic supercell west of Swan Hill earlier. These pano's are up to 20 wide angle photos stitched together to show the immense size of ...

Okay, here are 2 panos from the Hay Maker HP monster supercell of Dec 18th. This was our second supercell after 4 1/2 hours on a classic supercell west of Swan Hill earlier. These pano's are up to 20 wide angle photos stitched together to show the immense size of this storm. The mid and upper level ...

Chased (sat on!) a classic supercell for 4 hours in the Ouyen-SwanHill region in Vic, then crossed the border and punched through a HP supercell of truly epic proportions and once on the eastern side........WOW! best chase of the season. I am exhausted.

Brad.

Chased (sat on!) a classic supercell for 4 hours in the Ouyen-SwanHill region in Vic, then crossed the border and punched through a HP supercell of truly epic proportions and once on the eastern side........WOW! best chase of the season. I am exhausted.

Brad.

yeah we took a wrong turn somewhere but the storms we got made it worthwhile.

yeah close enough to sunset, still had another 20mins or so of good light. Storm went nuts after this point, smashed us with intense RFD, produced a swathe of 5-7cm hail, lifted dirt and basically put on a show. I think some south aussie chasers got distant structure shots which are very nice.

has been a while since I posted in this section so here's a few recent stormchase images: http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/120/img8453ff.jpg http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/6675/img8512w.jpg http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/5422/img8519f.jpg http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9832/nynganpano7.j...

Here's a 10-shot wide angle stitched pano of one of the supercells we intercepted near Nyngan on the 29th Nov: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8875/nynganpano5.jpg and another of the same storm as it was forming a ringing structure above us: http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9832/nynganpano7.jpg...

Here's a few pics from my chase on Saturday west of Melbourne:

Here's a 10-shot wide angle stitched pano of one of the supercells we intercepted near Nyngan on the 29th Nov: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8875/nynganpano5.jpg and another of the same storm as it was forming a ringing structure above us: http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9832/nynganpano7.jpg...

Hey Greg, gotta love crawlers hey! I went out west on Saturday initially targetting Mt Cottrell in Melbourne's outer west but changed course northward before I got there to intercept a beautifully structured storm (that displayed supercellular behaviour for just long enough for me to call it a super...