I saw this once a couple of years back. We could see the cell coming and steamed for the beach. Literally 5mins after we were on the sand it came through and whipped the seas into a shit storm for about 15mins. Once it passed it was as calm as.
Just think of us poor Sea Rescue guys that have to go out in this because someone rushed out to get a quick pinkie or two without checking the boat first.
Good luck if your heading out & please stay safe.
Oh & please radio in before departing the marina.
cheers Rob
We were on the water tonight and saw the lightning coming so we headed in and was washing the boat when it hit, saw one boat out there on the way in so I hope they made it ok.
I gather it is something about the weather. Down here at Mandurah it has just been blowing a bit strong from the Nth west, nothing to get excited about and now it is quite light and has gone all muggy again. What happened.
Driving home from Rotto/Perth today after an ab dive off Ocean Reef.
Got call from missus to say it was hailing at home.
Just before Dongara t junction it started raining and I pulled over, then hail. Thought Id move on 500 meters to some trees but it rained so hard I couldnt see past the bonnet nor along the verge to pull over at 15kmh.
Lasted about 20 minutes but as heavy as I have seen for a while.
Hey Al, I was down at rockingham beach last night to take lightning photos when that wind hit, gotta say I've never seen anything like it before, picked up at least 40knots in less than a minute, surreal!
Yep we were out off Mindarie last night. We could see it in the distance and boy did it come up quick. We picked it up on the radar about 5 miles away and decided to pack up and head for home but by the time we got the gear packed up and the anchor up it hit us. By the time we got to the marina it was blowing like crazy 35 plus knots and dust everywhere. There were about 6 trailers in the car park still when we left. I did notice it was high tide and the surge had the water lapping to the top of the jetties.
Wild one for sure.
Calm as evening. Watched the tennis and a little while after some Fishing show.
Went to bed about 10pm. Then hit. Blew off some branches and rearranged the patio furniture. Blew the dogs bedding away and scared the living shit out off the pup. We sleep with a sliding door open in the bedroom and even blew over a bedside lamp inside.
Like a bad winter storm for 20minutes, but no Thunder/lightning, and only 0.3mm rain.
Wouldnt want to be on the briney with that sudden blow. On BOM Radar the cell appeared to almost settle in Perth, and only slowly moved down from there.
We didn't get anything like that down here at falcon, at least not that I'm aware of. Don't blink or you will be murdered by the storm. Glad to see that it appears all got home ok.
I went out 30kms from Mindarie today in my 6.4m ally and the weather was perfect. Early in the arvo we saw a big angry cloud gathering strength to the north so we started motoring in but got cut off from land by some crazy lghtning and had to hang out about 15kms out. It got bigger and crankier till we could see it was pissing down hard right along the coast and constant lightning was hitting the water between us and the coast. Ended up scooting in between two thunderstorms about 3pm. A bit close for comfort but the ocean never whipped up where we were.
Never seen so many storms in Perth during my time here. The one that came past at about 9.30 last night was out of control, the lightning was spectacular.
Agree that the wind shift is the concerning bit. On Sunday, the breeze at rotto was 42 knots from the north west, and at Garden Island it was 8 knots from the south east
Was out south of rotto yesterday. After seeing heaps of lightning decided to hammer it home. Got about 2 km from woodies and got smashed by the wind and rain with lightning all around. Had me wishing for land thats for sure.
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tim-o
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Hell yeah
Was just lookin at the live wind data, hmm hope theres no trailers in the carpark
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mindarie was half full when
mindarie was half full when i left at 6, lots of big boats too. good luck hope they got in
Hutch
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A big 50 foot or so boat has
A big 50 foot or so boat has just pulled up at the jetty, wouldnt want to be out there now, even in a boat that size
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the trailers will be fine Tim
was down hillarys with the g/son,you could see it coming,plenty of warning
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tim-o
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Puckerin pooper
Seein that comin in whilst out on the water. Might just squall for a bit then die off as it passes
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seen a few photos of gero
seen a few photos of gero after it passed them, water was like a mill pond
Hutch
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Yea, hope the wind buggers
Yea, hope the wind buggers off
Ben85
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and as usual I see willy
and as usual I see willy weather and wind finder have no idea what's going on. A good lightning show moving over Mullaloo just now!
sea-kem
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I saw this once a couple of
I saw this once a couple of years back. We could see the cell coming and steamed for the beach. Literally 5mins after we were on the sand it came through and whipped the seas into a shit storm for about 15mins. Once it passed it was as calm as.
Love the West!
tim-o
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Straight out
To chase pinkies in shallow after it passes I reckon, might kick the seas up enuf to stir the inshore up and getum on the chew tonight
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Hutch
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You in your boat? How you
You in your boat? How you doing keeping dry?
tim-o
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Nah man
Its a school night, Im in bed
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Deckie
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Just think of us poor Sea
Just think of us poor Sea Rescue guys that have to go out in this because someone rushed out to get a quick pinkie or two without checking the boat first.
Good luck if your heading out & please stay safe.
Oh & please radio in before departing the marina.
cheers Rob
Cheers & Stay safe
Moking
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Yep -It's just hit down here
Yep -It's just hit down here at Rockingham- gone from nothing wind wise to blowing over the bins on Palm Beach Jetty.
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Nice cool breeze here in Vic
Nice cool breeze here in Vic Park
Love the West!
Dale
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Yeah it hit here about 30 minutes ago, I went and stood in it for a while to cool off.
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Jim
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We were on the water tonight
We were on the water tonight and saw the lightning coming so we headed in and was washing the boat when it hit, saw one boat out there on the way in so I hope they made it ok.
Bend over
meglodon
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What are we talking about
I gather it is something about the weather. Down here at Mandurah it has just been blowing a bit strong from the Nth west, nothing to get excited about and now it is quite light and has gone all muggy again. What happened.
Auslobster
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Hey meglodon!
Have a quick look at the radar on the BOM site!
DTrain
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I was on one of the last
I was on one of the last boats coming back into Mindarie. It went from dead flat to nasty really quickly.
Glad we made it back in one piece.
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Nice
Nice graph that one.
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Hutch
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Yeah, at Hillarys it went
Yeah, at Hillarys it went from 10 to 40 knots in about a minute
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Driving home from Rotto/Perth
Driving home from Rotto/Perth today after an ab dive off Ocean Reef.
Got call from missus to say it was hailing at home.
Just before Dongara t junction it started raining and I pulled over, then hail. Thought Id move on 500 meters to some trees but it rained so hard I couldnt see past the bonnet nor along the verge to pull over at 15kmh.
Lasted about 20 minutes but as heavy as I have seen for a while.
Glassy calm since then.
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Everyone's just winging it.
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Glad everyone got back
Glad everyone got back safe....
cheers Rob
Cheers & Stay safe
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some pretty cool photos of the storm
this one is doing the rounds was taken in gero
Moking
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Well this poor bloke was
Well this poor bloke was washed up last night on Palm Beach. Had to punch holes in boat the get his trapped dog out.
Owner and dog ok-can't say the same about the boat.
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that other yacht doesnt look
that other yacht doesnt look in great shape either
Moking
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Yep that one washed up as
Yep that one washed up as well.
Already some arsehole has stolen this poor blokes wallet/keys/phone from inside the hull.
Bloody unbelievable!
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tot
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Low as
Talk about kicking a man when down... fark some people.
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old mate was just on TV
old mate was just on TV asking for the guy that helped him to come forward
beau
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Hey Al, I was down at
Hey Al, I was down at rockingham beach last night to take lightning photos when that wind hit, gotta say I've never seen anything like it before, picked up at least 40knots in less than a minute, surreal!
Moking
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Yep-We were on Palm Beach
Yep-We were on Palm Beach jetty last night and saw the wind coming across from Garden Island.
Catching some nice tailor off the Jetty before the wind came up.
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pgreen1
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Yep we were out off Mindarie
Yep we were out off Mindarie last night. We could see it in the distance and boy did it come up quick. We picked it up on the radar about 5 miles away and decided to pack up and head for home but by the time we got the gear packed up and the anchor up it hit us. By the time we got to the marina it was blowing like crazy 35 plus knots and dust everywhere. There were about 6 trailers in the car park still when we left. I did notice it was high tide and the surge had the water lapping to the top of the jetties.
Wild one for sure.
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Odd in Bouvard
Calm as evening. Watched the tennis and a little while after some Fishing show.
Went to bed about 10pm. Then hit. Blew off some branches and rearranged the patio furniture. Blew the dogs bedding away and scared the living shit out off the pup. We sleep with a sliding door open in the bedroom and even blew over a bedside lamp inside.
Like a bad winter storm for 20minutes, but no Thunder/lightning, and only 0.3mm rain.
Wouldnt want to be on the briney with that sudden blow. On BOM Radar the cell appeared to almost settle in Perth, and only slowly moved down from there.
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meglodon
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Bloody hell
We didn't get anything like that down here at falcon, at least not that I'm aware of. Don't blink or you will be murdered by the storm. Glad to see that it appears all got home ok.
crasny1
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and coming again it appears
A cell approaching from the North again. Small compared to yesterday but only early.
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Swompa
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Thunderstorm ID E-484
Thunderstorm ID E-484 detected 12:34 PM
Storm location bearing 343.8 dgr distance 53 km
Last recorded activity 1:10 PM
Intensity class Strong
Intensity trend Intensifying
Current strikerate 53/minute
Peak strikerate 72/minute
Total recorded strikes 3267
Cloud-Ground strikes 1155 - 35.35%
Intracloud strikes 2112 - 64.65%
-- Strike type distribution --
Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 275 - 8.42%
Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 880 - 26.94%
Positive Intracloud [+IC] 1246 - 38.14%
Negative Intracloud [-IC] 866 - 26.51%
crasny1
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where did you get that from mate
always interested in storms!!
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http://tkup.net/lightning/TRA
http://tkup.net/lightning/TRACReport.txt
http://tkup.net/lightning/
*** NexStorm TRAC Report generated 02-Feb-15 1:39:46 PM
Tracking 10 thunderstorms
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Thunderstorm ID P-1990 detected 12:59 PM
Storm location bearing 352.5 dgr distance 41 km
Last recorded activity 1:39 PM
Intensity class Strong
Intensity trend Intensifying
Current strikerate 62/minute
Peak strikerate 86/minute
Total recorded strikes 5261
Cloud-Ground strikes 2258 - 42.92%
Intracloud strikes 3003 - 57.08%
-- Strike type distribution --
Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 378 - 7.18%
Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 1880 - 35.73%
Positive Intracloud [+IC] 1710 - 32.50%
Negative Intracloud [-IC] 1293 - 24.58%
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Thunderstorm ID K-4313 detected 1:38 PM
Storm location bearing 11.3 dgr distance 38 km
Last recorded activity 1:39 PM
Intensity class Strong
Intensity trend No change
Current strikerate 31/minute
Peak strikerate 32/minute
Total recorded strikes 35
Cloud-Ground strikes 28 - 80.00%
Intracloud strikes 7 - 20.00%
-- Strike type distribution --
Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 0 - 0.00%
Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 28 - 80.00%
Positive Intracloud [+IC] 1 - 2.86%
Negative Intracloud [-IC] 6 - 17.14%
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Thunderstorm ID N-2067 detected 1:00 PM
Storm location bearing 318.0 dgr distance 58 km
Last recorded activity 1:39 PM
Intensity class Moderate
Intensity trend Intensifying
Current strikerate 18/minute
Peak strikerate 26/minute
Total recorded strikes 199
Cloud-Ground strikes 75 - 37.69%
Intracloud strikes 124 - 62.31%
-- Strike type distribution --
Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 7 - 3.52%
Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 68 - 34.17%
Positive Intracloud [+IC] 62 - 31.16%
Negative Intracloud [-IC] 62 - 31.16%
-------------------------------------------------------
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Thunderstorm ID I-3365 detected 1:22 PM
Storm location bearing 108.1 dgr distance 15 km
Last recorded activity 1:39 PM
Intensity class Weak
Intensity trend Intensifying
Current strikerate 3/minute
Peak strikerate 14/minute
Total recorded strikes 62
Cloud-Ground strikes 14 - 22.58%
Intracloud strikes 48 - 77.42%
-- Strike type distribution --
Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 2 - 3.23%
Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 12 - 19.35%
Positive Intracloud [+IC] 20 - 32.26%
Negative Intracloud [-IC] 28 - 45.16%
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groverwa
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lightning map
Swompa
Thanks for the lightning site info
Mike
Jason M
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Cut us off!
I went out 30kms from Mindarie today in my 6.4m ally and the weather was perfect. Early in the arvo we saw a big angry cloud gathering strength to the north so we started motoring in but got cut off from land by some crazy lghtning and had to hang out about 15kms out. It got bigger and crankier till we could see it was pissing down hard right along the coast and constant lightning was hitting the water between us and the coast. Ended up scooting in between two thunderstorms about 3pm. A bit close for comfort but the ocean never whipped up where we were.
Swompa
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Looked super impressive
Looked super impressive rolling in, in Como.
Moking
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In Rockingham yesterday
In Rockingham yesterday afternoon,just as another storm front came thru,a man's body was found in the water near the jetty.
Yet to be confirmed- swimming and hit by lighting.
Poor bloke. Stay safe out there!
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Justin M
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Never seen so many storms in
Never seen so many storms in Perth during my time here. The one that came past at about 9.30 last night was out of control, the lightning was spectacular.
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39 degrees and were getting
39 degrees and were getting another storm up quinns way 4.30pm
Moking
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Bugger- On the water ready
Bugger- On the water ready for a snapper session this evening. That came to a quick finish!
Back on boat ramp and out of the water. It's the lighting and wind shift that concerns me.
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Swompa
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Agree that the wind shift is
Agree that the wind shift is the concerning bit. On Sunday, the breeze at rotto was 42 knots from the north west, and at Garden Island it was 8 knots from the south east
This afternoon at Ocean Reef
4:09 south at 17 knots
4:39 west at 4 knots
4:49 north at 39 knots
5:19 east at 19 knots
Glen.vit
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Was out south of rotto
Was out south of rotto yesterday. After seeing heaps of lightning decided to hammer it home. Got about 2 km from woodies and got smashed by the wind and rain with lightning all around. Had me wishing for land thats for sure.