Australian severe weather season 2012/13

[Manukau heads obs]

Did BOM forecast possible tornadoes?

they did, in the severe thunderstorm outlooks/warnings
but not sure if that was after of before the first one?

[NZstorm]

Some waterspout/tornado activity on the New South Wales coast at the weekend. EF2 rating.

Just damage pics as the event occurred early morning Sunday.

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/stor ... ma/?cs=307

[NZstorm]

Clip of a tornado over northern Victoria late Thursday. Some close footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nekAcXBYXjM

[NZstorm]

500mb output from the gfs for late Thursday. Quite a potent upper level system with the jet stream 70kts to 500mb. Negative tilt as well.

[Manukau heads obs]

saw that clip of TV3 tonight...thought it was from the midwest at first!

[Willoughby]

Probably one of the best tornado footage pieces ever from Australia!

Drivers were very lucky with their poor hazard track judgements, lol.

[Tornado Tim]

Storm season has started a little early for Australia, check out this Sat Image and the huge CB troughal line covering VIC, NSW, even southern QLD!

[Willoughby]

Yes! Have a look at Melbourne's max temp for July 18th - a new July record!

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July maximum temperature
highest this month    23.3°C 18th
highest on record     23.1°C 30th 1975