Severe thunderstorms increases it rate

[Matt Townsend]

By the Global change in climate can change severity of thunderstorms. NE NSW and SE QLD district of Australia is most common place where you get highest severe thunderstorms especially supercells. So the chances of supercell have been grew in our region since 2000 which i mentioned i have been adding how much severe storms and thunder days in the season period. I calculated and it picked up 20% more from 2000 season!!! I have been watching alot of stormy days to make my experiment to investigate what change is occuring.

Number of severe storm days

2000: 34
2001: 29
2002: 9
2003 33
2004: 37
2005: 56
2006: so far 7

It november now, i've estimated severe storms day for this season might be around 60. Supercell is a dangerous thunderstorm and it can causes serious injuries and damage. Supercells are mostly common in summer. Northern Rivers and Brisbane/Gold Coast hinterland is Australia's larget chance to see a severe supercells. Major supercells day for us here was:

18th Dec 1998
17 jan 2001
Cyclone feb/Mar 2001
16 Jan 2002
23-24 Dec 2002
30 Mar 2003
25-27 Oct 2003
18 Mar 2004
4-5 Sept 2004
9 Nov 2004
12 Dec 2004
2 Jan 2005
13 Mar 2005
28 Apr 2005
July 2005
16 Sept 2005
6-17 Dec 2005
1-14 Jan 2006
14 Feb 2006
15 Mar 2006
4 Apr 2006
June 2006
2 sept 2006
10-12 Oct 2006
28-31 Oct 2006
3-9 Nov 2006 (so far)

See the change between 2004 to 2006. It is increasing more supercells days!

Cheers matt