GALES

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 22/06/2004 10:24

Gales have arrived here now

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Tue 22/06/2004 16:58

Not again Michael

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 22/06/2004 18:15

SW at storm force now with hail

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Tue 22/06/2004 18:21

Michael wrote:SW at storm force now with hail

How lucky, better than the boring day we got here today

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Tue 22/06/2004 18:27

Andy wrote: Not again Michael

Yes, Andy, I think Michael is trying to create a new GALE posting. The other one which seems to get dragged up now and then is getting rather large, although I would expect Michael to make that posting the largest one on this forum, now that Michael has put over a thousand postings of his own

JohnGaul
NZTS

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Tue 22/06/2004 19:00

By the way it might of been wind in Auckland today from the reports on the tv3 news tonight.

Perhaps Michael needs to spend some time of the south coast of south island when gale force southerly winds with driving rain and hail, are lashing the coast line and temperature barley above zero... then we would all have a laugh.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 23/06/2004 07:44

We keep this "Galey Weather" right to the bitter end

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 30/06/2004 18:54

The Gale tonight sounds like a freight train in notch 8 with a full train

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 30/06/2004 21:23

Michael wrote:The Gale tonight sounds like a freight train in notch 8 with a full train

Obviously not a hog (Dg, Di, English Electric Df) or even a Dj, although the Dj was reduced to only having a Notch 9 strength in their later years, notch 10 only good for cancelling the vigilance, if you had your left hand on the throttle

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 30/06/2004 21:32

The old Da's used to have a good sound,Lying in bed hearing them in the distance and perhaps the wind is the sound of a wagon bouncing on the sleepers

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
Michael wrote:The Gale tonight sounds like a freight train in notch 8 with a full train
Obviously not a hog (Dg, Di, English Electric Df) or even a Dj, although the Dj was reduced to only having a Notch 9 strength in their later years, notch 10 only good for cancelling the vigilance, if you had your left hand on the throttle

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 30/06/2004 22:23

Weathers got more dreadful tonight with storm force gust,Its even stronger now the high is to the north than from the low circulation itself

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Thu 01/07/2004 13:30

The wind here is like Wellington used to get in frequency and strengthwise in Wellington in the 1970's

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Fri 02/07/2004 08:33

WINDS AGAIN AT GALE FORCE WITH DRIVING CONTINUAL RAIN

WHEN WILL THIS INSANE WEATHER EVER END

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 02/07/2004 12:32

Michael wrote:WINDS AGAIN AT GALE FORCE WITH DRIVING CONTINUAL RAIN WHEN WILL THIS INSANE WEATHER EVER END

....as soon as you take your hand off the throttle of that Da

JohnGaul
NZTS

Manukau heads obs · Fri 02/07/2004 13:03

more gusts to 50 knots here again today
and more of the same forecast again tomorrow michael
its about time we had a decent period of sw gales
all the trees were starting to grow too straight

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Fri 02/07/2004 18:17

Your weather is in Dynamic Brake mode with both engine and train brake swung far forward

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:....as soon as you take your hand off the throttle of that Da

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 02/07/2004 19:34

Michael wrote:Your weather is in Dynamic Brake mode with both engine and train brake swung far forward
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:....as soon as you take your hand off the throttle of that Da

JohnGaul
NZTS

Coming down from Springfield to Rolleston used to be quite pleasant in winter time in the cab of a Dj. The heat from the grids on the LA's side would keep a crew quite warm with a thousand tonne weight pushing against the combined dynamic brake effort of a Dj/Dg combination on the downward drift of a trainload of coal/timber/cement from the West Coast.

...a bit diffrent in summer tho'

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 03/07/2004 17:22

WINDS STILL AT GALE-FORCE NOW WITH HEAVY RAIN WOW LOVE WINTER

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 18/07/2004 10:18

Winds now Gale Force here

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sun 18/07/2004 11:12

Michael wrote:Winds now Gale Force here

Really? That's a shame... not a breeze, not a cloud down here in Omarama...

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 18/07/2004 12:11

Most of the SI gets unreal weather

Gary Roberts wrote:
Michael wrote:Winds now Gale Force here
Really? That's a shame... not a breeze, not a cloud down here in Omarama...

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 08/08/2004 12:53

WINDS NOW RISING TO GALE FORCE WITH RAIN

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 08/08/2004 12:58

Michael wrote:WINDS NOW RISING TO GALE FORCE WITH RAIN

Hold in there, Michael, especially when the looks like there is no relief from them in sight for the next umpteen years

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 11/08/2004 16:11

SW NOW AT GALE FORCE

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 11/08/2004 17:44

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
Michael wrote:WINDS NOW RISING TO GALE FORCE WITH RAIN

Hold in there, Michael, especially when the looks like there is no relief from them in sight for the next umpteen years

JohnGaul
NZTS

HAHAHAHAHA! Sucks to be a JAFA, huh?!