Friday, 17 January 2025

CLIMATE CHANGE 2025: when the weather gods wake up on the wrong side of the atmospheric bed



ECHO, 14 January 2025, p1:








Warnings of the possibility of thunderstorms occurring across New South Wales began to build on the morning of Wednesday,15 January 2025 and by the afternoon these warnings began to increase, by way of a mix BoM bulletins, broadcast news and social media.



On the morning of Thursday 16 January many New South Wales communities woke to either hear the news of severe storms elsewhere across the state or to survey by light of day the damage caused by the violent weather they had just experienced.



ABC News, 16 January 2025:



Severe storms battered large parts of the state overnight.

The state emergency service has received more than 2,250 requests for help in the past 24 hours, and one man in his 80s died in Cowra when a tree fell on his car.

100,000 homes remain without power on the Ausgrid network, which encompasses Sydney and the Hunter Valley.


NSW SES has received more than 2,250 calls for assistance and responded to more than 1,800 incidents as severe weather battered the state overnight.


Severe thunderstorm cells hit across Sydney and parts of the state's north-east, north-west and central west Thursday morning, including Newcastle and Wollongong.


More than 140,000 homes have been without power at some point in the last 24 hours.







A home at Mudgee in the central west was completely destroyed by a fire, after a downed power pole landed on the property.....



In Dubbo, fire crews were called to Eden Park where it's believed lightning struck a tree near a leaking gas pipe.


The area was closed for an hour while fire crews managed to bring the blaze under control, and the power company isolated the gas leak.


Cheryl Clydsdale is a farmer at Rouchel in the Upper Hunter and said the storm demolished a hay shed at her property....


Elsewhere in the Hunter, a roof at Cessnock High School was torn off, as well as a roof at the NSW Port Authority at Honeysuckle in Newcastle....


Line of storms


Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) senior meteorologist Christie Johnson said the wild weather was produced by a cold front that triggered a "massive line of storms".


"At one stage we basically had a line of storms extending from almost the Queensland border down to Tasmania," she said.


"We did see some super cells, those super-strong thunderstorms and they did develop along the line.


"Sometimes they can actually suck the energy out of the storms around them ... so you can get one area that is really badly hit, and then just down the road you get maybe just a normal thunderstorm coming over."


Wind gusts of 120 kilometres per hour were recorded at Williamtown, north of Newcastle, but gusts in excess of 100kph were recorded in areas scattered across the state including Kurnell (117kph) Scone, Dubbo and Cowra (107kph), Wagga Wagga (106kph) and Tamworth (102kph).


Then heaviest rain fell at Eurobodalla, on the south coast, where 127mm was recorded in the 24 hours to 9am.


"About 57mm of that fell in about half an hour, and about 85 in an hour," Ms Johnson said.....


Read the full article here.

The warnings did not stop coming on Thursday.....

Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) as of 2:22am 17 January 2025:


Warnings current:


The Hunter Coast, NSW Mid-North Coast, 16 January 2025
VIDEO: Nick Raschke, Newcastle

 

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