• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

17th December 2005 - Sculptured supercell in Australia

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Hi,

After a long day chasing with storms during the morning then noon and afternoon period, some very severe cells developed quite rapidly. However, in most cases they were not very long lived. The most impressive cell I was able to get up close and personal was the following:



I scored more dents - the second time this season from hail up to about golf ball size.



The first cell though:



Some nice front anvil mammatus today:


Regards,

Jimmy Deguara
 
Thanks for the pics and reports. It's so nice to hear of chasers intercepting storms. The current weather in the United States is boring.

Bill Hark
 
Good catch Jimmy !

I was on a family holiday at Jervis Bay, about 600km ( 350miles ) south of you. The pre frontal trough moved through there at 3am, with some lightning, but coastal junk cloud prevented photos.

At 10am the first convection went up about 60km ( 35 miles ) north and it retreated NE quickly as that bane of New South Wales storm chasers moved through - that is prefrontal - post trough dry NW winds.

By sunset the true front had finally come through - by now some estimated 600-800km behind the trough. The front kicked off some very weak storms on the ranges west, but in the moisture starved surface conditions the storms did not survive past the ranges.

They did however leave a consolation prize - a nice mammatus sunset.




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Michael
 
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