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Severe storm batters Alice Springs
A severe thunderstorm has swept through Alice Springs, bringing down trees and causing localised flooding. More than 4,500 Homes and businesses are without power in the northern and western suburbs. Winds reaching 120 kilometres per hour ripped down trees and powerlines in the town centre and suburbs, blocking several main roads.
The Southern Region Police Commander Bert Hofer says the storm appears just to have hit Alice Springs. There was an absolute deluge of rain and localised flooding. Just about all traffic lights in Alice Springs are out at the moment ... there's been a lot of damage by trees falling across roads hitting parked cars and the like.
Alice Springs Town Council and Power and Water staff are working on the clean up. Power and Water says they are unsure when electricity will be restored to the town. Motorists are being asked to avoid Larapinta Drive between the Stuart Highway and Millner Road, where a pergola has blown onto the westbound lane.
All of the Todd River causeways are open.
©abc | Gewijzigd: 13 februari 2017, 10:48 uur, door Joyce.s
A severe thunderstorm has swept through Alice Springs, bringing down trees and causing localised flooding. More than 4,500 Homes and businesses are without power in the northern and western suburbs. Winds reaching 120 kilometres per hour ripped down trees and powerlines in the town centre and suburbs, blocking several main roads.
The Southern Region Police Commander Bert Hofer says the storm appears just to have hit Alice Springs. There was an absolute deluge of rain and localised flooding. Just about all traffic lights in Alice Springs are out at the moment ... there's been a lot of damage by trees falling across roads hitting parked cars and the like.
Alice Springs Town Council and Power and Water staff are working on the clean up. Power and Water says they are unsure when electricity will be restored to the town. Motorists are being asked to avoid Larapinta Drive between the Stuart Highway and Millner Road, where a pergola has blown onto the westbound lane.
All of the Todd River causeways are open.
©abc | Gewijzigd: 13 februari 2017, 10:48 uur, door Joyce.s
Alice storm 'like a category 2 cyclone'
The Weather Bureau says yesterday's storm in Alice Springs was comparable to a category two cyclone. Meteorologist Ian Shepherd says the Alice Springs airport recorded winds of 102 kilometres per hour. He says that's the strongest winds ever recorded there for the month of September, and it was probably fiercer in the city centre.
"I suppose we would estimate the wind gusts in the storm in Alice Springs yesterday at around possible 130 kilometres an hour perhaps, which is the same sorts of wind gusts that we got from Cyclone Gretel in Darwin or at least further down the coast from Darwin earlier this year in January."
©abc | Gewijzigd: 13 februari 2017, 10:48 uur, door Joyce.s
The Weather Bureau says yesterday's storm in Alice Springs was comparable to a category two cyclone. Meteorologist Ian Shepherd says the Alice Springs airport recorded winds of 102 kilometres per hour. He says that's the strongest winds ever recorded there for the month of September, and it was probably fiercer in the city centre.
"I suppose we would estimate the wind gusts in the storm in Alice Springs yesterday at around possible 130 kilometres an hour perhaps, which is the same sorts of wind gusts that we got from Cyclone Gretel in Darwin or at least further down the coast from Darwin earlier this year in January."
©abc | Gewijzigd: 13 februari 2017, 10:48 uur, door Joyce.s
Dust storm spans 2,000 kilometres
A dust expert says while fierce storms battered Alice Springs yesterday, another front browned snow and produced mud in New South Wales. Category One cyclone strength gusts of up to 107 kilometres an hour hit the town yesterday afternoon, uprooting trees and damaging buildings. DustWatch Northern Co-ordinator Craig Strong from Griffith University says it was a pretty big dust storm.
I think the size of it in terms of space was pretty impressive because we had you guys hammered in Alice and then the Lake Eyre basin, right down to the Victorian border. It was probably about 1,500 kms to 2,000 kilometres worth of dust front. A cold front affected southern states, while the thunderstorm activity in the centre was associated with a trough line.
At one stage there yesterday there was about 1,000 kilometres of thunderstorm activity going from Alice Springs right down to hay in western New South Wales. The Riverine plane of New South Wales really got a hammering, visibility was down to 100 metres in most of the regional towns down there. So, what happened when the dust was raised in the Riverine plain, it was moved eastward, when it got to West Wyalong country, the showers kicked in, so all the dust that was in the atmosphere was then washed out into mud.
He says this event would have picked up nutrient rich part of the soils, such as clay, from within 200 kilometres of Alice Springs. Craig says people should expect to see more similar events. We can expect more [dust storms] because it has been so dry and we're at the beginning of the wind erosion season for the northern of the part of the country, basically the cold fronts and the troughs are now impacting this sort of latitude, so around Alice Springs and the channel country in western Queensland. Because it has been so dry the soil is susceptible.
©Abc Rural | Gewijzigd: 13 februari 2017, 10:48 uur, door Joyce.s
A dust expert says while fierce storms battered Alice Springs yesterday, another front browned snow and produced mud in New South Wales. Category One cyclone strength gusts of up to 107 kilometres an hour hit the town yesterday afternoon, uprooting trees and damaging buildings. DustWatch Northern Co-ordinator Craig Strong from Griffith University says it was a pretty big dust storm.
I think the size of it in terms of space was pretty impressive because we had you guys hammered in Alice and then the Lake Eyre basin, right down to the Victorian border. It was probably about 1,500 kms to 2,000 kilometres worth of dust front. A cold front affected southern states, while the thunderstorm activity in the centre was associated with a trough line.
At one stage there yesterday there was about 1,000 kilometres of thunderstorm activity going from Alice Springs right down to hay in western New South Wales. The Riverine plane of New South Wales really got a hammering, visibility was down to 100 metres in most of the regional towns down there. So, what happened when the dust was raised in the Riverine plain, it was moved eastward, when it got to West Wyalong country, the showers kicked in, so all the dust that was in the atmosphere was then washed out into mud.
He says this event would have picked up nutrient rich part of the soils, such as clay, from within 200 kilometres of Alice Springs. Craig says people should expect to see more similar events. We can expect more [dust storms] because it has been so dry and we're at the beginning of the wind erosion season for the northern of the part of the country, basically the cold fronts and the troughs are now impacting this sort of latitude, so around Alice Springs and the channel country in western Queensland. Because it has been so dry the soil is susceptible.
©Abc Rural | Gewijzigd: 13 februari 2017, 10:48 uur, door Joyce.s
Citaat van Svenn, dinsdag 23 september 2008, 21:34 uur
Ondanks de mooie rolwolk of shelf en heftige onweer, had ik hier toch niet bij willen zijn
Niet normaal
van mij mag het eens per week zo zijn hoor!
schitterend.
Ruk.
Niet normaal
van mij mag het eens per week zo zijn hoor!
schitterend.
Ruk.
één ding is zeker, er is ALTIJD WEER!!!!
