The Perfect Storm
I love that I work with fellow geeks like myself. For a couple of days I've been watching the generation of what could be the perfect storm and when I came in today, it was going to be my topic of conversation with my other colleague working over the break. Except he brought it up first and we chatted for a good few minutes on all things weather.
from news.com.au:
The bureau is expecting showers, thunderstorms and wind in Perth today - along with the chilly maximum temperature - as a winter-style cold front moves through.
For those not in the picture, the first cyclone for the year (Isobel - and um, the lovely lady in my icon is Isabel from Roswell) is rapidly approaching the WA coast and is expected to hit later today between Port Hedland and Broome. It will then rapidly fall apart from a Category 1 to a plain storm. However from the south we've had a cold front moving in since about yesterday and these two systems could collide and combine tomorrow and dump rain a little further east than Perth.
Why this is interesting - they are predicting about 150mm of rain, which is a quarter of last year's rainfall total; depending on where it falls and how quickly it falls, we could get a repeat of the 2000 (?) algal bloom in the Swan, if it doesn't fall quick enough and falls on very unsaturated catchments absolutely nothing could happen, it could trigger the whole Swan/Avon catchment which is a beautiful site.
So yeah, bit of a hydrology geek.
And in other news, I have my light winter coat today and was still cold coming into work. Although, admittedly, that's the same as this time last year.
from news.com.au:
The bureau is expecting showers, thunderstorms and wind in Perth today - along with the chilly maximum temperature - as a winter-style cold front moves through.
For those not in the picture, the first cyclone for the year (Isobel - and um, the lovely lady in my icon is Isabel from Roswell) is rapidly approaching the WA coast and is expected to hit later today between Port Hedland and Broome. It will then rapidly fall apart from a Category 1 to a plain storm. However from the south we've had a cold front moving in since about yesterday and these two systems could collide and combine tomorrow and dump rain a little further east than Perth.
Why this is interesting - they are predicting about 150mm of rain, which is a quarter of last year's rainfall total; depending on where it falls and how quickly it falls, we could get a repeat of the 2000 (?) algal bloom in the Swan, if it doesn't fall quick enough and falls on very unsaturated catchments absolutely nothing could happen, it could trigger the whole Swan/Avon catchment which is a beautiful site.
So yeah, bit of a hydrology geek.
And in other news, I have my light winter coat today and was still cold coming into work. Although, admittedly, that's the same as this time last year.