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Far South Coast Lightning Show

This evening the 18/12/14 storm chaser Michael Keene and fellow SSA Team Member was lucky enough to take up position south of Merimbula.

He was greeted with a rather mundane experience at first but as patience persisted he was lucky enough to experience an amazing CC (Cloud to Cloud) lightning show.

He would estimate 100 flashes / Min. Sadly after dark scud cloud moved in a destroyed most of the view.

He was able to capture a few CG's (Cloud to Ground)

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**QUICK UPDATE - I have the feed working on the main page though it is running a little behind, it is working in the weather warnings page but not posting in order. The last post is the newest.

Still working on a fix for this at present.

Tornadoes in Australia - 2015 Update

At present the data for 2015 is still being updated and of course the year isn't over yet but the Bureau of Meteorology has listed 2 Tornado events thus far for the year with both being in Victoria :-
2015-02-23 - In Sheppaton Victoria, several eye witnesses seen a tornado and damage was recorded. There also was evidence of strong meso-scale on radar.
2015-02-28 - Hepburn Courier in Victoria reports of tornado 150m wide by couple of km

The Bureau of Meteorology has updated their data and there were 6 recorded Tornadoes in 2014, They are:-

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