Wild and wooly
Sep. 7th, 2006 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krazykitkatThe east coast low (also known as an east coast bomb) more than delivered.
Wettest September day since 1883. Between last evening and 9am this morning, some parts of Sydney had up to 107mm (4 inches) of rain. Most parts had up to 2 inches. There was quite a bit of thunder too. There's localised flooding, and the Parramatta Rivercat can't get all the way up the Parramatta River. There was even snow in the Blue Mountains.
Hasn't rained much since 9am, passing showers, but it's blowing a gale.
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My sister has put some amazing photos of the Parkes radio telescope here and here, including commentary. It is so huge.
They had to stow it this afternoon for about 35 minutes when the wind got up too high (and they nearly missed the moon landing :injoke for the fans of the movie The Dish:).
Wettest September day since 1883. Between last evening and 9am this morning, some parts of Sydney had up to 107mm (4 inches) of rain. Most parts had up to 2 inches. There was quite a bit of thunder too. There's localised flooding, and the Parramatta Rivercat can't get all the way up the Parramatta River. There was even snow in the Blue Mountains.
Hasn't rained much since 9am, passing showers, but it's blowing a gale.
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My sister has put some amazing photos of the Parkes radio telescope here and here, including commentary. It is so huge.
They had to stow it this afternoon for about 35 minutes when the wind got up too high (and they nearly missed the moon landing :injoke for the fans of the movie The Dish:).
