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• Roxby Downs drowns.. ..in an incredible 86mm in 9 hours!!! Now thats a deluge. The deserts are having a good year in 2010.
  Go HERE for their 10 minute OBS.
  >>(09-04-10)

• Rain anyone? Or some flooding perhaps? Adelaide its wettest day in almost 3 years with 33mm, 46mm at the Airport, 34mm at my spot in the southern hills and an amazing 75mm at Crafers! More is forecast to follow later in the week.
  A small report HERE .
  >>(06-04-10

• Patchy SA low. From almost zero to almost 100mm the weekend low dropped some incredible dumps to some and mere drizzle to others.. Kadina 91mm for the weekend along with Cleve 84mm, Geranium 63+mm, some of the best. As with lows it is either on or off. For me it streamed to within a few KM's. Just 14mm falling in mostly light drizzle over the full 3 days. But boy did some serious dumps come VERY VERY close! As is often the case the best fell all round the 4 points of the compass, anywhere but here as always.....
  See some radar grabs HERE .
  >>(08-03-10

• Central Oz deluges. INCREDIBLE rains are deluging outback and central Australia. Alice Springs over 300mm, Birdsville over 200mm including 168mm in 24 hours!!!!! And still raining. Inland Australia is under water! meanwhile Perth is suffering its driest period on record with the airport not recording rain since nov20th last year. Thats over 100 days!  Check out the sat pick of the low over central Australia. Almost a cyclone over land with 85km/h gust winds over Birdsville and torrential rain! AMAZING stuff, not seen in a century!! Sat pic HERE .
  >>(21-02-10)

• Northern storms. Yet AGAIN a line of storms explodes over mid northern SA. And yet AGAIN the south remains fine and dry dry dry. The troughline responsible is however beautifully defined. More HERE .
  >>(21-02-10)

• MASSIVE storm. explodes over northern ranges with flash flooding and damaging winds. Meanwhile dead calm and blue skies down my way (as always) as the summer big dry establishes itself with teeth. More HERE
  >>(02-02-10

• East meets west in a collision of 2 systems. Ex tropical cyclone Olga remnants moving in from the east and a trough from the west collide over central South Australia. See the amazing satellite and radar animations HERE
  >>(02-02-10)

• Storms? Where?.In classic centrals collapse, forecast storms in an unstable NE flow atmosphere that should have exploded simply failed to occur. One or 2 weak cells propogated, yes yet again, north. As always absolutely nothing but uncomfortable humidity down south as we continue to get drier and drier.
  A few pics of the Woodside cell HERE HERE HERE
  >>(02-02-10)

• Centrals force field ..... is in action again driving what should have been an impressive storm line up, you guessed it - north! Still one or 2 flashes about and some dribbly rain and a beautiful pink/red sunset. Plus a great diversion from "groundhog day" conditions.
  Sunset pic of our hillside glowing red HERE
  >>(27-01-10)

• FIRE! ..... A grass and woodland fire jumps into action near Meadows on the 25th Jan. Under control by evening, but a potent reminder of the season. See some pics from the links below -
  Pic-1 Pic-2 Pic-3 Pic-4 and Pic-5
  >>(25-01-10)

• Interesting rainfall stat ..... While we wallow in severe weather boredom I dug up this little rainfall stat from 2009!
  Read more about rainfall rates HERE
  >>(24-01-10)

• Heatwave breaks and it rains! ..... Well it rained well for some. Good falls over most areas but it can be considered a flop for the SE ranges again. At least its cool!
  Read more from HERE
  >>(09-01-10)

• and the HEAT rolls on. ..... In the city 4th Jan made 31.3, 5th-32, 6th-33.6, and 7th-35.1, 41 on the 8th, 41 today (9th) and 43 forecast for the next 2 days.
  For my spot in the SE ranges it reads as 7th- 33.5, 8th- 35.2, and 9th (today)- 36.7
  Oh yeah this is a heatwave - AGAIN!
  >>(09-01-10)

• 2009 Meadows summary HEAT .....dominates 2009 in the Meadows hills. It was my hottest year I have recorded (av max) by a tiny 0.01 degrees. It had my hottest ever recorded day of 40.8. Plus 40 degrees usually only comes along once every 5-6 years. 2009 also recorded the number of days with a max above 30 more than any previous year I have recorded.
  See the SUMMARY HERE.
  >>(09-01-10)

• WHAT? Another heatwave? You have got to be joking, c'mon mother nature give us a break. Enough is enough. So what will this one bring? Watch this space.
  >>(05-01-10)

• HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here we go again, another year. What will it bring? No-one knows, but it started with some decent stormy action. Where? Up north and east of course. Lameroo smashed by 140km wind gusts and some serious rain rates. A monster of a storm explodes on new years day over no mans land in Riverland SA..
  See some radar grabs HERE
  >>(05-01-10

• Nov Heatwave! Wrapup and BOM download HERE
  >>(05-01-10)

• RAINFALL RECORD! Well for me anyways! Sat 28th saw convergence around a southern low dump the most significant rain in terms of intensity in a decade at my spot and the highest 24 hr fall in almost 2 years! over 70mm in under a week! PLUS marble sized hail, howling gales and localised flooding. Pretty good effort for November. See the rain rate graph.
  HERE, and small radar loop HERE
  >>(01-12-09)

• Inland low deluges central Australia rotation tightly. Following a rainband that delivered 100+mm to some spots last week, this one is wetting the deserts again. Storms also accompanying the rainband push to the central districts east of the ranges with a nice roll cloud/guster near Murray Bridge/Strathalbyn. A few late evening pics
  HERE, HERE and HERE
  >>(25-11-09)

• Nice little storm to end the nasty record breaking hottest on record November day of 43 degrees int he city and 36 degrees at my spot. Shocker of a day with fires all over the place, some serious, none welcome. Evening storms with dry strikes started a few fires around the ag areas. A few pics of the stormy stuff as it waffled through. Pics HERE , HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE
  >>(20-11-09)

• Will another Nov record be smashed? Forecast for the 19th for Adelaide is an incredible 43 degrees! If this is reached it will set a new november record for Kent Town/West terrace breaking the old 42.7 set in 1962! The records are tumbling in these extraordinary times. Relief is on the way, with friday the 20th forecast to be back below 30. It may even rain!
  The sky turned red/orange and blue again in an omen for the morrow. The oven is BACK!.
  Pic HERE
  >>(18-11-09)

• Catastrophic fire danger In a first for Australia under the new fire classification system SA's northern regions are declared as under Catastrophic risk for the 18th and 19th. The mainsteam press are having a field day! Aweful conditions with searing heat to the mid 40's and strong winds.
  >>(18-11-09)

• And thus ends round one..... even if the duration is slight. Just one day. One day before it comes back. Novemeber is running a mindblowing 4.3 degrees ABOVE FEBRUARY'S average max!! Bloody hell!
  The sky turned red tonight, the oven is idling for the minute.
  Pics HERE and HERE
  >>(15-11-09)

• NEW RECORD!! Officially our first EVER November heatwave since records began. By the looks the old nov consecutive days above 35 record will be SMASHED off the planet! November max temp average currently stands at an incredible 32.2 degrees, 7.2 degrees above the long term average!! Sadly relief still some way off.
  >>(12-11-09)

• HEATWAVE ROLLS ON! Knuckle down people, its gonna be hot hot hot. Could this smash all records? Could it be the 3rd consecutive summer that we cook in ridiculous runs of temps that are supposed to be one in a thousdand year events?
  This is BEYOND a joke!
  >>(08-11-09)

• HEATWAVE! The forecast for the next week from the 4th nov is amazing. Its so very much like feb that all you can say is "here's summer!" The run as of the 4th reads like this
  Saturday Fine. Sunny. Min 15 Max 33
  Sunday Fine. Mostly sunny. Min 20 Max 33
  Monday Dry. Mostly sunny. Min 21 Max 35
  Tuesday Dry. Mostly sunny. Min 21 Max 37
  Wednesday Dry. Mostly sunny. Min 22 Max 37
  And its likely it will continue! YUCK!
  >>(04-11-09)

• sparks and bolts An early morning light show down south on the night of a full moon. Just managed to scrape in a few long distant shots here here and here
  >>(04-11-09)

• moons and rings A nice ring around the moon in the hot evening conditions. A few pics here here and here
  >>(30-10-09)

• Climate "flip!" Snap! And in comes the heat. An incredible 6 degree average max temp rise in 14 days, potentially 6 consecutive days above 30 deg for the city. LOOK OUT! here comes summer!! What happened to spring? Meanwhile massive storms explode in Western Victoria while SA wither's to dust.
  >>(30-10-09)

• Cold and wet in October A nice deep low south of the state drops good rainfalls to 40mm over the northern hills (as usual) and down on the southern fleurieu. No near so much down the SE ranges as the year runs down the average line only. Gales to 100km/h lash much of southern SA.
  >>(13-10-09)

• INCOMING!!!!!!! At 10:45am Monday - Incredible storms are born on the Eyre Peninsula and heading for the centrals. Golf ball hail unofficially reported. This is as good as it gets in SA.
  >>(21-09-09) AMAZING radar grab HERE and lightning tracker HERE

• WIND!! dry shocking gales The 11th september was a  record hot day for Adelaide with a 29 degree top. It also saw shocking dry gale force winds hammer the state. Minus 43 dewpoints in the north meant the air blowing down was super DRY. An overnight repreive but the 12th was worse with stronger more variable and just as dry winds. SHOCKING DESTRUCTIVE days.
  >>(12-09-09)

• Storm report A small report plus full radar loop of the recent storms now online.
  >>(18-08-09) Report HERE

• Lightning and WIND!!!! And some pretty extreme temps for August. Still 20 degrees at midnight in the southern hills which is pretty much unheard of. Winds strong enough to make in the open photography impossible, so I shot from the tripod on the front seat! Yep lightning, 8 months in the making, average show, but hell! Lightning is lightning.
  >>(16-08-09) Small gallery of pics HERE

• HOWZATT!!!!...Finally some weather worth talking about. A VERY vigorous front SLAMS through SA leaving a trail of destruction, massive power outages,a truck blown over, lightning, hail and maybe even a cold air tornado!A new gallery of pics started, report soon.
  >>(30-06-09) View the gallery HERE

• Storm...One or 2 nice little storms developed east of the ranges in particular on the 6th June. Bubbling convection with reported small hail in one spot. Not a lot of rain, just nice winter structure. Also spotted was a number of waterspouts in the seas off the Metropolitan coastline. (06-06-09)
  >> Storm structure pics HERE and HERE
  >> Waterspout captures here..

• Easterly infeed...Aided by a blocking high pattern of all things an easterly moisture infeed from an eastern states upper troughline drops reasonable falls in narrow convergence streams over the eastern range front. 14mm for me and counting. Welcome WINTER!.
  >>(02-06-09)

• Rain elsewhere... It rained, poured and bucketed even with system total falls up to 50mm and generally 25-30mm in a narrow N-S band with tropical origins. Only it did NOT fall at my spot with one of the worse displays of "rain repellance" I have seen. Yet another 2 days of barely drizzle and very low totals for me.
  >>(25-05-09)

• Orographics at work... Yet another blocking high dominates. But a damp SW stream soaks the central ranges.
  >> Report HERE (18-05-09)

• Where did that come from? Pinch and a punch, some rain for the frist day of the month!!! A surprise deluge gives over 30mm to Belleview Heights, 20mm plus to Strath and over an inch to Currency Creek!! Finally a well deserved drop to the SE flats and lakes district.
  >> (01-05-09)

• Thats it for now folks... Pretty much all over except for a few dribbles here and there ......
  >> Small Report HERE (27-04-09)

• Bloody Hell! Early Monday morning deluge drops a further 24mm bringing my total to almost 100mm and well over the 120mm mark for the higher ranges. "BEAUTY MATE"......
  >> Report started HERE (27-04-09)

• Rain anyone? See my forecast below. Its come off!! Torrential rain, local flooding, king tides, stranded surfers, hail. Bloody Hell! I think its fair to say the season has broken as most of the state cops a pizzling. 72mm at this location and much much more further north in the high lofties. Hell of a start. Anzac day tradition is back......
  Report Soon (25-04-09)

• Could this break the season? Keep watching and cross all your fingers. Reasonable rains are staying present on the models for the latter half of this week. No more downgrades please!!.
  (20-04-09)

• Is that rain? What was that again? A nice few mm in a moist WSW airstream sees the highest and heaviest falls for me in over 6 weeks. But 5mm is not a season break, just a break from the ordinary. .
  MORE PLEASE! (16-04-09)

• Poor Autumn outlooks. Latest rainfall outlooks from the BOM for autumn are pretty grim. Just 30-35% chance of exceeding average falls in central SA.
  Read more HERE (25-03-09)

• Fine and hot. The mainstream press call it "beautiful weather". Fine warm to hot, temps rising to mid thirties again and no rainfall in the immediate future. Its anything but beautiful. See news item below as to why.
  DRY DRY DRY (25-03-09)

• Drought Persists! Driest on record for the south eastern ranges.
  Read more HERE >> (21-03-09)

• Improved!!! The hillsrain skycam has been moved to a more elevated position giving a better view of the land and skyscapes.
  Check it out HERE >> (15-03-09)

• TORNADO!!! Yep the real deal Severe thunderstorms on South Australias Eyre Peninsula give birth to that most elusive of events - a tornado!
  Read more HERE >> (11-03-09)

• BABY!! Its a Boy.. Not weather I know but a new addition to my family arrived on the 5th March. Welcome to Alexander Deane Thorpe!!.
  >> (11-03-09)

• Cyclone. Tropical Cyclone Hamish off the Queensland coast is a category 4 storm with winds to 150mph (242km/h). An impressive looking storm from the satellites too.
  >>See a pic HERE (11-03-09)

• RAIN!! Almost 3 months with effectively no rainfall is broken. As often the case in recent times best falls locally are north of my location with up to 36+mm in some spots. Still after 14mm here the ground is wet, the temps are cool and the wind smells like winter.
  >> PERFECT (03-03-09)

• Dry, crispy dry. The period from September 2008 to 15th Feb 2009 is the second driest period on record for Meadows district. Only surpassed by the 1982-83 drought period.
  >> Read more HERE (15-02-09)

• The news gets worse. The death toll from the Victorian fires rises. And still the blazes rage.
  >> Amazing MODIS sat pic HERE
  >> (09-02-09)

• Victorian Tragedy. The scope of the Victorian fires is outside of comprehension. Whole towns obliterated and many many lives lost to say nothing of the loss of property. Borders mean nothing and our hearts and thoughts are with everyone involved.
  Time to band together and chip in in a way that only Australians can when under pressure.
  >> Donate and help HERE
  >> ABC news updates (08-02-09)

• ITS OVER!
  For goodness sake enough was enough. But the heatwave went out with a bang in the worse day for years. SA survives mostly firefree, not so Victoria where the state is burning under a blood red sky
  >> Read more HERE (07-02-09)

• Equal longest run of +40's on record! But this one is just a bit hotter than the benchmark 1908 heatwave.
  >> Read more HERE (03-02-09)

• Day 6 above 40! But relief is on the forecast! Just one more week of scorchers to go.
  >> Read more HERE (01-02-09)

• Dry and hot, but a possible ending in sight! 5th day above 40 for city, cooler down south. Driest Jan for 17 years for Adelaide. WHAT! is that an end to the heatwave on the forecast?
  >> Read more HERE (31-01-09

• Heat records tumble!! We continue to cook under some ridiculous conditions. The records tumble from their high perches with no end in sight! I have started a blog style report of the days as they happen
  >> Read it HERE (29-01-09)

• And Hell descendeth. Hot hot hot. My hottest day in 5 years, Adelaides even more so as they swelter in 43 degrees!
  >> Read a bit more HERE (27-01-09)

• Forecast from hell Could this be groundhog day or rather month(!!!) with march 2008? 7 days over 35 on the forecast including 3 in a row at 41 degrees! STREWTH!
  >> Read a bit more HERE (25-01-09)

• Cool Years start for 2009 An average Max temp of 24.7 and Av Min of 10.2 is 1 degree below my longer term averages giving a cool start to 2009. (This is despite a big heat burst on the 13th when we reached 36 and 42 on the plains.) Its not the coldest though, that stat goes to 2004 which was 3 degrees cooler again! The general summer climate itself thus far is some of the most boring non descript weather I have ever suffered! At least its generally cool. ;-)
  >> BRING ON WINTER! (18-01-09)

• 2008 monthly data online Monthly data from 2008 is now online. The yearly summary is still in the pipeline and should be available soon. A hardware bug misreporting wind directions (consistently) needs to be adjusted first!
  >> See the 2008 data HERE (18-01-09)

• Kangaroo Island. A few pics from my new years spent on the amazingly diverse Kangaroo Island can be seen in the galleries
  >> See the Pics HERE (18-01-09)

• Website change. The top image is no longer static, but will rotate randomly each time a page within the site is loaded. (18-01-09)

• LIghtning!! A quickfire and out of the blue dusk lightning show. A pleasant diversion from the ordinary. I managed to snap a few shots which are online in the following gallery.
  >> See the Pics HERE (21-12-08)

• On and on it goes An afternoon of even more storms! Following up from an overnight deluge of 18mm near Truro the instability spreads south with some severe storms in the mallee including serious hail dumpage. Was even half interesting down my way with a very fast 4mm and crisp as you could want evening accas. A few pics online.
  >> See the Pics HERE (17-12-08)

• Flinders Flooding Yes I know I have been slack! Report on the rain event soon. In the meantime check out these amazing images sent through to me from the recent flooding and rain in the Fliders Ranges
  >> Pics HERE (15-12-08)

• Rain in buckets Well for some anyway with falls over 100mm in just 3 days! From the SE to the Mid North it bucketed. But as usual the SE ranges gets just the dregs, admittedly nice dregs, but dregs nonetheless. Report up soon with a few pics, in the meantime have a look at the weekly rain map highlighting the deficets in the SE ranges to KI.
  >> Map HERE (14-12-08)

• Spring rainfall report The report for spring is in. My districts second driest on record!!!!
  >> Read the report HERE (02-12-08)

• November Rain. Our November may have been dry, but this has not been a countrywide problem. The east coast, SW WA, central Australia - in fact anywhere but our area has had a good month!
  >> See the rainfall map HERE (01-12-08)

• Evening perfection . While we wait for the next installment of weather (if it ever happens) the evenigns have certainly been colourful!
  >> A few pics HERE (01-12-08)

• Overnight rains. A "mini" cold outbreak delivers cold temps and rainfall to the south finally. A nice 7.5mm here and over 10 at many locations. Spring still heading for record low rainfall totals however
  >> small report HERE (22-11-08)

• Brisbane storms. fNot local but worth a mention. Brisbane and SE queensland HAMMERED by a week a wild weather.
  >> See some of the radar grabs HERE (22-11-08)

• While we wait... ... for the next weather event have a browse through some pics of my weekend at Deep Creek C.P. on the southern Fleurieu.
  >> View the gallery HERE (16-11-08)

• AWESOME! A FANTASTIC lightning display last night of the old fashioned S.A. kind. LOTS of pics to go through. Need to catch up on some sleep first ;-)
  >> Sample pics HERE, HERE & HERE
  >> (07-11-08)

• STORMS update... Small report on the recent action with some amazing radar grabs.
  >> Read the report HERE (05-11-08)

• STORMS! ... WHAT A NIGHT! Just an hours sleep and a long time winding up but a great finish with a morning corker of a storm. LOTS of pics
  >> pics in this album HERE (02-11-08)

• LIGHTNING! ... Can you believe it!!
  I actually photographed a bolt or 2. Taken at 200mm focal lengths and a long way away, but its lightning! A year in the making
  >> pics HERE and HERE (29-10-08)

• It rained! ... A freak 8.5mm at my spot and even "freakier" 26mm at Mt lofty! Biggest rain in 4 weeks and the first rain in 2 weeks. Of course it rained - hay has been cut throughout the hills :rolleyes:
  Sept/October rainfall report. This period is shaping up as the second lowest ON RECORD!
  >> Read the report HERE (27-10-08

• Abyssmal September ... Well here endeth September 2008. Pretty abyssmal month. The lowest rainfall recording for September for my spot since 1989.
  Certainly not a 120 year record for the area (based on Meadows Township), but well and truly in the lowest 10 percent or decile 1. Then there is the temps. Lowest rainfall - highest temperature .... (30-09-08)

• Update - A day to forget... Bit hard to forget though when its so well documented!! Small report on my record temperature from the 27th September now online.
  >> Read the report HERE (28-09-08)

• A day to forget... High temps in the 30's for the plains, gale force winds and no rain to ease the pain. It was my hottest EVER september day for this location! Beating the previous record by a good 3 degrees!!!! What could be worse? Surely September the 27th will go down in the top ten of the most damaging days of 2008! A day to forget. It ended with an impressive splash of colour however.
  >> PIc #1 Pic #2 (27-09-08)

• A few sparks... A few rumbles and bangs overnight? Apparently, but my area stuck in the usual clear spot of nothing, not even a drop of rain!! All north and all south. These distributions are not random and are very summer like in behaviour. Its spring though remember!
  >> Lightning map here Similar event distributions- HERE HERE HERE
  Many many more examples in the events pages (22-09-08)

• WIND! An extraordinary day of extreme winds, hail, rain and did I mention the wind?
  >> Read the report here (15-09-08)

• Lightning! Thunder, gale force winds hail and torrential rain!! That vigorous front leads us into our 4th day of +60km/h winds, produces a few sparks, some very heavy rain, buckets of small hail and about 10mm in total over the weekend. 7mm Saturday(13th) night and 3mm to Monday (15th) morning. Its not photogenic with most lightning cloud embedded and rain wrapped. However, my rather bad but....
  >> ..ubiqitous hail pic here (15-09-08)

• HOT! Ridiculous high temperautures ahead of a vigorous approaching front and very strong to gale force winds make for a shocker of a day! +30 in the northern areas, 28 in the City and 22 in the ranges!! Awful conditions and in such drying weather raised dust preceeds the front also. Satellite pic however is pretty amazing with a thousand km long sharp troughline amazingly visible!!
  >> satellite image here (13-09-08)

• Mid level sparks A tiny bit of early spring instability and a mid level deck of Altocumulus sparks off the first lightning of spring. Too sporadic to photograph but the night sky looked pretty good. Naturally I snapped a few images.
  >> Evening Sky - nighttime Sky -
  developing rainshaft - Rainshaft over western suburbs (10-09-08)

• UPDATE - Spring storms small report with animated radar loop of the localised storm cells that moved through the southern suburbs.
  >> read the report HERE (08-09-08)

• Spring storms Some surprise convection along a trough kicked up the first spring storms. Naturally they did not affect me so a "local" non-event, but they were mighty close! AGAIN! Foming in a SE flow they skipped just overhead Pelting Clarendon and Blackwood. I did snap a few pics of the views.
  >> NOARLUNGA CELL
  >> CRISP UPDRAUGHT #1
  >> CRISP UPDRAUGHT #2 (07-09-08)

• Data Summaries online Last 3 months of my weather station data have been uploaded - FINALLTY!
  >> see the data HERE (01-09-08)

• Heaviest rain of 2008? Pretty poor in the big scheme but was last nights rain and small hail drop my heaviest of the year thus far?.
  >> Brief report HERE (31-08-08)

• August has been an extraordinary month. Cold, wet and even snow.
  >> Brief report HERE (21-08-08)

• MORE SNOW! Temperatures again plummet in a very deep southerly fetch all the way from Antarctica. Snow again reported from Mt Lofty and lots of small hail over central and southern areas. Fantastic coldie line moves through on sunset.
  >> See a few pics HERE (21-08-08)

• SNOW! The temperature on Mt Lofty drops to near zero early morning of the 10th August and under a localised "coldie" big snowflakes settle above 600 metres! My spot even had likely sleet falls the evening before!! A few excellent pics and movie clip were Captured by W-Zone member Phil Bagust
  >> Pics below (new window) (10-08-08)
  >Lofty Snow 01 >Lofty Snow 02 > Short Movie Clip

• Rain hail and will it snow? A significant run of fronts, lows and a fantastic cold pool see's southern SA get good rain, hail and icy cold temperatures. Is snow possible? Maybe on Mt Lofty? Keep watching the progression of the cold!
  >>A few pics from the 9th (09-08-08)
  >Gulf Coldie >Cloud piling on ranges

• Site problems fixed. The page loading issues affecting IE users is resolved. Anyone experiencing further difficulties, please let me know. - THANKS!
  >>site meter bug fixed (03-08-08

• Site problems. IE users may have noticed hillsrain loading issues in recent days. This website uses "site meter" to track page visits which is currently causing problems with Internet Exploer users only. For now the problems have been fixed in all but the photo galleries, contact feedback and guestbook pages. Users of Firefox or opera have no problems at all. These 2 browsers are better anyway ;-) I hope the site meter problems will be resolved ASAP. My apologies!
  >>read more HERE (02-08-08)

• Cold continues ! Adelaide records its coldest July day since 1982, planes ice up at the Adelaide Airport, possible mid north snow flurries and even I have a light touch of frost!!
  >>small report HERE (28-07-08)

• Sub Zero! Minus 6 at Yunta, minus 4 through the Riverland. Almost zero at my spot and sub zero in the Hills valleys. Yep the 24th July 2008 was one cold starter statewide.
  >>Cold morning pic HERE (24-07-08)

• Temperate Cyclone??! An amazing and incredible cyclonic in structure low!! South Australia's first "cyclone" Not quite but wow!!!!!!
  >>Read the report HERE (14-07-08)

• The PERFECT low! the intense and impressive looking low in the bight has become a truly amazing beast. Incredible structure and with a cyclonic style eye!!
  >>see the incredible sat pic HERE (13-07-08)

• Impressive low spinning up in the bight! An intense and impressive looking low in the bight shows considerable rainfall potential for the next few days! It looks amazing on the satellite. What will it bring?
  >>see an animated loop HERE (12-07-08)

• Overnight rains statewide
  **updated report** Some reasonable falls over central Mt Lofties, Mid North and some of the agricultural areas.
  >>start of a report HERE (07-07-08)

• Forreston Deluge ! The recent 30th June winds also saw some decent rainfall at Forreston in the northern hills.
  >>report update HERE (07-07-08)

• And the wind continues... Batten the hatches! Windy conditions continue into their 3rd day as gale and storm force wind warnings are issued across the state. At least this time it rains. 19mm at this location. Highest falls in the central Mt lofty ranges.
  >>BOM warnings HERE (30-06-08)

• 24 hours of wind! 12 hours of strong and gusty winds followed by another 12 of gale force winds. But where is the rain? Winter has still yet to arrive in what is currently the 24th driest June in over 115 years for Meadows!
  >>small report HERE (29-06-08)

• April May WX summaries. Finally the april and may WX summaries are online. Due to unforseen circumstances the may data contains just 10 days.
  >>See the data HERE (24-06-08)

• A month of Change! Behemoth blocking highs, hail, rain, squall lines, rainfall deficets and weather that has us sentenced to a worrying mediocrity. I have finally updated as best I can (considering my absence) the events from may to now!
  >>Read the reports HERE (23-06-08)

• Squall Line!A fast moving Squall line late in the evening of the 12th hammers through with torrential rain, gale force winds, small hail and a bonus of a small lightning display that left 2133 homes without power in the hills. A very quickfire 8mm at this location and a morning total of 12mm. Highest falls in the 20mm mark over the Cental Mt Lofties. A nice diversion from the ordinary!!
  >>(13-06-08)

• Connection Issues Fixed Thanks to some excellent service from Adam Internet the weather updates should be more reliable!!
  >>(10-06-08)

• Connection Issues While away significant ADSL connection issues developed causing unreliable weather station updates. This is yet to be resolved to my satisfaction, but I am working on the problem and should be able to keep conditions current now that I am home to monitor happenings.
  >>THANKS FOR NOTHING TELSTRA (02-06-08)

• I'm BACK!!!! I have been away for the month of may in New Zealand having a break from our horrible hot dry state. An awesome place ineed. I have put up a small selection of images in higher than usual resolution. Visit the gallery from the link below and click on the larger images for a special higher res version
  >> Gallery of pics HERE (02-06-08)

• Coldest April day The 27th is the coldest april day I have recorded for my area. Similar story across the state
  >> Small report HERE (28-04-08)

• Rain report Not quite a true "my local" event but a small report on the Anzac day rains is now online. Certainly a frustrating rain distribution for many
  >> Read the report HERE (28-04-08)

• Rain update A huge disappointment for the southern ranges with very low rain totals as the impressivly structured system fails again and again on approach. A different story over the plains and northern ranges where torrential rain, hail and even thunder dumps over the region. The cold air made for some nice scenery.
  >> A few pics HERE (27-04-08)

• Anzac day rain It finally rained! Sparing the Anzac day services and coming down late evening. Best falls as always over northern plains and hills with 22mm the highest at Millbrook. Disappointing generally well below 10mm falls down south. But more is to come!
  >> Rain distributions HERE
  >> stay tuned for updates (26-04-08)

• One amazing evening! Southern drizzle, rainbows and late evening sun. Perfection down the Bull Creek Valley
  >> see the pics HERE (14-04-08)

• Windy front Report! Strong winds, small hail rain and and dust
  >> read the report HERE (06-04-08)

• Record March Temperatures! My hottest ever March with an amazing average maximum of 27 degrees!
  >> See the report HERE (06-04-08)
  >> See the WX DATA HERE (05-04-08)

• Meadows Destroyed!!!! A 200 home housing development in Meadows Township is made public. The death of a town is imminent. Is it obvious I am against this? Voice your opinion.
  >> Read more and leave your comments HERE (1-03-08)
  This is a "sticky" see below for latest news

• Somewhat windy! A very vigorous front SMASHES my location with a 102km/h wind gust. 137km/h at Cape Willoughby!! Power outages across state with wind and storm damage. Hurricane force winds forecast for Melbourne! Report soon - in the meantime a few pics
  #1 #2 #3 #4 (02-04-08)

• It finally acts like Autumn... Summer has finally nicked off for a bit and given us our first real Autumnal morning. Perfect!
  See the Pics HERE (27-03-08)

• Rain!... The heat has gone for now and some rain has blessed a few. But a drought breaker its not and the falls are patchy in classic SW streams. Pt Pirie tops the list with an inch on the old scale in the damp south west airstream. (26-03-08)

• Easter Pics... I spent Easter camped at Mambray Creek. A few images can be seen in the gallery below..
  >> View the gallery HERE. (26-03-08)

• BOM Heatwave summary... The Bureau have sumamrised the heatwave records. An amazing read.
  >> Download PDF HERE. (20-03-08)

• Heatwave summary... The day dawned clear and cool.......
  >> Read more HERE. (18-03-08)

• A cool wind blows... This chapter of history is finally finished! And it is one page I am glad to turn over. Its the morning of the 18th and the air is cool.........
  >> Report soon. (18-03-08)

• Heatwave update #3 FIRE!! heat records tumble down the rabbit hole! A new heatwave update online.
  >> Read more HERE (13-03-08)

• Heatwave update #2 Adelaide sets new autumn benchmark. Forecast is unbelievable!! A new heatwave update online.
  >> Read more HERE (11-03-08)

• Heatwave update The records are tumbling! A heatwave update online.
  >> Read more HERE (10-03-08)

• March heatwave! South Australia swelters in a potential record breaking heatwave. Already I have broken my own personal march records and its going to set a massive benchmark with no break in sight..
  >> Read more HERE (08-03-08)

• February average Down the line average for Feb in the Southern Ranges, even av rainfall!
  >> Read more HERE (20-02-08)

• February weather summary from Meadows online
  >> See the data HERE (1-03-08)
  >> See the graphs HERE (1-03-08)

• Biggest Rainfall in 2 months! A weak front delivers the largest rain totals in 2 months to some southern areas! 11.5mm here and cool conditions to break the summer heat.
  >> Read more HERE (20-02-08)

• Nothing to report in S.A. Literally! S.A. residents will know just how awesomely boring and dry its been this summer. So try this on for size. Mackay in Queensland has been flooded with 625mm in 24 hours including 180 of those mm in JUST ONE HOUR. Stop and think about this for a while!!!! Send it south please.
  >> press release HERE (16-02-08)

• The January weather summary from Meadows now online - finally! Its hardly worth looking at so boring has the weather been of late!
  >> See the data HERE (16-02-08)
  >> See the graphs HERE (16-02-08)

• It has been a boring season storm wise. So for a diversion why not some local pics from the Australia Day long weekend? Fog, northern storms and night sky.
  >> See the pics HERE (28-01-08)

• Thunderstorm update. Amazing data from Josh Hagger shows how intense the recent storms were!!
  >> See the data HERE (28-01-08)

• HP thunderstorms! A narrow line of storms along a seabreeze convergence dumps some amazing 2 inch rainfalls in a very short time with localised flooding!
  >> Read more HERE (19-01-08)

• Was that rain on the weekend? The first "rain" (for want of a better word) for 2007. Rain or perhaps mizzle it was at least wet? Just 1.25mm here and the first drop for 21 days! (10-01-08)

• A few more summer stats! Is this a record breaking run of heat for the Meadows Hills. At least since 2002 it is!
  >> Read more HERE (10-01-08)

• Hot, Cold and more! The summary of 2007 weather data and graphs online. Plus a NEW page summarizing ALL years data as collected by the weather station.
  >> The 2007 wrapup HERE (05-01-08)
  >> All years summary HERE (05-01-08)

• Dec Weather Summary Online Final summary of 2007.
  >> See the data HERE (05-01-08)

• Southern Australia Swelters! Happy new year or ridiculously hot New Year? We all melt in amazing and record breaking heat across Southern Australia
  >> Read more HERE (02-01-08)

• NYE set to cook! Nasty temps into the 40's await New Years Eve Celebrations. Down my way the highest temps of the season undo all the good of the recent rain event as if it had never happened.
  >> Read more HERE (29-12-07)

• Rain Report online A small report of the recent rain event is finally online.
  >> Read more HERE (29-12-07)

• Just how good was that? LOTS of rain across the southern part of the state! Shatters locally the extreme dry with up to 70mm in the higher ranges! Lightning thunder and torrential rain and localised flooding at Mt Barker. I snapped a few images as the line approached Meadows.
  >> See the pics HERE (22-12-07)

• Pinnaroo Hammered by storms. Severe thunderstorms hit the Mallee scoring a direct hit to Pinnaroo damaging homes and property! Matt Harvey captures amazing images from the town.
  >> More HERE (19-12-07)

• Amazing Sun-ring. An incredible ring around the sun reflects and refracts through a thin veil of cirrus during the afternoon. Its clarity was incredible!
  >> A few pics # 1 - # 2 - # 3 (17-12-07)

• November Weather Summary. Better late than never! Summary for the Bull Creek Ranges finally online.
  >> See the data HERE (17-12-07)

• KI fires update. Fires finally declared contained but not before burning 20% of the island!
  >> More HERE (15-12-07)

• KI Tragic fires report. A small report and satellite images on the Kangaroo Island fires online.
  >> Read the report HERE (09-12-07)

• Lightning, fire and smoke. Strong winds (108km/h recorded at Roseworthy), lots of heat and dry lightning. Not the best of mixes! Up she goes - Kangaroo Island nasty fires, Yorke Peninsula - nasty fires and closer to home O'Halloran Hill fires up. Cool wind change arrives late evening but no real rain to quell the dry. (06-12-07)

• Storms and fog report Report of recent riverland storms and southern fog now online.
  >> Read the report HERE (03-12-07)

• Incredible Riverland Storms! Storms of Amazing Intensity Hammer the Riverland and parts of the Mallee. I was stuck locally but snapped a few pics as they looked from near Meadows. Report and radar loops to follow soon.
  >> See them HERE (29-11-07)

• Storms Update! small report on recent stormy weather online plus some more pics added to the gallery.
  >> Read it HERE (21-11-07)

• Storms! A huge line of amazingly lightning active storms moves in from the west. Unfortuneately it slips to the south of the city leaving sleep for most undisturbed. I managed to capture a few average images with the "long" lens
  >> View them HERE (20-11-07)

• New sky-CAM view. The sky cam has been moved to a new clearer location.
  >> View it HERE
  >> Info on the view HERE (19-11-07)

• Home page change. You may have noticed a slight change in the way the home page looks? An improved page (hopefully) is on trial. Please report any page issues. (18-11-07)

• Heatwave update. A report on the amazing november heat up to the 17th is now online. This will be updated as the event progresses.
  >> Read it HERE (17-11-07)

• Heatwave? Could this be the first heatwave of the season for the city and north? With 3 days of + 30 degrees already behind Kent Town, up to 5+ days further north. The next 7+ daysare also forecast to be above 30! EEK!! Much milder in southern ranges with us yet to reach our forst 30 degree day and temps generally in the mid to low 20's. (13-11-07)

• UPDATE The weekly rainfall map now online from the recent rain event.
  >> See it - HERE (06-11-07)

• REPORT online for the most recent rain event. Over 100mm seen in the last week over some SE centres!
  >> Read more HERE (04-11-07)

• Floods! Over 30mm in less than 15 minutes in Pt Augusta leaving the landscape awash! Homes and roads awash along the Stirling North Road. Meanwhile Mt Gambier begins to rack up some serious totals with 35mm in half a day and still climbing! (03-11-07)

• September and October weather summaries online HERE. A new rainfall data page from Forreston added - HERE (03-11-07)

• Rain anyone? A good old fashioned NW infeed just keeps adding to the rain. Another 21mm here brings my total for the last fortnight to more than 70mm with much more likely yet to come! Some of the better falls overnight to the 3rd can be seen HERE. Report soon
  (03-11-07)

• More rain! Another 10mm and the tap just won't switch off. 50mm in 10 days! It did make for a spectacular fog rolling up the Bull Creek Valley. See a gallery of images HERE (01-11-07)

• UPDATE Storms, lightning and more rain. Lucky the cold pool fell apart for those cutting hay! The report is online and can be read HERE (27-10-07)

• Storms. A stormy and blustery night with heavy rain over northern regions (as always!) plus a few lightning strikes. Too much rain for good pics. Just a couple HERE and HERE Report soon (28-10-07)

• UPDATE #2 Rainfall totals are in from the storms. A few amazing flood images are also online. More HERE (24-10-07)

• UPDATE! The mid north is hammered by severe storms, people are struck by lightning and floods damage Yorke Peninsula and surrounds. Amazing rainfall totals! Read more HERE This will be updated as information comes to hand (23-10-07)

• Oh NO! The hay is cut and on the ground and rain it does. Very well actually! Read the beginnings of the report HERE It will be updated as the system unfolds (22-10-07)

• New. 24 hour lightning archive added to the lightning page HERE (22-10-07)

• From Hot to Cold. 24 degree tops in the hills and 30 degrees on the plains to 13 degree maximums less than 24 hours later. The spring rollercoaster is under way. The forecast for the next week is just as topsy turvey. Read the forecast notes to keep up with the changes (16-10-07)

• First rain of October and we already 11 days in! Another local flop at my location, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. More HERE (11-10-07)

• Beautiful start to the morning in the hills! Foggy, misty and loaded with texture. See a few pics HERE (5-10-07)

• Perfect example of the SW moisture stream! Todays satellite image displays one of the best examples of the ranges moisture streams. This particular stream is responsible for some of the most impressive 24 hour rain totals. See more HERE (3-10-07)

• DRY! Driest September for 13 years at my location. Water problems countrywide worsen. Don't blame the weather or "global warming", its all happened before! No this is a politicically induced disaster. See more stats HERE (1-10-07)

• Frustration. Nth Ranges, Mallee, Mid North, Yorke Pen, Adelaide Plains - all 10-20mm. SE Ranges 2-4mm. Another complete failure in my area leaves us wanting for rain yet again. (26-09-07)

• Aberration? Fluke or consistent local dead spot? Another flop down my way. Read the report HERE (19-09-07)

• Squall A narrow squall delivers torrential rain and damaging winds. Read the report HERE (17-09-07)

• Rain More rain YET AGAIN favours the northern ranges. Plus some spectacular images from Echunga. Read the report HERE (14-09-07)

• Pics A nice band of rain delivers 8.5mm at my spot and some surreal sunset colours. A few pics HERE, HERE and HERE. (13-09-07)

• UPDATE The front, the low, the flop. It did rain, but how much and where? Read the report HERE. (11-09-07)

• Will it or won't it rain? A low spins up in the bight, the forecasts say rain, but will it actually do it? Or is it too little too late? Fingers crossed as South Australia heads into the uncharted waters of serious rainfall desperation. (09-09-07)

• August Weather Summary now online. A dry and hot month. See the data HERE (30-08-07)

• Stop Press ! A surprise and unexpected but VERY welcome 15.25mm plus falls from the recent rainband in isolated spots, including here at this website location!! Softening the blow of the heat and wind (30-08-07)

• Update! statewide temperature records tumble on the states first EVER winter fire ban! Read more HERE (30-08-07)

• Total fire ban in Winter! The year goes from bad to worse to disaster. Read more HERE (29-08-07)

• Moon Eclipse! Check out my collage of images from the lunar eclipse of 28th August 2007! See the pic HERE (28-08-07)

• Groundhog Year? And we thought 2006 was a dry year. 2007 it seems is walking the same path. Dry, warm and even more dry with weeks of rainless weather in winter!! Read more HERE 26-08-07)

• A week of shocking winds! Constant, relentless and gale force. Read the report HERE 11-08-07)

• July weather summary online. Average temps and average rainfalls in the southern ranges. See the data HERE (06-07-07)

• Spectacular fog shrouds the hills on a cold winter monday morning. See the pics HERE (30-07-07)

• A summery style front returns rainfall distributions and intensity to their most frustrating for my area delivering only light drizzly falls that have dominated previous years. Read more HERE (30-07-07)

• WINTER!! Yep, its been cold wet, windy with storms, hail and lightning that has seen fantastic rainfall recordings and Adelaides Coastline battered. Read the report of the first week of July HERE (07-07-07)

• New Record! Record June cold at this location. See the stats HERE (24-06-07)

• Winter is certainly here! My average max temp has been just 10.3 degrees for June thus far. Combined with 118mm of rain for the month to date it certainly feels like a good old fashioned winter blast. (20-06-07)

• This is cool! A real time projection of our planet with current cloud clover, day and night projection. More HERE (11-06-07)

• A rain band from the deep south delivers a quick fire 18mm to my location in a patchy stream. More HERE (11-06-07)

• May weather summary online. Cool wintry temps and average rainfalls mark the month for the South Eastern ranges. See the data HERE (06-06-07)

• UPDATE Huge rains sauturate the Mt Lofty district and Adelaide Plains, while delivering little more than drizzle down south. Updated report HERE (02-06-07)

• Report online of the storm action on the 28th. What should have been a rainfall event with the cold pool pretty much flopped again for me. Not so for many others. Read the report HERE (31-05-07)

• BOOM! - Another cold pool approaches and another line of damned hard to photograph storms form ahead of the front. A few pics online HERE (29-05-07)

• Update - report on the midnight storm that hammered through on the 21st is now online. Read it HERE (23-05-07)

• Midnight storm hammers 9mm in short time plus the first thunderstorm origin hail at this location since my records began! Not as photogenic with moslty intra cloud lightning. 2 pics though of the approaching rain lit by lightning HERE and HERE (21-05-07)

• Adelaide circled from space? Strange satellite image from the modis real time database. see the image HERE (19-05-07)

• Update 2 the low gives some spectacular lightning to the mallee. Updated report HERE (18-05-07)

• Update The system continues to frustrate! Failed rains here again!! Difficult photography! Read the report HERE (15-05-07)

• Lightning! The most difficult to photograph and frustrating of storms moves through Yorkes and Southern Fleurieu Peninsulas! A "sorry" attempt at images can be seen HERE (14-05-07)

• More rain? Could this forecast by Weatherzone and GFS come to pass? Check out the loop HERE covering the period 14-05-07 to 17-05-07 showing potential precipitation (11-05-07)

• Wet April . Wettest april since 1971! Monthly data summary online HERE (02-05-07)

• Strong winds to 90kmh buffet southern hills. Strongest at this locale 80km/h. read more HERE (02-05-07)

• *UPDATE* The rain is over for now! Final report with a weekly statewide rain bulletin now online Read it HERE (30-04-07)

• *Report online* The first installment of the report of the massive april rains is online Read it HERE (29-04-07)

• *DELUGE* The season breaks with a bang and torrential rain . A few pics online HERE report to follow as the central and northern hills cops over 100mm in 72 hours. (28-04-07)

• *WOO HOO* Not really anything to do with weather, but welcome to the world my first Daughter - Grace.. HERE (28-04-07)

• *UPDATE* Whats going on with Fleurieu Peninsula and southern areas forecasts? more HERE (15-04-07)

• Nightmare forecast and drought report. The indian summer continues to keep the rain away. Read more HERE (11-04-07)

• Ring around the moon. A near full moon and cirrus create some amazing scenes near Copeville in the SA Mallee. Pics HERE (09-04-07)

• On goes the dry. Southern SA's season refuses to break with extremely dry conditions prevailing in the first weeks of April. More HERE (28-03-07)

• Steady as she goes. In a first this year, March was a pretty much average across the board month. Average temps, average rains and average winds. Monthly data summary online HERE (28-03-07)

• First ever Hurricane wind warning for Southern Australian Waters. More HERE (28-03-07)

• Update 2. New map added to show the "failure zone" of the recent rain event. HERE (25-03-07)

• Update. Well rain it did. There may have been a desperately needed 8mm at my spot, however I can only class it as a rainfall flop! Read why HERE (23-03-07)

• Rain possible? A very good unstable sunrise precedes an approaching front. Will it finally deliver rains above 2mm for the south eastern ranges? hhhhhmmm time will tell. Keep watching this space.Pic . Pic (23-03-07)

• Lightning! A small and mostly rainfree front delivers a nice little lightning show. See the pics as captured from Victor Harbour HERE. A small report can also be read HERE (04-03-07)

• February 2007 weather summary online. Our hottest Feb ever! See the data and graphs - HERE. A report on the feb extremes can be read HERE (04-03-07

• One in a million! I captured the explosion of defunct Russian Breeze M rocket body in orbit More HERE. (22-02-07)

• Lightning gives an early morning show. Report and pics online HERE. (22-02-07)

• UPDATE #3! Little wave of heat and instability pauses and takes a breath. Final report and pics online HERE. (19-02-07)

• UPDATE #2 Shocking heat and wind bake the southern ranges More HERE. This page is constantly updating as this event unfolds (18-02-07)

• UPDATE Video from the Meadows cell and an update to the report. Speccy convective rain cells deluge the Mallee and river district near Mannum More HERE. (17-02-07)

• Extremely rare convective cell dumps in isolation over Meadows only. More HERE. Plus some speccy storm pics on the SA-Vic border as captured by Matt Harvey. HERE and HERE (15-02-07)

• My hottest day in 3 years! Coastal regions remain cool. Read more with temp graph HERE.(05-02-07)

• January 2007 weather summary online. Now includes dewpoint statistics! See the data and graphs - HERE.(03-02-07)

• The huge desert rains from the recent monsoonal low are having a flow on effect to our lakes. See the amazing images HERE.(26-01-07)

• **WOW** Comet McNaught wows southern hemisphere residents. See the views from down my way as captured by yours truly. HERE.(24-01-07)

• The state is drenched with amazing rainfall totals. Report is online with some amazing photos HERE.(20-01-07)

• NEW! Ever wanted to know how to photograph lightning? A small tutorial on my method can be seen HERE.(18-01-07)

• A significant rain event is on the cards for much of SA. Falls approaching 100+mm are possible over the northern areas. Down my spot we may see 10-15mm, but there is a chance of much heavier falls over the normal Mt Lofty locales. Keep watching this space for updates.(18-01-07)

• Update Mt Bold fire still burning, but within containment lines. Mopping up quick as 40 degree temps are on the way again! Read more HERE.(11-01-07)

• FIRE! A shocker of a day with stinking temps and shocking winds. Too close to home this one! PICS HERE.(10-01-07)

• 2006 data summary from Meadows online here Visit Current Obs Home Page for all years data (08-01-07)

• UPDATE! New Years Eve report online. Read the story here (05-01-07)

• New Years Eve and mother nature puts on the best lightning show I have seen to date in the Mallee! I captured some of my best ever images as we rolled over into 2007. See the album here (01-01-07)

• Flangfest! Storms again and close strike images. See the album here (29-12-06)

• Surprise Thunderies sweep across Central SA. A few pics of the morning cloud and scenery here here and here (29-12-06)

• Report of the "Funnel" event now online. Make up your own mind! More fantastic pics also. HERE (24-12-06)

• Possible Funnel capture as SA cops a nice stormy system. Lots of photo's HERE (22-12-06)

• Crazy topsy Turvey weather as I record my coldest december temp. More HERE (12-12-06)

• Adelaide swelters under summers first 40 degree day more HERE (08-12-06)

• The dry conditions continue. November weather summary online HERE (07-12-06)

• **Updated** Fantastic daytime lightning strike captured by Peter Bannister. HERE (22-11-06)

• Fires, Lightning and storms roar across SA HERE (21-11-06)

• **RECORD** Coldest yet November day, Frosts and snow in Queensland More HERE (19-11-06)

• **New Report** The report for the recent lightning and storm event now online HERE (18-11-06)

• **LIGHTNING!** Finally after 10 months a small lightning show breaks the "drought". Pics HERE (11-11-06)

• **UPDATED** State rainfall report updated. HERE (18-10-06)

• **FINALLY** August and September weather sumamries from the weather station are finally online! HERE (18-10-06)

• **UPDATE** The 12th Oct sets new records. A shocker of a day. More HERE (12-10-06)

• From bad to worse! Fires, heat and amazing DP and RH recordings on the west coast. More HERE (11-10-06)

• The shocking season continues with extreme heat records! More HERE (04-10-06)

• While the weather is boring check out some pics from the Strathalbyn Ag Show HERE (02-10-06)

• SDS is affecting us all. Desperation "storm" chase. Not by me but Tim Eckert through the mid north as weak mid level instability gives some rumbles. Read his report HERE (02-10-06)

• Rain Hail, winter style coldies, lightning and thunder! More HERE (24-09-06)

• Gale force winds hammer ranges with gusts above 80km/h. More HERE (24-09-06)

• Instability delivers surprise hail in an otherwise dry windy front. More HERE (20-09-06)

• Good falls ease dry over the ranges. More rain in 7 days than in the previous 40! More HERE (10-09-06)

• Driest Winter on record on the plains and not much better in the hills. Add to this record high temps! More HERE (2-09-06)

• State monthly rainfall report finally updated! HERE (22-08-06)

• Severe Winds, High Temps and Video from a nasty August Day. HERE (19-08-06)

• Amazing Sydney Tornado/ landspout footage HERE (07-08-06)

• July 2006 Bull Creek Ranges weather summary online. See the stats HERE (02-08-06)

• A fast moving front dumps 21mm in short time causing flooding around the house. July's rain total now an impressive 216mm! Read the report and see the pics HERE (30-07-06)

• Some nice convection saw localised heavy rainfall. (see PIC) Nothing at my spot but the sunset was good. (See PIC). (23-07-06)

• Record! Frosts and record cold. more HERE (20-07-06)

• **OMG** 124mm in less than 72 hours! A much needed drenching for the Southern Ranges. Read the story and see the pics HERE (15-07-06)

• Our second coldest day with a  top of just 4.9 degrees + 25mm of rain. More HERE (15-07-06)

• Check out these 2 frost pics sent in by Chris Henshke of Moculta. PIC#1 PIC#2 (13-07-06)

• A very windy night with gale force winds delivers the warmest night time minimums in 62 days! More HERE (10-07-06)

• **UPDATE**  June 2006 is the driest ever June at this location. more HERE (03-07-06)

• June Weather Summary for the Bull Creek Ranges online HERE (03-07-06)

• 2006 has been the year of the central and northern hills rainwise. The front on 30th june was a classic example. Read more and see the map HERE. (30-06-06)

• **LOOK** Hillsrain finally back on the air after network connection problems! Current Weather and Skycam updating again as usual. (29-06-06)

• A very dry June dominated by huge powerful highs looks set to deliver record low rainfalls across much of SA. Frosts and extreme cold cause havoc. More HERE (29-06-06)

• May Weather Summary for the Bull Creek Ranges online HERE (29-06-06)

• **NEW** South Australian and Australian 3 day rainfall forecast maps. Try the new Beta test page HERE (25-05-06)

• **UPDATE** The cold starts result in local frosts. See a few pics - HERE + some more stats on the temps HERE (25-05-06)

• The 23rd May 06 saw a top of 7.7 degrees at 2:35pm which is the lowest maximum daytime temp for May I have recorded at this location...... More HERE (24-05-06)

• The cool mornings have given us some pretty good scenery. I caught a little bit of mother natures best as the fog lifted this morning. HERE (22-05-06)

• After 9 consecutive days and 97mm of rain in the beginning of May, the highs returned to dominate.. More HERE (22-05-06)

• Pyro_Cumulus forms in smoke from the kuitpo fires. HERE (10-05-06)

• **UPDATED** The wet start to may continues. Read the report and see the New images added to the album of the event! HERE (10-05-06)

• April Weather Summary for the Bull Creek Ranges online HERE (10-05-06)

• The most significant front of the year delivers good falls, wind and hail. I was in the mallee - some pics HERE Report soon (08-05-06)

• **UPDATED** The most average start to my year I have recorded. See the graph and report HERE Report soon (08-05-06)

• **UPDATED** Cyclone Monica collapses as crossing coast. Darwin Spared Some new images added to the report HERE (26-04-06)

• **UPDATE** Tropical Cyclone Monica holds intensity with winds to 350km/h! Darwin is on alert. More as this unfolds. (24-04-06)

• Yet ANOTHER cat 5 cyclone hits northern Australia HERE (23-04-06)

• Southern SA's season break continues more HERE (23-04-06)

• **NEW** 2006 State Rainfall report added HERE (06-04-06)

• **UPDATED** New questions and answers on the "What is" page by Ian Holton. Read more HERE (06-04-06)

• **NEW** Spalding drowns and Agricultural SA may have gotten an early season Break. Read more HERE (03-04-06)

• 2 Category 5 Cyclones over Northern Australia in less than 2 weeks! Amazing weather indeed. See more HERE (03-04-06)

• Feb and March data finally updated! HERE (02-04-06)

• Yet another rain event misses me while Adelaide drowns in storms + interesting outflow on doppler radar HERE (27-02-06)

• January 2006 was a hot one! The weather summary FINALLY online. HERE (21-02-06)

• Hillsrain Images feature in Hahndorf Queens Baton Relay display. See some pics HERE (13-02-06)

• **NEW** Where does the rain fall in Central SA Our local rainfall streams plotted. HERE (06-02-06)

• **NEW** What is "..." ? An explanation of weather terminology. HERE (06-02-06)

• Surprise Morning Storms!!! More HERE (28-01-06)

• Devastating fires in the Grampians blanket SA in smoke. More HERE (26-01-06)

• Report of the Heatwave and 8 hour lightning event online. See it HERE (26-01-06)

• 8 hours of lightning in the first storm of 2006 delivers some spectacular images!! pics HERE (20-01-06)

• 2005 ANNUAL State rain report HERE (10-01-06)

• **NEW** Annual Weather Summary online! View the data HERE (06-01-06)

• Hottest December Day in Adelaide since 1939. More HERE (31-12-05)

• Lightning causes fires statewide. pics HERE and report HERE (29-12-05)

• **UPDATED** Lightning feast from line of dry thunderstorms!!! pics HERE and report HERE (11-12-05)

• November weather summary online. HERE (11-12-05)

• High based thunderstorms give some nice structure about the ranges. A few pics HERE (27-11-05)

• New Australian and South Australian wind streamline charts available. View them HERE (21-11-05)

• Floods devastate the Adelaide Plains bordering the Gawler River. Much more happened in this astounding system. Report on the event HERE (11-11-05)

• Incredible rains deluge the central and northern hills resulting in widespread flooding. Highest 24 hour total an amazing 118.2mm from Uraidla. Some pics online HERE (08-11-05)

• 2005 State rain report updated HERE (06-11-05)

• Record Breaking October monthly rainfall for SA. HERE (06-11-05)

• October weather summary online. HERE (02-11-05)

• Report online for the 16th October southern hills storm and 23-24th drenchings HERE (29-10-05)

• Adelaides new Buckland Park Doppler radar is online! Visit the radar page to view the radar scans (27-10-05)

• Heavy rains overnight on the 24th Oct deluge the ranges with totals from 30 to 75mm! Minor flooding alerts issued - report up soon! (24-10-05)

• 2 days of instability result in the rarest of beasts - A storm over the Southern Ranges. See the pics HERE (17-10-05)

• Lightning, freezing temps and hail. Read the report and see the pics HERE (09-10-05)

• Thunderstorms lightning then hail! Read the report HERE (05-10-05)

• September weather summary online. HERE (03-10-05)

• Hillsrain Severe Weather Image Sales. More info on images available HERE

• September Heat record! HERE (08-09-05)

• Check out the new current OZ lightning maps. HERE (01-09-05)

• August weather summary online. HERE (01-09-05)

• August thunderstorms! Read the report and check out the lightning pics HERE (31-08-05)

• Winter Rainfall wrapup HERE (31-08-05)

• Check these out for some great Mallee Sunsets. Pics HERE and HERE (28-08-05)

• Windy change delivers a mixed bag. More info HERE (15-08-05)

• The GUESTBOOK is back up and running! Leave us some feedback HERE (10-08-05)

• DELUGE!!! Read the report HERE (10-08-05)

• Winter rains continue. Read the report HERE (10-08-05)

• June 2005 State rain report HERE (08-08-05)

• July updates now online HERE (08-08-05)

• Winter arrives with a blast! HERE (20-06-05)

• Karoonda in the SA mallee hit by possible tornado!! Serious damage to many homes. Images and report available HERE  (20-06-05)

• May 2005 State rain report HERE (14-06-05)

• May 2005 data now HERE (14-06-05)

• Hottest June day on record for this websites location! HERE (07-06-05)

• The dry spell continues with the driest EVER Autumn in many SA centres including Meadows. HERE (26-05-05)

• April 2005 data now HERE (26-05-05)

• April 2005 dry spell HERE (26-05-05)

• Lights camera action part 2! As promised the images and video footage of the channel seven news segment can be seen HERE (09-04-05)

• April 2005 sets new Maximum Temp records! See the stats HERE (02-04-05)

• March 2005 State rain report HERE (02-04-05)

• March 2005 data now HERE (02-04-05)

• Lights camera action! Channel 7 Adelaide comes to the hills to do a feature story on SA stormchasers. Yours truly and other members of the SA ASWA branch found themselves in front of the cameras as Melody Horrill from the news crew grilled them about their weather habits. I'll have a report up soon. (28-03-05)

• Feb 2005 State rain report HERE (07-03-05)

• February 2005 data now HERE (07-03-05)

• January 2005 data now HERE (08-02-05)

• Photo Gallery upgraded. Its still in the integration phase, please report any bugs.  Follow the link at the bottom of this page (08-02-05)

• Rain, Hail and cold! The Feb Cold snap of 2005. Read the report HERE  (07-02-05)

• Australia Day Storms. Yet more spectacular storms east of the ranges Read the report HERE  (07-02-05)

• STORMS - an approaching front and trough delivers more than expected. Read the report HERE  (23-01-05)

• Bushfire! A tragic loss of life on the Eyre Peninsula and fires in the Hills on a day of extremes. HERE (17-01-05)

• The first storms of 2005 HERE (17-01-05)

• Addition to the 6th Dec Storms page HERE (17-01-05)

• 2004 yearly weather summary now online HERE (10-01-05)

• Final 2004 State rain report HERE (10-01-05)

• It all started December 6th 2004. STORMS STORMS STORMS (18-12-04)

• What sort of cloud is that. A new cloud identification page which can be viewed HERE (10-11-04)

• Quite a November deluge indeed. Rain Hail and funnels. Read the report HERE (08-11-04)

• High based storms break dry spell. Check out the pics HERE (03-11-04)

• October 2004 State rain report HERE (1-11-04)

• Record Breaking day of heat! See current local events pages. (12-10-04)

• Early Morning Lightning show - see the pics HERE (11-10-04)

• September 2004 State rain report HERE (11-10-04)

• False Threat, the storm that did not eventuate. (16-09-04)

• August 2004 State rain report HERE (16-09-04)

• Extreme rains and flooding! (09-08-04)

• Check out the monthly rainfall data from selected private stations around the ranges HERE (01-07-04)

• June 2004 great month rain wise. View the monthly report HERE (01-07-04)

• Winter storm and lightning pics.HERE (06-05-04)

• Unbelievable fog images! HERE (06-05-04)

• April state rain and local summary now available (06-05-04)

• Check out the local weather events pages HERE (06-04-04)

• 2004 March State rainfall report HERE (06-04-04)

• 2004 Febuary State rainfall report HERE (05-03-04)

• 2004 January State rainfall report HERE (03-02-04)

• 4 new pictures added to the Photo Album (18-01-04)

• Recently The SA Tourism Commission released  a Pamphlet titled "Battunga Country" It has information on trails, places to see and things to do. For a preview "click here" (08-01-04)

• 2003 state rain report HERE (08-01-04)

• Some of my best lightning pics to date from the storms of 29-11-03 HERE (1-12-03)

• Storm report with photo gallery from the 19-11-03 system to hit the state HERE(1-12-03)

• The Mt Pleasant NRC's rainfall forum report!!! (30-09-03)

• 10 more pics added to the Photo Album (5-08-03)

• August 2003 State Rainfall report available HERE (5-08-03)

• SNOW!!! (10-08-03)

• July 2003 State Rainfall report available HERE (4-08-03)

• How wet is your spot in the Mt Lofty Ranges? A list of selected stations from highest to lowest. HERE (03-08-03)

• New photo album and new images have a look HERE (21-07-03)

• June 2003 State Rainfall report available HERE (3-07-03)

• Report from the 6th June heavy rains HERE (16-06-03)

• Check out these pics of flooding near Kangarilla after the 23rd May 2003 deluge HERE (29-05-03)

• Leave some feedback on the Hillsrain Guestbook......

• Some more pics added to the Photo Album and 602 Gallery (10-05-03)

• Districts South East of the Ranges suffer a particularly STRONG rain shadow.  Have a look HERE. (13-04-03)

• Have a look at this for a sunrise from Copeville in the SA mallee!  (11-04-03)

• Not really weather related, but I have a new toy! Check out my s602Z Photo Gallery (21-03-03)

• 2003 Monthly Rainfall Report for South Australian districts available HERE (10-02-03)

• 2002 Bull Creek Ranges Weather Summary Now Available HERE (05-01-03)

• Now there is a dewpoint calculator with all the other weather calculators! HERE

• New interactive Map of the Sth Mt Lofty Ranges available "HERE" (03-12-02)

• Spectacular line of thunderstorms hits SA. Check out the report and radar loop of the event! (25-11-02)

• Finally a Domain for "Hillsrain" re-bookmark the page to WWW.HILLSRAIN.COM " update your favourites now" (19-11-02)

• NEW! Sky-CAM images from the Bull Creek Ranges....HERE (13-10-02)

• How wet is your part of the world? Was that thunder? Find the answer HERE (1-10-02)

• Pictures of South Australian Weather events in the new Photo Album Pages now available. (This page will grow!) (23-09-02)

• Check out the new Animated map of South Australia's Rainfall distribution over 12 months (24-08-02)

• Current Bull Creek Ranges Observations now updated every 10 minutes between 11:00am & 2:00pm weekdays! (02-08-02)

• Use the new Weather Calculator for all those conversions here (23-06-02) 

• Visit other 1 wire weather stations in use around the globe here (30-05-02)

• Search for Australian Weather Conditions and data Worldwide. All on my search page HERE (04-04-02)

• Barometric Pressure now part of the current observations page (04-03-02)

• Weather Station and Current Observations moved to Meadows. (1-01-02)

• We now have our 15 minutes of FAME. Check out the article about this website "HERE" (1-12-01)

• What is this Weather Station and how does it work? (23-11-01)

• Site Map, Site and Web Search page now available. (14-10-01)

• Meadows and Bull Creek Historical Rainfall Data Now Available (25-09-01)

• Visit     COPEVILLE BUGGY CLUB     &     KERRY'S WEB     (22-06-01)

• Weather Radar Loop now available! (06-01-01)

• New temperature sensors added to current Echunga Observations (06-01-01)

• See just how much of a rain shadow Echunga is in!! HERE (21-12-00)

• Weather Radar and current satellite images are HERE! (2-12-00)

• More data from around the Mt Lofty Ranges 2000 2001 2002