This site features weather photography and storm chasing accounts from my home town of Coffs Harbour NSW Australia.

Update February 9 2008:
Well February has already started better then January. We had 2 days of storms this week locally. Feb 6 and 8. Last night I got out to phorograph some lightning with my newly acqiured license! yes finally!. An intense looking storm on radar developed on night fall to the west of Nambucca and moved out to sea. Lightning was very intense in this storm which should have meant I got a lot of nice photos but extremely frustrating was a layer of cumlus congestus which did a great job of obscuring the storms udprafts and lightning bolts, add to this some rain between me and the storms base and you get nothing but brighter lit areas in a dark featureless photo, so it didn't matter how frequent the lightning was as I couldn't see it. Still was nice to have another storm in Feb already. I hold some hope for more lightning offshore in the same direction tonight but it seems unlikely, though some storms/showers are pushing there way up the coast from the hunter as I speak, maybe a small window of opportunity there.

Update January 26 2008:
Since October 2007 the storm season has been very quiet for Coffs Harbour, only 2 storms in November and 1 in December, usually 2 very stormy months. Its now the end of January and I haven't seen a storm since December 16, uff! I'm hoping for a good February and Autumn. Autumn last year was quite good hopefully a repeat.

Update November 11:
After a very stormy October in NE NSW, especially for poor old Lismore (hailstorms and a tornado)  november has been quiet thus far for thunderstorms. I have added the albums for the storm/thunder days for Coffs Harbour in my photobucket album. They are now divided into sub-albums by date.

Update October 10:
I have added pics to my photobucket album from storms on the 8'th of October a day where we had 5 thunderstorms in 12 hours. There has been a lot of instability around NE NSW and SE QLD which have spawned some massive storms. On the 9'th Lismore in the Northern Rivers was declared a natural disaster zone after a HP supercell went through the town with tennis ball size hail and strong wind. A number of supercells were also spawned up in SE QLD on this day.

Update September 13:
Unfortunetly I have exceeded my storage limit on this site and can't afford to upgrade it anytime soon so I'll only be adding text to the site for a while and uploading my photos in my photobucket album linked to on the menu.

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Kane Hardie.