GAVIN MORRIS WEATHER UPDATE: MORE VALUABLE RAIN
The Hunter has finally received a nice drink. The Hunter Valley has experienced an extremely dry Spring accumulating less than 40mm for most. The region only picked up small numbers from last weeks rain event but this one has flowed nicely down the Valley. Showers and storms have been developing ahead of the rain band band in the north across the NW, Tablelands and Mid North Coast. The system will continue to produce rain across a large percentage of the broadcast area a beautiful follow up event to last weeks rain but once again the timing isn’t great coming down across the weekend.
The SE winds will freshen across the weekend keeping temperatures down while producing choppy seas but there won’t much of an increase in the swell so it will be a messy weekend for surfers and boaties.
For the NW Plains, Hunter and southern parts of the MNC the rain and the showers will break up. It will remain wet and overcast for most of the weekend in the north with severe storms set to develop during Saturday.
Hi Gavin,
As the Unit Commander of MR Terrigal I take a keen interest in what the weather and sea is doing. I eagerly await your report during the NBN news and find it most helpful so that I can anticipate what may eventuate in relation to the sea state.
I notice the BOM “interactive weather & wave” forecast is predicting a low pressure forming around the Qld. border on Monday.
I suspect this could cause some large E / NE swells to be generated in the Hunter region.
Our rescue vessel “Marygeorge” is on a swing mooring @ The Haven, Terrigal and we are vulnerable under these conditions.
If this is going to be the scenario I will pull MG out of the water on the high tide, Sunday 30/6/13.
Any feedback you could provide in relation to this or future events would be most welcome.
Kind Regards
Deane Scadding
Unit Commander
MR Terrigal
Mob. 0418 433 747