SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS - OCTOBER 24, 1999

Showers and Thunderstorms developed accross most of SE QLD throughout the day, and during the evening in eastern parts.  Some of these storms were quite spectacular, with boiling updrafts, cumuliform anvils, fantastic flanking lines and hail.  A wind gust of 85km/h was also recorded at Southport Seaway.  I personally took over 2 rolls of film on this day, and many other people in Brisbane took photos.

Late evening a line of storms developed from off the coast of Brisbane, NW to the sunshine coast, and then inland to the Gympie area.  Storms on the northern end of the line were highly electrical at first, with the storms on the southern end of the line becoming equally electrical later in the evening.   It was a truly spectacular night, with overshoots and boiling updrafts being lit up by very bright anvil crawlers and in cloud lightning.