the shaft…

Check out this impressive rain/hail shaft in the Archies Creek vicinity in South Gippsland yesterday afternoon. This clearly evident core was under the third of a number of storms for the afternoon as you can see the atmosphere was still extremely unstable.

‘ the shaft ‘

~ by Tony Middleton on February 17, 2011.

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22 Responses to “the shaft…”

That is insane Tony.. Sweet capture. Love the “beams” of light as well as the column of rain.

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Jeremy Calow said this on February 17, 2011 at 9:59 am | Reply
- thanks Jeremy ! It was pretty cool to watch… Part of me wanted to go punch into it to see how heavy/much hail there was etc but then I couldn’t photograph it, so I chose the latter this time. 🙂
  cheers,
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 2:39 pm | Reply
Awesome mate. Unbelievable even.

We copped another 70odd mm last night. Probably crack 300 for the month

Andrew Brown said this on February 17, 2011 at 11:15 am | Reply
- Thanks AB – yeah I saw Olinda scored 68 and though you guys would have been in that ball park as well – amazing !
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 2:40 pm | Reply
Great storm capture Tony, like all of them!

islandimages said this on February 17, 2011 at 11:32 am | Reply
- Thanks Tim – great to read you appreciate them mate 🙂
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 2:41 pm | Reply
Impressive Tone!

True North Mark said this on February 17, 2011 at 12:10 pm | Reply
- Cheers buddy ! 🙂
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 2:41 pm | Reply
You should have made this very large–it’s very impressive.

thepetalpusher said this on February 17, 2011 at 12:33 pm | Reply
- Thanks Petalpusher – this is just a small version for the web, the full size file can be printed at 60″ or so. 🙂
  
  cheers,
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 2:46 pm | Reply
That is cool!!! Gotta love storms!

Flemming Bo Jensen said this on February 17, 2011 at 12:51 pm | Reply
- hey FlemBot – yeah the power of nature is not only amazing but humbling 🙂
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 2:42 pm | Reply
Holy moly mate! Looks like a waterfall from the sky. Nice work!

Ben Messina said this on February 17, 2011 at 6:12 pm | Reply
- I’m guessing it was pretty much that Ben, from what I’ve heard from someone in the approximate area they had rainfall rates like they have never seen before at their property 🙂
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 7:42 pm | Reply
i would NOT like to be standing in it’s path ..
that’s incredible

Chloe said this on February 17, 2011 at 7:05 pm | Reply
- thanks Chloe – I would 🙂
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 7:43 pm | Reply
Now that’s a storm Tone! Would that be hail? What an incredible summer Australia is experiencing!

davidbettini said this on February 17, 2011 at 7:31 pm | Reply
- G’day Dave – I haven’t been able to find out about hail in it, but it certainly looks likely ! 🙂 It certainly has been and it looks like your turn over there over the next week for some decent totals ! 🙂
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 7:44 pm | Reply
  - Yea I know mate. My parents have a sheep station near Carnarvon which was flooded in December. Looks like it might be about to happen again!!!
    
    davidbettini said this on February 17, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Very true Dave – depeneing on TC Dianne’s final track they could be looking at anything from 100-300mm in the region, last thing they want at this stage I’d imagine.
best of luck,
tone 🙂

Tony Middleton said this on February 17, 2011 at 8:57 pm | Reply
Holy F#$K Tony that look awesome, great work as always.

Casey Smith said this on February 18, 2011 at 4:09 pm | Reply
- Hey Casey – It’s great to ‘see’ you back here mate, thanks 🙂
  
  Tony Middleton said this on February 19, 2011 at 8:13 am | Reply