The nav screen still has that clunky look and the automatic gear selector arcs through a long throw before arriving at drive. Manoeuvring the VXR out of Holden’s Salmon Street facility, it was clear that despite being built in Russelsheim by Opel, there’s a superficial continuity of General Motors look and feel. From there they’d arrow north-west and end up in the kiln-red earth out the back of Bourke, retracing a classic Wheels test route.
#Should pommie bring back the dreadlocks full#
Pick up two Holden Commodores and subject them to the full gamut of Aussie conditions by driving them the long way from Melbourne to Sydney via the high country. PART ONE: ANDY ENRIGHT PORT MELBOURNE to MOUNT BEAUTY, 433KM Now these German-built imports looked as if they were about to be written off. We’d only picked up the pair of Holden Commodores a few hours earlier from Holden’s HQ in Port Melbourne. Sheet lightning strobed crazily somewhere above the battered canopy, as another fusillade of hail filled the windscreen with white. With visibility reduced to zero, all photographer Dewar and I could do was sit in the forest and flinch as the full fury of the summer storm battered Falls Creek. Sharp skeins of hail tracked up the mountainside on the wind like wraiths in the headlights, before slashing at the two cars.Īs the ice tattooed the sheetmetal, I reached overhead to slam the sunroof shade closed certain that the glass was about to smash. The impending heatwave, although impressive, is not forecast to break all time records, although might give the Tindal ones a nudge.The forest was pulverised, the road covered in debris. Tindal had a brutal November in 2006 ( 39.6 av ) and 2009 ( 39.1 av )ĭigi records missing a day or so but in 2006 11 days exceeded 40c and 7 days exceeded 40c in 2009Īs an aside, over the years the media, when looking at temp records both max and min in Katherine, generally don't dig into the other town sites and love to spruik a 'new' record for the town. but there have been warmer Novembers than that in the undigitised records ( 1937,1946, 1948, 19 )ġ959 had 13 consecutive days over 40c and 14 for the month ! These records are digitised from 1957 until the site's closure in 1985 when the Official Site moved to Tindal.ġ962 was a stand out hot November with 3 consecutive days exceeding 45c, the all time record for any month ( 45.6c ) occurring on the 14th.Ħ consecutive days exceeded 40c, and 9 days exceeded 40c that November. Katherine has had a few 'official' BOM sites over the years.the one with the longest span of records is at Katherine Council which has records dating back to 1937. well there is the monthly average ?Ī Top End heatwave is expected to intensify by the weekend with Katherine ( the Tindal RAAF site ) expected to approach November record maximums of 43c. mind you one storm that lands in a gauge. So if we are to believe the BOM Outlook, we could be in for a 5% Percentile monthy total in the Darwin region. The Rural stations get substantially more extreme monthly rain fall totals in excess of 100mm, but this is offset in the figures with far more 'dry' Octobers of less than 10mm. Seriously but, the totals across the region on average are pretty close. So what does it mean ? Buggered if I know, but confirms my 40 years of observations/suspicions thatĪ/- Berrimah and the 11 mile gets more and better storms than Leanyer. Some quick figures for Oct from various parts of the Town and Rural Areas going back to around 1990. do the rainfall stats actually back this up ?
That invisible storm killer that dissipates storms before our very eyes as we watch them collapse or head off toward East Arm or Shoal Bay.īut. OCT 2019 is shaping up as an ordinary month storm and rainfall wise and the Outlook published by the BOM doesn't look real good.Īll weather fanatics who live in Darwin believe in the 'Force Field' that surrounds the Northern 'Burbs.
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