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There was always some sort of hope for a storm or two today as a trough was expected to move through sometime around midday. It wasn't the greatest of timing but with warm temps and a bit of instability first thing in the morning there was always a chance. In the end it was a good successful chase and considering it was my first storm since January, I came home pretty happy!!

Late in the morning there were a few isolated storms on nth Eyre peninsula and near KI and Yorke Peninsula. A few rumbles were heard down at McLaren Vale from the sth storms, as the trough approached. As it did, more convective development did start to appear nearer the city and also cells started to pop up on the radar on Eyre Peninsula and start to move across the gulfs...

I decided not to waste this possible storm opportunity, so I packed up and started to head up Pt Wakefield Rd.

A few rain shafts started to appear nearby, but the bigger cells were further north so I pressed on, but they were moving quite fast so that by the time I reached Pt Wakefield, the main cells were already to my NE. By now I was getting a lot of static activity on the radio and had already seen 2 Cgs to my immediate east.

I headed east towards Balaklava where I basically caught up with the storms. I stopped just NE of town to get a few shots before pressing on NE towards Blyth.

The majority of the cells were really starting to head too far away but a couple of smaller storms did continue to put the occasional bolt out. I got onto the Clare road from Blyth, and noticed an interesting development to back to my NW.

I got to Clare and had another look back at the development and sure enough it was starting to form a rain shaft, and I was getting confident this was soon going to put out some lightning.

Sure enough, a few minutes later the first rumble of thunder was heard. The storm quickly moved past just to the north of Clare, producing quite a few CG's, but mainly CC's.

Meanwhile, a very impressive field of Accas was evident to the south and west, but this quickly dissipated as the wind change moved up from the coast. It was then time to head home.
		Clare storm 2.52pm	MSL 4pm


Some impressive cloud formation/mammatus	Initial convective development near city	Radar 12.12pm	Satpic 11.30am


Balaklava storm 1.22pm	2.12pm	2.22pm storms to my NE and E	Lightning tracker 2.30pm


Lightning map	CAPE & LI's forecast