Wild Brisbane Weather - Diversions

[David B.]

Good Evening All,

Very severe storms are currently lashing Brisbane Airport and Brisbane's Bay areas. I understand a number of aircraft have diverted although alas, information is very limited. Can anyone list aircraft/flights that have diverted to other ports? I understand the PX 757 has diverted to an unknown port..

I live not too far West of Brisbane and there's a number of aircraft in a holing pattern above - fuel must be becoming an issue?

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f56/qantasflyer/WX-1.png?t=1227174463

There's more storms forming to my SW, so it appears everyone is in for a long night!

Cheers

PS: have received about 200mm of rain here since 9am yesterday

[Nigel C]

A great night to be indoors! Looks rather nasty.:mad:

[David B.]

QF542 SYD-BNE has diverted to Tamworth (operated by a 737-400) - would have made alot of noise upon landing in a place that is used to seeing Q300/400s :eek:

[Jack B]

Could the runway at Tamworth take a 767?

[Tim Bowrey]

Hey Mr Bindon, that weather radar here (http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml) is nuts. Havent ever seen the black before.

[David B.]

More information seems to be flowing through now...

PX5 POM-BNE diverted to Sydney as did SQ245 SIN-BNE.

Cheers

PS - I'm not David Bindon Mr Bowrey ;)

[Rhys Xanthis]

BRISBANE TERMINAL INFORMATION JULIETT

Approach: EXP INSTRUMENT APCH
Runway: 01
Surface Conditions: RWY WET
Operational Info: POSSIBLE DELAYS DUE Weather AND STAFF SHORTAGES
Wind: 300/8
Visibility: GREATER 10 KM
Weather: TS IN AREA
Cloud: FEW 015. FEW 025
Temperature: 21
QNH: 1005

Looks like 2 problems at BNE tonight!

[phil.l]

9V-SRQ B777 SIA245 on Sydney acars.

[Tim Bowrey]

PS - I'm not David Bindon Mr Bowrey ;)

Haha my bad. Your name is David B, talking about Brissie so i "assumed". Note to self, never assume;) Cheers mate

[Michael Dawson]

Very bad indeed, at it's peak the winds and rain were nearly cyclonic. It has moved out to sea now but there are still aircraft diverting around weather as I type. We have only just had our power restored after a blackout. More storms predicted for Saturday night with more intensity and high winds we are really coping it here.

Regards

Michael Dawson

[David B.]

Second round of storms are lingering in the vicinity of BNE.

Summary of the known diversions:

QF2426 DH3 NTL-OAK-BNE
SQ245 772 SIN-SYD-BNE
PX5 752 POM-SYD-BNE
QF542 734 SYD-TMW-BNE
QF632 73H MEL-MCY-BNE

Feel sorry for passengers aboard QF2426 NTL-BNE. The Dash 8-300 is still at Oakey Airport waiting to depart. This flight was due to arrive in Brisbane at 17:45L and won't arrive until at least 22:30 :eek:

Cheers

[Chris W]

These were the storms from last night:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/3042862381_566d63e49a_o.jpg

Any of you Queenslanders know of the extent of the damage caused by tonight's storms? They look far far worse than anything previously according to the radar!

[Rhys Xanthis]

40,000 homes without power according to news.com.au

EDIT: Down to ~12,000 now from energex.com.au

[Montague S]

here you go Chris.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/21/2425674.htm

[lloyd fox]

Brisbane airport has been very lucky in the 4 nights of storms.Last night was the first night it was affected.Where i live in the NW suburbs of Brisbane we have had 3 terrible nights of flooding and cyclonic winds .Already 280 mm of rain however i had to guess Sundays figures as the rain gauge blew away.

Winds on Sunday were estimated at 130-140km/hr

Cheers Lloyd

[Mick F]

40,000 homes without power isn't much compared to what they had on Sunday.

There is good news out of this though. The dams are getting a pretty healthy stock up, :).

Mick

[Raymond Rowe]

Welcome to Queensland Raining one day flooded the next.Herd that the lightining in BNE was really bad and very thick lightning bolts.