Aboredomist

CbR – CB Radio 

Cb or CbCb – Thunderstorm 

(TDU 2000)

3) Uh Oh as in “Uh Oh, is that base above us rotating?” 

(AC)

Tigh – Tasman High 

Bigh – Great Australian Bight High 

(Clyve Herbert, AC, Jane ONeill)

M - Pothole in the middle 

lalalalala - Potholes everywhere!!!(if you say LRLRLRLRLRLRLRLR really quickly it sounds like lalalala) 

Grading of roads: 

F0 - Perfect road, often freeways 

F1 - Good road, sometimes freeways or main road - minor bumps 

F2 - Ok road, a couple of potholes, minor bumps - occasional large bump 

F3 - Poor road or good dirt road, lots of potholes and quite bumpy, occasional big pothole, potential for minor damage to suspension and steering rack.CD player may experience occasional skips due to the bumps 

F4 - Bad road, potholes everywhere, large bumps sometimes cliff-like, cliffs and potholes may do damage to suspension and steering rack.CD player skips intermittently, mirrors may be knocked out of their position and will require re-adjustments.Luggage in the back will be shifted a little, not advisable to open a can of soft drink unless you want a shower. 

F5 - Horrendous road, sections missing - large frequent potholes and cliff-like bumps.Suspension and steering rack damage and high wear and tear likely.CD player no longer works, luggage in the back may decide to join you in the front.Mirrors are continually bumped out of their position.Portable CD players get bumped onto the floor, CB radios disconnected, equipment may lose power source.

Quidge – Queensland ridge (normally along the coast, this does not apply to the Coral Sea ridge) 

Sidge – Strengthening ridge 

Nidge – NSW ridge (normally along the coast, this does not apply to the Tasman Sea ridge) 

Fidge - #$%! Ridge 

(Clyve Herbert, AC, Jane ONeill)

Non-weather related: 

Ridge (when used while on the road) – Police car 

(AC)

Storm Deprivation Syndrome – You have no storms, let alone a supercell!It is at this stage when things start getting serious. 

Summer Deprivation Syndrome – You don’t have summer, let alone storms – and what’s a supercell again?You commence abnormal behaviour after this (if chasing after storms isn’t abnormal enough!)Such as throwing ice on the roof to imitate hail and flooding your back yard with the hose. 

Spormer Deprivation Syndrome – Spormer is the 5^th season that occurs from October 1 to January 31, it is derived from Spring + storms + Summer.This is when not only do you get storms that develop in the Spormer Season (ie supercells), but you don’t get storms, you don’t get spring, and summer has disappeared off the face of the Earth, never to be found again until next year!During Spormer Deprivation Syndrome, you get excited over a 5000ft Cu, or a puddle that forms during a moderate shower, or that little white speck on the sat pic that could be a 20,000ft storm 600km away to your SW that could intensify as it reaches your +10 LI environment, or that coastal Cb 200km out to sea that could intensify into such a left moving supercell it’ll actually move towards the coast! 

(Original SDS came from the US, but the derivations of it came from AC) 

-High amounts of precipitation (ranging from 2mm to 500mm in an hour with no radar echoes overhead) 

-Strong wind gusts in excess of 100km/h from cloudless and pressure-gradientless atmosphere 

-Causes any sort of tree or building damage, while not a cloud on sat pic 

-METAR reports a funnel or tornado when DPs are -20C, and 850 LIs are +20C 

Radar indicates 40mm/hr or higher on radar, with not a cloud in the sky in that area.(AC)

(Clyve Herbert)