Here and there bits were actually melted off. In no time at all Nick had his drone in the air to capture the scene, while simultaneously snapping away on his camera. After three years of drought, here in plain sight was evidence of how bone dry the land had become.ĭust storms like these can pick up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of valuable topsoil, cause dreadful respiratory problems, even spread bacterial disease, and it was just the frontal wave of what was still to come – rain, wind, lightning, perhaps even hail. A wave of desiccated ochre seemed to fill half the sky. The scale was apocalyptic, like the dastardly work of a Marvel supervillain. I couldn’t tell you how tall the storm was, or how wide. Nick turned down a winding rural road, pulled over and there it was. It was clear we wouldn’t make it to West Wyalong, the weather was moving a lot faster than we were. Anemometer height: 10 m above site elevation. Air temp height: 2.7 m above site elevation.
A firefighter, a truck, a house…”Ĭraig had downloaded a range of weather-chaser apps and from the look of them, Nick had been right to hurry us. Owned and maintained by National Weather Service Central Region. When you’re shooting them you need to put something in the frame to give it scale. “The size of the bushfires is hard to grasp. (Weather station: Big Bear City Airport, USA). He is the son of iconic cartoonist Alan Moir. Weather Today Weather Hourly 14 Day Forecast Yesterday/Past Weather Climate (Averages) Currently: 48 ☏. Nick is all curly salt and pepper hair and darting enthusiasm, and it was infectious. Sunday afternoon we were on the road to team up with one of the country’s most lauded and awarded photojournalists. He was on his way to Orange – did we want to join him? Now, Nick was looking at weather models that predicted massive storm activity in Central Western NSW, most likely kicking off early Monday morning. In the video, a local newscaster in Colchester, Vermont broadcast a clip from their weather camera at fiveam.that morning that resulted in a ton of calls to the station when viewers noticed a large, oblong, disc-shaped object rising horizontally through the sky. Across the ‘Black Summer’ of 2019/2020 Nick’s terrifying bushfire shots had shocked the whole world.īut the bloke also had 20 years’ experience as an international storm chaser, a passion which had seen him chase the worst storms imaginable across the United States. “SUBJECT: Moir Predicts Storms in Central West NSW”Ĭelebrated photojournalist Nick Moir had just contacted the production team of Big Weather. Nicholas Searle, story producer of Big Weather (and how to survive it), joins international storm chaser and photographer Nick Moir in the hunt.
Behind the scenes of a major storm event is extreme.
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