Strange 'S'-shaped radar phenomenon appears off W[estern]A[ustralia] coast

ABC ^ | Thu 13 Feb 2014, 8:15pm AEDT

[BenLurkin]

The shape was spotted on the weather bureau's radar map on Wednesday about 30 kilometres west of Rottnest.

After checking the satellite, the bureau's Neil Bennett ruled out the phenomenon being caused by cloud.

"There's no cloud, there's nothing to produce a rain echo, ... which we do see a lot, but not this particular shape," he said.

"They don't take on S shapes and things like that.

[BenLurkin]

Do any FR radar experts seen this kind of thing before?

A screenshot of a Bureau of Meteorology map showing a strange S-shaped formation off the coast of Western Australia on February 12, 2014. (ABC News)

[Darksheare]

That is real weird, it isn’t my fault, and I can only hazard a guess that checking local air currents, pressure, and particulate matter would give them any hints as to what they were seeing.

[Salamander]

SNEK!!!

[Salamander]

Well, Nessie went missing.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[The Cajun]

SNEK!!!

Big, big-big SNEK!!!
LOL!

[TigersEye]

LOL Bet you just did a head count on the fambly.

[Darksheare]

Classic Chinese dragon!

[Army Air Corps]

What in the Sam Hill?

[Army Air Corps]

It’s a sine!

[The Cajun]

Kind of odd that there's a place called Serpentine just to the right of the cross hairs on the map.............Just saying.

[Salamander]

Friggin’ huge snek!

Maybe Titanoboa!

:-O

[Berlin_Freeper]

S(atan)

[TigersEye]

I saw that too. We need to hack the NSA servers and cross-reference all smart asses living in Serpentine. That will narrow things down.

[Salamander]

I only checked to see if Bob T Boa was still here.

Everybody else is fairly “normal” sized.

:D

[Salamander]

Damn Chinese got their paws in everything.

[TigersEye]

I knew it. Automatic snek mommy reflecks. ;-)

[Salamander]

LMAO!!!

Good ‘un.

[Salamander]

Oh. My. God.

[Salamander]

After that 3 week wandering snekscapade, you betcha!