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Rain ....... Would be nice to see. Lightning could be a disaster, everything is so dry, even the native trees are struggling, 2 months ago the gums started shedding leaves more than normal, and now it seems they knew more than us. I have never had to regularly water the citrus trees, even during the...

We got 20 mm in about 20 mins somewhere just before dark maybee 6-630, didn't take a whole lot of notice at the time, the lady of the house just came home and said dirt road is destroyed, all on the nth side of the road will need to get out their shovels and remove 2-3 feet of crushed rock road base...

August 132.5 mm
YTD 705.75 mm

Oops late.

Time for my monthly post.....

July 91.0 mm
YTD 573.5

Way behind last years totals so far.

Despite the nice weather winter is still here... ( better than londons summer though :D ) Magnolias are starting to flower, just in time for the seasonal winds to blow through and strip it back to the bone, it happens every year. We've got two large flowering cherries, they haven't even budded up ye...

Only 8.5 mm for the event so far up in the yarra valley, cant say I'm disappointed, anything over 25 mm causes flooding up here as the ground is saturated. If anyone has an idea of which day will give good wind but less rain for Friday Saturday, ive promised to take someone out kite flying before th...

Looking at this mornings radar, it's arriving early...... This morning

Light drizzle in the upper yarra, paddocks around launching place and wooriyallock are somewhat flooded, although roads are OK, had the channel 7 helicopter doing footage for the news last night, but waters have moved downstream with the worst of it. Donna buang and toolbewong have disappeared into ...

Another month.........

Saw moderate flooding in the upper yarra valley around the 21/22, waiting to see if today's event brings the 4-8 mm predicted by the BOM or the 50mm forecast here

June 117.5 mm
YTD 482.5 mm


Edit.... Map doesn't show my April figures of 79.5 mm.

Yet another month gone by, a couple interesting events gave us reasonable totals, in fact wettest may in the 9 years since we moved here.

May 115.5 mm
YTD 365.0 mm

Ive been watching this thread for a while, expecting the BOM to say something, given the excitement about this event.... And yet not a blip other than areas of rain ( as though it's just another wet day) will be most interested to see how this pans out. Would like a little more detail about how the ...

Mostly a lurker here, but I do regularly check the discussion that goes on as I find it way more informative than the BOM, Looking at the radar, I can't see their prediction of 2-6 mm being of much value. Living in the upper yarra valley, the weather does not have a huge amount in common with a metr...

Sorry it's late

March 69.75 mm
YTD 170 mm

Rain for feb 65.0 mm. YTD 100.25 mm

January 2012 plus YTD 35.25 mm

Oops almost forgot with the holidays and all...

December 106.25 mm
Yearly total 1339.0 mm

Best in last 10 years !!!

Sitting on the deck, looking due west, can see lightning way off in the distance, hope it gets this far, always looks more impressive at night.

It seems like ground hog day, every weekend has become a rain event, particularly as I have been planning a weekend away with my girl, and I have to keep canceling.
I'd love you all to say, nup it's not going to happen but ..........
Watching with interest.

Sorry I'm late

November 167.25
Ytd. 1232.75

The la Nina pattern from last year is continuing,heat waves in Perth , downpours here. It is also green here, usually the grass heads up around cup weekend then browns off, the ride on mower is getting a workout here every week still. As for rainfall totals, a new record if we get over 50 mm , will ...