As for the coming week - an early April heatwave looks like it might undo the good work of the past 24 hours before a large cutoff low or inland trough comes in from the West... Messy.
BOM are only going for 15mm here in Bendigo. I'm hoping for 25mm+ given the state of our garden/desert. EC thinks as much. Would love to have a repeat of March 5, 2010 (the day before Melbourne's monster hailstorm) when a repeatedly back-building rainband dumped 160mm in parts of town in one day! Wo...
Monsoonal like cloud mass along the QLD-NSW coast today. It certainly made its mark on the Illawarra Escarpment - 297mm at one location (24 hrs to 9am).
Unfortunately it seems to be positioned a little too much to the East for my liking....
Those rain bands in NSW seem to be heading this way? Tomorrows forecast 24c & mostly Sunny for Melbourne? Are they going to slide east and completely miss central areas? Parts of Sydney are certainly copping it today. i.e 57mm in Bankstownn since 12:30pm, a 40 kt Westerly gale at Sydney Airport...
Still not much convergence in each forecast model run. EC starting to stabilize a little (60mm for here would be sensational!), but GFS now throwing in a major downgrade - last 5 model runs had 30mm, 25mm, 20mm, 30mm, now 4mm :? I think it will largely come down to the positioning and depth of the t...
Just a few spots of rain in Bendigo today. Got to 30c at lunchtime, a fair bit cooler now.
Next week is anybody's guess. EC keeps wildly jumping around with each model run - this morning it said <10mm for next week, now it says 50mm. No convergence in the forecasts at all.
Latest EC and GFS are really ramping up the rainfall totals for the middle of next week. Looks like several days of tropical moisture pumping in from the North-east. We could cop bucket-loads or next-to-nothing....
Looks like winds will be too Westerly for much of the metro area to cop any more than 10mm IMO.
On the other hand it looks like the next system on March 21-22 could have quite a deep and cold southerly fetch. (And then the Tasmanian rain shadow effect could be a factor)
Lots of parallels so far between this year so far and early 2013 - Mid-January heatwave, continuing on into Feb (esp inland), early March heat, and then a strong cold front in the middle weekend of March. Perhaps parts of Melbourne might do OK out a bay effect on Sunday since water temps are around ...
We've really been unlucky with the positioning of the MJO in relation to the upper ridge placement this summer. And when the upper ridge broke down with a favorable trough in its place, the MJO nicked off to phase 7 (near Intl Date Line) :( Otherwise I suspect late Feb could've been very wet. Anyway...
Last night was very hit-or-miss North of the Divide. Bendigo itself largely got nothing (again), but some surrounding towns got a downpour. Interesting to see Lalbert cop 36mm, and Kerang 27mm. Might have to wait until Tuesday-Wednesday next week for another chance. At least the temperatures aren't ...
And here are two webcams to watch the action (they look West and North): http://www.newbendigohospital.org.au/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This is basically 1980/1981 all over again Very much so. Still remember that summer even though I was kid. What was even more memorable was the cold and spectacularly snowy winter that followed it. This included the monumental low-level snow outbreak in Northern Vic on June 23 and a >3 metre ski se...