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Aurora is sensational this evening.

Also worth noting a G4 geomagnetic storm hit us this morning. Hopefully the cloud clears for tonight.
https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Aurora

Quite wet overnight. 15mm at Bendigo AWS, although I haven't checked our gauge yet.

Bit of a fail here. Just 5mm yesterday and nothing today.

Light rain is falling here now. A rather chilly 14c too.

A good chance of around 15mm here tonight and tomorrow. Quite mild and humid this morning. Something might break...

EC is pretty optimistic for a 30mm+ downpour here in Friday from the North. Something to picque my interest for the first time in a while.

1043 HPa High in the Bight atm. Is that a record? Must be close to it.

50mm for us in April (nearly all on April 1), and below average Min and Max temps including 3 frosts.

It does feel like 2008 tbh.

4mm this morning from the Southeast. Quite rare for here.

37mm in the gauge. Decent autumn break!

Pouring rain here now. About 20mm so far. Reports of significant rain at Castlemaine starting to cause some issues.

Supercellimpact wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:34 pm

StratoBendigo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:28 pm Just had a couple of downpours. 8mm this far. Bendigo AWS is a rain repellent - nothing there yet.

The gauge broken? It’s been raining hard for the past hour and it’s recorded nothing

Yes, gauge is faulty. They'll probably have to fall back on manual backup gauge if there's one.

Just had a couple of downpours. 8mm this far. Bendigo AWS is a rain repellent - nothing there yet.

Officially the driest March in Bendigo. 0.0mm. Although we have had rainless months in the past, especially Feb and even May.

No rain today as yet. Some showers out West, but it hasn't really kicked off. Waiting.

Really seeing some good rain totals across 90% of the forecast models now.

We managed 4mm on Tuesday. A very dry March. And nothing on the horizon either.

3.1c this morning. Coldest March minimum since the 2.3c we had on 30/3/2008.

Starting to see some hints of rain this time next week, along with temps cooling down a lot.

New ECMWF AIFS forecast is now available. Goes out to 360 hours.

I very much seeing strong parallels with March 2016 - both in terms of sea-surface temperatures and a transition from El-Nino to LaNina.

We had a spectacular heatwave in early March that year (3x 39c days in a row, and 8 days in a row over 35c), before things cooled off.

The long weekend looks horrible in Northern Vic. Disgusting heat is likely.

On a brighter note - looks quite a bit cooler from March 12th onwards.

80 km/h winds out West. Still a long way to go...