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Rain started here late, about 9:30 pm and it poured though the night heavy at times.

Gauge showing 38mm so upper end of model’s predictions. April now sitting just above 100mm which is brilliant!

65 mm from 28 hours of literally non stop rain. Highest two day total since early Spring

Hasn't stopped here since 6am. Steady, moderate rain no wind and nudging 30mm. Dust has turned to mud.

Good to have something solid in the wings. OCF ensemble gives us 40mm Mon to Wed at this stage.

Dryer here than at any point during summer.

45mm here and just lightening of now. 60mm plus for the dates.

This will green us up now and you'd have to think, put an end to bushfire potential for the season in many areas.

31/20 here lots of developing Cu

Brilliant reading everyone's totals. Finished with 55mm for the thread and close to 100mm for the MTD! Not a bad January at all.

Interesting to watch lovely pulse storms last hour between Benalla and Whitfield. Stunning clear air viewing from here to our NE with crawlers and plenty of cg's on offer.

38mm this evening in scarily intense rain at times. Sooo tropical now. Loving it.

Mike wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:26 pm Checkout Edenhope and Horsham obs.

27/19 and heaps of sun here

DP's hit 30c at Edenhope this arvo? Surely not.

27/19c here. Beautiful evening after 10mm so far for the thread. Keep the reports coming! Big night and day ahead!

Interesting afternoon coming up. As well as decent totals showing up on some of the models, an hour ago, BOM tweeted a 'Severe Thunderstorms possible' chart covering much of Victoria. Over the last two afternoons, I've watched showers and thunderstorms form up nearby, though we've completely missed...

Beautiful shots Peng and Didj! Inner Melb missed this one largely seems. Looked like those nocturnal storms may deliver rain but not to be. Light show over the bay was pretty spectacular for awhile looking north and south with a few stunning crawlers observed. Looking positive for yet another period...

Direct hit, black core which evolved into back building red for 30 minutes. 41mm rain in 30 minutes, everything is flooded, large intermittent hail huge flangs. Went for a walk and Monbulk creek is flooded, amazing to see :D Very nice entertainment! Big totals. Glad for you to have it, keeps my hil...

A few spots here in Ringwood - is that it? Everything so dry - one of the driest summers I can remember so far. We've had 28mm since the 16th of November. It’s not over yet for Melbourne. The trough is still sitting a few hundred kilometres to Melbourne’s west. As long as the trough is west of us, ...

Models diverge on chance of storms late tonight - for Melbourne a few show some instability creeping in, others show marginal or none. Most agree with two apparent peaks in instability tomorrow though - one in the morning and the other in the afternoon/evening. BOM forecast tends to indicate they d...

Moist south easterlies really ramped up here now along with dew point, currently 17.5c with 74% rh.

Feel like we might be in a sweet spot here next few days.

Yeah it's going to be a heat shock for many after this cool spring and start to summer. La Nīna, where have you gone? Melbourne is really drying out on the surface. Northern tropics looking wet now so hopefully some of that moisture makes it way south in the coming weeks. The 2011 event really rampe...

We were in the right place yesterday morning with just under 40mm, 30 mm of that in 30 mins

Massive contrast in vegetation dryness travelling from Wedderburn to Mansfield yesterday - from white to green.

Just very high-based cells with rain if you happen to be right under a very small downdraft. Very 'meh'. A few active cells in the clear air out West, but even they're looking rather mediocre. Geez, you're hard to please! Best storm day of the Spring for much of Vic I'd say. Particularly central/no...

Update: 34mm in less than an hour here. Rapid development about 3:30pm with significant rain rates at peak. May have been on a wind convergence line.

Still moderate rain. Feels very La Niña just like in 2011.

Dark sky and rumbles earlier have given way to moderate rain here which is intensifying significantly