VIC - Strong fronts and possible low: May 7-12 2019

[hillybilly]

Alright alright !
I get it !
Where is the damn rain
Only had 68mm ytd

Jeepers that’s bad About 250mm here (which is lousy but...).

Winds getting gusty here as the first rain drops are starting to mix down. Max of 10.3C, so pretty wintery day.

[Timster]

Raining steadily here in Scarsdale since around 6pm. 12mm so far, and looking like quite a bit more over the next few hours. Good, steady, soaking rain. Just what we need

[Sean]

Alright alright !
I get it !
Where is the damn rain
Only had 68mm ytd

Let it out! Lol

[Skywalker]

Was just looking at the radar & checking out the Access C chart Jasmine posted earlier. Absolutely spot on!
Can't get over how slow it's all moving. Certainly going to be some great totals out west.

The whinging is annoying. Particularly from those who live in historically dry parts of the state, or who live in a rain shadow that’s been there for tens of thousands of years complaining a rainband or line of storms missed them. Well duh, if you don’t like it then move out of the rain shadow or go chasing!

Obviously a comment directed at someone like myself from which I will choose to completely ignore.

First drops just starting to fall here.

[snowfall]

First drops starting here too. The wind has died now as well. Haven’t looked at the rainfall totals further west, but judging by the radar, it must be adding up nicely with the rainband almost stationary out there.

[Wilko]

Alright alright !
I get it !
Where is the damn rain
Only had 68mm ytd

Let it out! Lol

All good
I mean bad
Just started.here
We need 30mm to crack the ton for Ytd

[Sean]

Alright alright !
I get it !
Where is the damn rain
Only had 68mm ytd

Let it out! Lol

All good
I mean bad
Just started.here
We need 30mm to crack the ton for Ytd

30mm isn't out of the question. BOM has added "possible heavy falls" to the forecast. Some great totals already building..

First drops are falling here, so I'm growing confident of receiving something decent (decent being 15mm+).

Mildruans must be ecstatic. 27mm earlier this month, 15mm so far tonight.. I think the 'autumn break' is official.

[stevco123]

Looks like the type of rainband that either dissipates before it gets here to the east, or quickly passes through.

Looking like 10mm down here, if we're lucky

[Adam38]

Ahhhh...sounds so nice on my metal roof, I find it very relaxing.

[StratoBendigo]

So just 5mm at the local AWS in round 1. Is that it?

Looks like all the forecast models may have got it terribly wrong again if round 2 doesn't deliver.

[JasmineStorm]

15mm so far, ticking along nicely. Totals are getting juicy in the SW and parts of central Upper low is starting to circulate north of here, surface low should follow and intensify the squeeze zone. Should get quite heavy in a few hours.

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Ahh, it's landing on my new Colorbond roof,
Ahhh I can't hear it we filled it with so much insulation,
Ahh. But fire didn't go out its dry inside and 17c
Ahhh Let. It rain. 0.8mm so far.
Love seeing the Western West getting rain in mt William on 37.

[tonycynic]

The Doppler looks amazing, really showing the rotation. Some good totals out west and going to be a wet morning in the city. Lousy day to be a truck driver but I will cope, at least we have rain. Be safe out there people.

[stevco123]

2mm here so far. Doesn't look promising for more

[hillybilly]

Painfully slow system, which is favouring northern parts of central as expected. 4mm here so far. Still expect about an inch here. Clocking up nicely in west central through north central which is long over due.

Also, a final autumn break for parts of the west. Locals in Mildura will be confused with the second proper rain day for the month, after the virtually rainfree January to April

Don’t like the progs for next week. Big highs again

[StratoBendigo]

The whole thing has stalled. I doubt we'll get anything more. Great out West but a big fizzer here.

[Didjman]

13.8mm in Wallan overnight. On radar loop, the low seems to be centred between Sunbury and Wallan atm

[Tassiedave]

Rain last 24 hrs: Pine Tree Rivulet 84mm, Sheffield 33mm, Deloraine 27mm, Mt Barrow 22mm, Launceston 5mm, Devonport 3mm, Hobart 0.6mm

[93ben]

It seems like it's sticking to the west of Melbourne and doesn't want to move.

[Gordon]

Amazing rain here, we've hit 30mm and still teeming down. Brings us to 110mm mtd and we're one of the 'drier' stations locally; looking at the radar rainfall totals, some of my neighbours have got more overnight and they had more to begin with, so there will be places nearby which will hit 150mm mtd today; heading towards double the monthly average for May and it's only the 10th!

Btw I can't make any sense of the way the rainband is behaving - went to bed and streaming down from NNW, wake up it's coming from SSE and basically hasn't moved. Hope it moves east soon - we've had our share.