New Years Week: becoming hot and humid with possible storms

[Dc449]

Gotta be careful of Landslides in those areas i hear!... Something else developing near gisborne?

[droughtbreaker]

Mansfield next in line to get smashed. Could be some serious hail in that also. Southerlies have pushed right through west central now which would indicate the trough is through.

[I_Love_Storms]

SES flooded with calls as storm batters Vic

Posted 12 minutes ago

Victoria's State Emergency Service (SES) has received more than 100 calls for help as storms cause flash flooding north of Melbourne.

Gisborne and Alexandra were hit with heavy rain leaving homes and businesses inundated.

SES duty officer Tim Wiebusch said more than 100 calls had been received in the hour to 10:30pm (AEDT).

"We've seen flash flooding in quite significant proportions," he said.

"There's been over 72mm of rain around Gisborne and another 40-odd mils around Alexandra.

"There's been reports of ankle-deep water at Gisborne through houses, and at Alexandra we've got a report at the moment of three inches of water going through the commercial hotel and knee-deep water in some houses."

The SES has received more than 500 requests for assistance in the past 36 hours after a New Year's Eve storm unleashed damaging winds across Melbourne.

Friday's storm front is expected to move south to Melbourne's north and north-eastern fringe areas, hitting suburbs including Greensborough, Croydon and Ringwood.

"[It's] quite a change from last night's storm," Mr Wiebusch said.

"Last night's storm was largely a wind event, whereas tonight we're seeing places being inundated with heavy rainfall."

Earlier this evening the weather bureau issued severe thunderstorm warnings for large parts of Victoria and the south-western corner of New South Wales, saying people in affected areas should secure loose objects and stay indoors.

In Victoria the bureau says Melbourne, Mildura, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton, Seymour and Maryborough may be affected by damaging winds, heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones.

In New South Wales the bureau has issued a warning for flash flooding, severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and heavy rainfall, with areas likely to be affected including Deniliquin, Hay, Wilcannia, Wentworth, Menindee and Balranald.

The storms are expected to last for several hours.

- ABC/AAP



http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... ion=justin

[Instability]

Been so busy processing photos from tonight that I missed a great opportunity to get some "brain" and anvil shots from the cells that crossed Geelong and the bay. Unfortunately by the time I got the camera set up the damn lower cloud layer had moved in the way. Got some ok crawler photos that I wil upload later.

Rog.

[dagget]

Well we had decent rain but it must have intensified somewhat going down the mountain, mate of mine is in Gisborne and just had watertanks put in..only problem not connected to the gutters yet

[AUS_Twisted]

I just got back from a Berwick lookout, saw a heap of pulsing CC's directly overhead, some CG's in the distance and crawlers around (ones that were viewable from within the low cloud anyway) also saw some fireworks going off around the place and a flare. From there it was crap for any photos, was also some light annoying rain around aswell

[droughtbreaker]

Check out 512km Melbourne radar mosaic.

Looks like there could be more on the way with rapid development in the southern Mallee. and heading further south.

[rikjpool]

Ok heres some pics... Explosive updraughts....


Another solid Updraugh with a wall cloud and small funnel.


A different cell with the same features.

[rikjpool]

And some lightning shots from it all as it moved away. I've been waiting for shots like these for a couple of years now.

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Rest of photo's can be found on my Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 ... =751365978

:jumpingmany: :partymany:

[I_Love_Storms]

Awesome pics!!! What mammoths!!! And amazing with the moon as well, terrific!

Andrew, it does look that way...definitely not slowing down, tonight has been a ripper, maybe not over yet!

[Dc449]

Thudner from a cell that just developed

[AUSSKY]

Brilliant shots!! A brilliant day!! I've got pics uploading atm...will post tomorrow.

32.8mm for the start of the new year - no complaints here!

Btw, Yokohama tyres on the Subaru have done 127,000kms and handled superbly in the wet today!!!!

[rikjpool]

And there's more coming! We may actually get a direct hit here in an hour... to head out or not?! Have to drive to ST Leonards in the morning...

[Dc449]

Very heavy drops here, no lightning
Edit: Heavy Downpour, no lightning though

[dagget]

Unbelievable, it it still happening here, more thunder and a little more rain...

[AUS_Twisted]

Got some thunder not to far from here now

[James]

just heard some more thunder here

[Instability]

I've just had another heavy shower come through Burwood. The air feels quite heavy with moisture so don't think this will be the last of these showers.

Here are some photos from earlier in the evening:

Nice little crawler. They first started right over my head, which was a bit difficult to photograph, but this was the first at a distance that I could fit in frame with the horizon.


This was very bright - turned everything to daylight brightness for a split second.


All around but nothing in the middle


The full-size version of this gives better depth of how this branched out in all directions.


One of only a couple of ground strikes I saw for the night. Most lightning was CC and crawlers.


Rog.

[Proteous]

Well most of you guys have had a good time of it, and shortly, hopefully something similar here. Can see the lightening approaching from the West. Just hope we can score some rain with it.

[James]

quite a bit of distant rumbling going on somewhere near here....i am too tired to bother going out and looking....i think this will go on for some time throughout tonight