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15mm here from overnight rain and some brief heavy showers during the morning. Quite cold out tonight.

MTD now approaching 120mm.

The tap has been turned back on for us. Scored 22.5mm from rain overnight and some lingering showers this morning.

Already takes us past 100mm for April so far.

Managed to etch out a further 7mm in drizzly showers on Wednesday to take us to 80.5mm for this thread.

73.5mm here. 63.5mm of it fell before 7.30am, then we got a sharp 10mm in a torrential shower around 8am.

Cracking rain event to break the dry Feb/March period.

Raining solidly here. Initially began as a thunderstorm with close flashes and booms just before sunset. Gotta be at least 15mm so far.

Looks very wet for the next few hours too.

Yep, still holding this morning too. Looks like the potential for some form of low to develop this time next week? We’ve actually managed a light shower here today but hardly enough to register. Shaping up to be a great Easter long weekend for those camping. Still not seeing any true autumn break on...

Managed to luckily snag 10.5mm out of this one, mostly overnight from showers when the colder southwesterly flow kicked in. Great result.

2.75mm here over past two days to ensure we don’t end up on a donut for March.

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. It also feels a bit similar...

Temp still hovering at 32c here, shooting up with the wind change approaching but still a little while off. Incredible for this time of night!

I’m curious about these predictions of a shift back to wetter weather in March. Typically it’s one of our driest months - we often end up with an Indian summer with an extended run of warm mild weather into April. It feels like we’re on a similar trajectory again this year... Elders long range weath...

After building up for the last few hours, those outer east suburbs cells have made it to us too.

Here’s the last pic I took before I started getting wet. Good light show too

Brutal storm through here just after 4pm. I’ll never forget the noise, constant rumbling thunder and roaring wind. Didn’t get a chance to get a pic before it hit due to work, but some of the wind squalls were right up there with the strongest I’ve felt. The straight line winds felt microburst-like. ...

6.5mm here yesterday with a brief storm at lunchtime.

Couple of showers in the morning today then a breezy afternoon. Cool and calm out there now.

Returned from 10 nights down at Phillip Island to find 15.5mm here, most of it presumably from Wednesday’s rain and Thursday’s follow up showers. The Jan total keeps ticking over. Perfect beach weather for the first week with mostly light easterly winds and plenty of sun. The change to westerly flow...

Another 18.5mm here today. Constantly changing from drizzle/light rain/heavy rain all day before clearing at dinner time. 74mm for the thread. The next 7 days looks relatively sedate for Vic, although the troughy synoptic pattern continues with the highs stubbornly remaining to the south of the cont...

Up to 55.5mm here, incredible result and way beyond what a lot of the models had for progged for us. Woke up to a long torrential downpour at 2.30, but must have slept through the rest of it. Looks like the area to our west through to Pakenham copped more, saw a few VicEmergency incidents presumably...

18mm since 2pm here, 15mm of it fell in the first two hours. Has backed off to mainly light rain since. Surprised that we’ve scored so well, was expecting to get heavily rainshadowed today. Must be a testament to the sheer amount of moisture over Vic atm. Most models have us pegged for another inch ...

Been away for a week down at Inverloch. Just tipped out 32mm for that period, including 10mm from a storm earlier this arvo. Muggy as out there now.

Looks like we missed most of the nasty stuff, everything very green here from the Christmas Day rain.

Narrowly missed a line of storms that rolled in from the north east this arvo. Dumped a quick 20-30mm on Drouin and caused a few incidents on the VicEmergency app. Here’s a few pics of the front and back side of the storms. Very dynamic skies and an unusual trajectory for storms to take for this area.