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Heading my way!! Hopefully holds course as it clips the bay to Safety Beach. Just heard the first boom!! Think that was the same boom I just heard! Yeah it was, my old man just gave me a call from the Island and he heard it haha. Looking like will miss here now sadly, might drive and watch it pass ...

Heading my way!!

Hopefully holds course as it clips the bay to Safety Beach.

Just heard the first boom!!

Ok seabreeze has picked up considerably on the bay.

For what it's worth I'm on the bay right now and there is next to no breeze, extremely minimal. Flat as a tack.

Awesome stuff HB, great write up!

Unsure what to expect in Safety Beach today, hopefully we get a bit of action.

Beautiful on the beach at the moment though!

I know I'm banging on about this, but this is by far the worst the smoke has been. Absolutely awful outside, almost pitch black, eerily quiet down the beaches and town as you literally cannot go outside without choking. Just got back from IGA and 5 mins outside max. has given me a constant cough. Wi...

All over red rover here.

Thunder and lightning was awesome, not alot of rain.

Smoke is full on now. Any ideas why?

Looks like the airport is closed.

Flightradar24 showing a lot of grounded planes and holding patterns in the air.

Still constant down here, radar is mental!

Smoke just increased tenfold for whatever reason also. Strange arvo!

Constant thunder and lightning.

Haven't had this in years its absolutely constant. Radar seems to be massively overestimating here, im under green and yellow but it's barely spitting.

This thunder is absolutely incredible though. Holy sh*t!

This is incredibly frustrating from Safety Beach. Just move!!

Incredibly thick smoke haze here too.

Make it over for gods sake!!

Such a waste just parked over the bay.

That cell just got a baby brother!

Storm crossing the pay looks to be packing a punch!

StratoBendigo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 8:39 pm EC for Monday is ummm.... Bonkers.

So is GFS.

Check the rainfall and Thunderstorm Probabilities on Stormcast, holy sh*t

Absolutely putrid outside.

Driving to work visibility was down to around 50m at the back of Mornington on Peninsula Link.

Whole office stinks.

Covered in thick smoke down on the peninsula, can't see Arthurs Seat from Safety Beach. Stinks.

Feel like radar is over estimating, we had a nice green and yellow patch over us and had F all. Hopefully not the same for the fire effected areas

Radar looks thick for most of central, looks good!!

Pouring again here now

Yep, power just came back on. Going to run to the shops before it goes off again. :P Unfortunately that cell weaken by the time it crossed the water. We ended up with a 30 second shower with no lightning. We may end up with an opportunity for further rain if the radar is anything to go by. Unfortun...