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by snowfall
Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:27 am
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Becoming warm to hot, followed by showers: January 22-27
Replies: 41
Views: 3394

Re: Becoming warm to hot, followed by showers: January 22-27

Lots of lightning and a few big thunder claps early this morning, but only 0.6mm in the gauge. We had a very strong and gusty northerly overnight as well. The road ahead is looking pretty dry, with the pattern shifting after the monsoon kicked in. Hopefully it won't be a completely dry February, alt...
by snowfall
Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:22 am
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Developing low with more rain and storms: January 15-20
Replies: 58
Views: 5363

Re: Developing low with more rain and storms: January 15-20

Hey gang, Just a curious question about Summer this year here in Melbourne specifically. I've been watching the charts this summer and anytime there is significant heat incoming and getting close to Melbourne, it seems to dissipate and head back North on the next ACCESS chart run for example. I'm n...
by snowfall
Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Developing low with more rain and storms: January 15-20
Replies: 58
Views: 5363

Re: Developing low with more rain and storms: January 15-20

27mm here. The sun is just starting to poke out from the clouds now.
by snowfall
Wed Jan 17, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Developing low with more rain and storms: January 15-20
Replies: 58
Views: 5363

Re: Developing low with more rain and storms: January 15-20

Beautiful rain this morning. No wind, just heavy tropical-like rain and fog. Almost 20mm so far.
by snowfall
Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:35 am
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10
Replies: 70
Views: 6351

Re: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10

The fog has lifted but it's still cloudy and humid here after buckets of rain the past 2 days. A wet summer so far in Vic. And with a predominantly southerly and easterly focus, temps have been fairly moderate too. The highest temp so far is 31c here, which was way back near the start of December. I...
by snowfall
Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10
Replies: 70
Views: 6351

Re: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10

Surprised about Ballarat. I guess the rain bands for this system have not been especially mobile, with rain streaming over the same areas for hours. The heavy rain has stopped here. It's just drizzle and thick fog now, which I expect will hang around for much of the afternoon. We're on a massive 111...
by snowfall
Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:01 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10
Replies: 70
Views: 6351

Re: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10

It has been absolutely bucketing down over the past couple of hours. Really heavy, torrential stuff, with the rain coming up the south side of the ranges. We're now up to 96mm since midnight.
by snowfall
Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:52 am
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10
Replies: 70
Views: 6351

Re: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10

Another 45mm here overnight and this morning. Could hear lots of thunder in the early hours, although it was mostly distant. That takes it to 88mm for the event. Frogs are chirping away, obviously loving our new wetlands. It's still raining currently, although mostly light to moderate. Heavier rain ...
by snowfall
Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10
Replies: 70
Views: 6351

Re: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10

43mm here. We were lucky to be on the right side of the rain band. It just poured down all day but eased off late this afternoon to light showers this evening. No thunder, just humid tropical-like rain. I don't think it could be any more saturated here now. An amazing summer so far. Would be great i...
by snowfall
Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:21 am
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10
Replies: 70
Views: 6351

Re: Deepening low with rains and storms: January 7-10

Yes, progs are sticking fairly well now for Vic but somewhat jumpier for Tas, except maybe the far northeast. Perhaps a couple more runs will clear the picture as the movement of the low becomes more predictable. At this stage, it looks like all of Vic will see rain. We'll have a northerly kicking i...
by snowfall
Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January
Replies: 54
Views: 5125

Re: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January

Nice storm here this evening. Plenty of lightning and thunder. Rainfall was only moderate, so just 3mm recorded. Looks much more intense on the northern side of the Macedon Ranges, now heading east.
by snowfall
Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January
Replies: 54
Views: 5125

Re: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January

Power is back on. It’s still raining and thundering here. That’s about 3 hours now. The lightning has been very close at times, with big overhead bangs. Just had another one shake the windows a few moments ago. Looks like it will clear from here soon. A lot more rain than I had expected - now 52mm. ...
by snowfall
Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January
Replies: 54
Views: 5125

Re: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January

Rain has eased off now but should continue for maybe an hour or so. Still some big booms. This has been a very active storm.

31mm so far. Not quite as intense as the boxing day storm we had here, but still pretty fierce. Power is still off unfortunately.
by snowfall
Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January
Replies: 54
Views: 5125

Re: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January

Absolutely bucketing down here. 23mm so far.

Wild storm. Big wind gusts. Lots of lightning and huge, house-shaking booms. Power came on and off a few times, and now it’s completely off. Definitely fits the severe storm definition.
by snowfall
Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:25 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January
Replies: 54
Views: 5125

Re: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January

Plenty of rumbling at the moment here with a storm coming in. It’s incredibly dark, almost like the sun has set and it’s dusk. Wind has really picked up too.

Looking at the radar, rain should be in Melbourne in the next hour or so.
by snowfall
Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
Topic: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January
Replies: 54
Views: 5125

Re: Mild then more showers, 29 Dec to 5 January

Still looking like a couple of wet days coming up, starting with tomorrow. There has been a bit of a downgrade in the models on rainfall totals and there’s still a lot of inconsistency between them, despite being less than 24 hours away. For example, UKMO concentrates the largest falls tomorrow thro...
by snowfall
Tue Dec 26, 2023 10:06 pm
Forum: General Weather Archives
Topic: Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December
Replies: 87
Views: 8837

Re: Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December

Another huge, severe storm again today. Big booms, lots of lightning, and intense rainfall, probably the heaviest I have seen in many years, dropping around 50mm in about half an hour and more flash flooding. And then another 10mm in follow up rain… We’re now on a massive 200mm or thereabouts for th...
by snowfall
Mon Dec 25, 2023 3:11 pm
Forum: General Weather Archives
Topic: Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December
Replies: 87
Views: 8837

Re: Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December

(Snowfall, you must be looking at a pretty impressive total for 2023? We're doing well, but I think you've beaten us every major rain event.) I don’t know, I reckon you’ve had some bigger events at times. 2023 was looking fairly ordinary here until the past 3 months. Oct, Nov and Dec have all been ...
by snowfall
Mon Dec 25, 2023 3:04 pm
Forum: General Weather Archives
Topic: Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December
Replies: 87
Views: 8837

Re: Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December

Incredible amount of rain in these parts. We’ve added a further 64mm today, totalling 143mm since yesterday. The rain has only just stopped now and there’s even some blue sky to my north. Otherwise it has been raining non-stop since early this morning. We even had a big storm around late morning wit...
by snowfall
Mon Dec 25, 2023 5:53 am
Forum: General Weather Archives
Topic: Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December
Replies: 87
Views: 8837

Re: Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December

Huge downpour here, with 74mm yesterday evening. Just relentless very heavy rain for around 6 hours and plenty of embedded thunder and lightning too. We’ve since added another 5mm overnight. The low is currently sitting around northwest Vic with some hefty rain bands on the radar. Will be a wet morn...