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

[Didjman]

Definate hook on Doppler nth of Lara now

JS, any idea what the hook was?

[JasmineStorm]

Definate hook on Doppler nth of Lara now

JS, any idea what the hook was?

There didn't seem to be a an overall Mesocyclone signature so I think the hook was the rear flank of a gust front that came off the bay. Great spotting again

[StratoBendigo]

15mm since yesterday which means 18mm for the week. We've had a few rain showers this afternoon to salvage it.

A cold and windy 10c. Feels like 4c. Brrrr....

[Lara_Hunter]

Very happy with the 43mm in Lara from 8pm last night till now. Our friends up between Anakie and Ballan tipped out 85mm at lunchtime today, they needed this bigtime, and given the next two weeks the sun should be out, should set them up well for the year. Bloody awesome.

[Blackie]

Caught the city downpour at Vic market. Elizabeth St was awash with heavy flash flooding. More like 15-20 mm there around 1pm than the 8mm so far at Olympic Pk.

Anyone seen the photos of the Cape Paterson hailstorm? The culprit mentioned earlier by HB.

[Gordon]

Good to see a few more healthy totals showing up!

Another 29mm here since 9am to add to our 38mm overnight - the rain has cleared I think, so ACCESS-C nailed it for our area. Now reached 147mm mtd, which smashes our 22 year May record, and we're only 10 days in.

Another interesting stat. is we've almost reached our end of April average of 215mm. (We still have to make up 70-odd mm by the end of May to stay on track, but at least it now seems possible.)

[Onetahuti]

7.2mm so far today. Garden had a water, tanks topped up, I made it both ways to see partner in nursing home so I am happy.

[Wilko]

Very happy with the 43mm in Lara from 8pm last night till now. Our friends up between Anakie and Ballan tipped out 85mm at lunchtime today, they needed this bigtime, and given the next two weeks the sun should be out, should set them up well for the year. Bloody awesome.

Wow 85mm good news for that side of town !

[Macedonian]

Looks like its calming down now. 44mm for me and the coldest day of the year with a temp range of 3.9C to a max of 6.5C briefly but mostly in the 5s all day.
Very welcome rain. Over the moon about it.

[hillybilly]

Scored one more cracking shower/storm which dropped a quick 15mm. Quite small, so bit hit and miss locally. This part of the event on 25mm which is basically the inch I was expecting (plus 12mm a couple of days earlier). Looks to be pretty much cleared now, though expect the odd shower as we go more westerly into tomorrow.

Locally quite patchy, mainly in the 15-30mm range. Too southerly for us, so was never going to favour our area.

Max of 9.3C here today, which is our coldest for the year. Not that unusual for May, but still nice to get btw surprised how little snow fell in the alps today. Cut off air has warmed quickly with the strong latent heating. Snowline east of Melbourne looks to have been around 1400m, while the cold pool as it came across western Vic was cold enough for snow below 1000m.

[Dane]

Not only have we had over 60mm's of rain in the last 24 hours it was also the first day this year that we
failed to reach double figures. Max here was 8.7c - Airport hit 9.1c.

[hillybilly]

Drizzly and foggy morning in FC with another mm and a bit in the gauge. Looks like a damp day up here, which is welcome

Btw so amazing photos from Cape Paterson on Twitter etc. here are some of the more amazing ones. Looks like the peak rainfall in that areas was about 101mm. Imagine getting that much precip as mostly hail

[Didjman]

Our rainfall totals for the event are:
Manual gauge - 37.6mm
PWS - 31.24 mm

best rain for the year!

[JasmineStorm]

Nice shots HB, an incredible cell it was. This was my favourite pic that I saw... they needed something better than a shovel for that much hail

[Hawker]

27 mm for this system here, very nice indeed.
bom 10 day and more so EC 10 day trying to make something happen
later next weekend, could do anything though.
Cheers Chris

[hillybilly]

2mm more yesterday with a drizzly and foggy day. Max of 9.8C so two sum tens in a row

Another sneaky front for today should give a couple more mm’s here before the big high comes in. Good grass growing weather this week, with mild temperatures and partly cloudy days. Next system not for a week going by EC

Btw wierd weather in the tropics with TC Lili fading near East Timor and another deep low developing off Queensland. This one could well bring significant rain to Cape York and even the Top End. Not “normal” May weather

[Didjman]

Btw wierd weather in the tropics with TC Lili fading near East Timor and another deep low developing off Queensland. This one could well bring significant rain to Cape York and even the Top End. Not “normal” May weather

I was watching TC Lilis formation last week and the Bom Synoptic had nothing there! I thought our TC season finished in April.... Weird

[Macedonian]

2mm more yesterday with a drizzly and foggy day. Max of 9.8C so two sum tens in a row

Another sneaky front for today should give a couple more mm’s here before the big high comes in. Good grass growing weather this week, with mild temperatures and partly cloudy days. Next system not for a week going by EC

Btw wierd weather in the tropics with TC Lili fading near East Timor and another deep low developing off Queensland. This one could well bring significant rain to Cape York and even the Top End. Not “normal” May weather

I havent had a max above 10C since friday 3/5. It has been quite a cold grey week.
Looks like that will change this week.

[Gordon]

2mm here as well - we seem to be back to getting rain (or at least quantities) more than expected, not the other way around!

[hillybilly]

0.4mm yesterday, with a fairly mild max of 12C. Looks like. Dry (mostly) seven days head Shame as it has been wetting up nicely. Out MTD is about 75mm so off to a good start, but still about 40mm to the average.

TC Ann Cat 2. Cant recall a May TC impacting the Queensland coast, but my memory for such things isn’t great