Warm to hot with some showers and storms: November 29 to December 3

[James]

very dark here all of a sudden but just very occasional distant thunder

no rain at all so far

[stevco123]

very dark here all of a sudden but just very occasional distant thunder

no rain at all so far

That counts as a storm day since you can hear it, so you can cross it off your list

[Dane]

Nothing here in Ballarat as usual when it comes to storms.
Only 7 days of thunder heard this year (last one was in October.)
Did Hit 30c here though the first day in the 30's since 20-2-21.

[occluded]

Here was me thinking that slow-moving huge cell in the inner-east/CBD was going to expire by the time it got here, then a cell formed just to the south of us.

Absolutely caning it down now

[snowfall]

It has been a strange half hour or so here. It has been thundering constantly for about the past 20 minutes, one thunder clap rolling into the other. Haven't heard anything like it for a long time. We've also had large hail stones and massive drops of rain, but all in spitty bursts that has added up to just 0.4mm! The size of drops has meant that we've been under a black area on the radar.

Basically, a fair amount of this is firing up over us and then developing further as it heads east. Must be some great action going on in parts of Melbourne right now.

[James]

continious cloud to cloud lightning to our north east but dry and hot still with only a few spits of rain.

weird how it looks like it developed to the north east, hopefully we get some rain out of it, but the lightning is great but all up in the clouds

amazing to be so hot and dry but a storm right on our doorstep!

[Tempest]

Doppler is interesting at the moment. Don't often see it like that.

[Adam38]

A storm has developed right on top of here… it is hammering down!!

[occluded]

Rain easing off now but still plenty of CC's around.

Had one of the loudest cracks of thunder I've heard in a long time, dog unimpressed. Was some pea-sized hail in the mix too.

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Wind blew tarp off, due to James always wishing for a good storm.


Lots of thunder and lights.. ground damp only…
Although might just be starting to rain..

[Dane]

Edit to my earlier post a cell developed to the SE of me and I heard a couple of rumbles.
No Rain but Thunderday No 8 this year.

[James]

wow that was a loud thunder...you think the storms finished and it fires up again!

[Mike]

Some light rain finally developed, non stop thunder from the stuff to my SE but far enough away that its not loud. About 6 wind changes in the last 30 minutes. All these boundaries drifting around could make for an interesting next hour or so for some of us.

Edit: as I hit submit the sun started to come out.

[snowfall]

Had some proper heavy rain a short while ago and now raining again, still with frequent thunder though not as intense as earlier. 5.2mm now. I see the CBD and areas to the north had a thumping.

[Chritc]

Inner western suburbs had close to 50mm.

[Mike]

Amazing stuff snowfall. Continuous sun since my last post. Officially a trace today (so far) . Storm SE of Ballarat looks huge atm, can see the top of it from here.

Earlier snowfall referred to a storm forming overhead and moving off, this was that storm and as close as I have got to good stuff so far

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[Adam38]

I can hear that storm near Ballarat rumbling away.

[flyfisher]

I saw a big lightening bolt hit Mt Dandenong behind Ferny Creek while driving along Ferntree Gully road. A short time later there was visible smoke coming from that area but it did seem to quickly dissipate.

[Adam38]

Lots of constant thunder now!! That storm is starting to slowly move in.

[Mike]

Smashing down now. Great stuff