VIC - Cold week with occasional showers: June 18-22 2019

[hillybilly]

New thread for the week ahead which will see a strong (though moisture starved) front on Tuesday usher in a cold week with showers and mountain snow. Best of it will be in the usual wet spots (Otways, Yarra Ranges, South Gippsland) with not a lot inland. Uppers are cold so snow will fall below the alps, though not likely to drop to the town level (save perhaps for Trentham which might be a chance). Also quite cold overnight with fairly light winds so some decent frosts.

This could well be the last event for the month looking at EC so hopefully this one delivers (and next week looks positively balmy for mid winter ).

[flyfisher]

Looks like a blocking pattern to me after this front. We needed the rain to be continuous all winter to make up the shortfall but not looking the case. We were bound to get a block at some point.

[Macedonian]

Yr has 1cm of snow for me this afternoon and another 1.5cm on Thursday and temps no higher than 5C until Sunday.

[hillybilly]

A few dribbles overnight, but not enough to tip the gauge. Looks to have been about 0.1mm.

Wet day ahead, though radar is a bit feeble ATM. I need 34mm to get to average, so hoping to be surprised (EC suggests 15mm give or take).

Going to be a cold week for us. Latest EC suggests a max of around 6C for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday

[Gordon]

2.5mm here so far; looks okay for east Central, which would be good - we've had a decent run here.

Supposedly zero or below here every night for the next several - Macedonian if you do get snow, it probably won't melt in a hurry!

[Didjman]

Can definitely see clouds dropping snow from Tullamarine. I'd expect small hail this arvo in Melbourne and surrounds

[Wilko]

Just found some time to check radar and I like what I see
Period of moderate to heavy rain moving up from the heads..looks awesome
Should be some good totals

[Adam38]

Nothing much to report here, just a few light showers this morning and only had a few drops from the band of showers moving through Melbourne now.

[StratoBendigo]

We had a short burst of hail earlier this afternoon. Temp dropped from 12c to 8c.

[Macedonian]

Cold and showery here, had a max of 5.7C and back down to 3.8C now.

[Dane]

4.4mm's so far, MTD now 62mm's which is very close to the monthly average.
Temp dropped to 5.7c around 2pm with the last lot of showers
now its back up to 8.2c in the sunshine.

[wobbie]

Just found some time to check radar and I like what I see
Period of moderate to heavy rain moving up from the heads..looks awesome
Should be some good totals

It looked pretty nice but dwindled away to almost nothing here

[stevco123]

Just your typical rainband, but still 5mm is welcome. Quite damp around here now with many, many, many puddles

[Onetahuti]

6.4mm for the day so far, most of which fell aroud 2PM I expect. MTD is 42.6mm.

[hillybilly]

Complete dud in FC splitting showers to our north/south/east and west. Was expecting 10mm, but only 3.2mm so far today for us MTD about 70mm, and not feeling too confident we will get to average from this point (about 100mm). System is clearly moisture starved with plenty of virga and low DPs and showing lots of bright banding, so totals away from the coast and higher ranges are lean and radar overstimating.

Hoping to see a swly stream develop overnight, to top totals up.

EC is sneaking some cold air over us on Wed/Thur which could deliver some lower level snow from later tomorrow. Latest EC meteogram is showing some sleet/snow showers in the Dandenongs now.

[snowfall]

Just 2.1mm here. I haven’t looked yet but I suspect the better falls slid to our south today. It’s quite cold though - currently 5.5c.

[hillybilly]

Sneaked the edge of a coldie. 2mm of graupel in quick time. Temperature sat on 5C. Feels like it should be colder given the ferocity of the shower.

Another one inbound, maybe.

Just 3km south of here has now had 12mm after scoring three coldies in a row. 5mm here now.

[Macedonian]

Clear here, no rain or flakes since i got home.
Chilly though. 1.5C now.

[Tassiedave]

Tas rainfall since 9am: Reece Dam 44mm, Zeehan 34mm, Mt Victoria 21mm, Mt Barrow 14mm, Launceston 5.4mm, Hobart 2mm

[stevco123]

10.4mm since 9am, and a bit more to come from the perfectly set up southwest stream