Only 8mm for here yesterday so I really missed out compared to other areas immediately around town, but the thunder and lightning was fantastic!!. Am i right in thinking that the weekends weather will be coming in from the east? I normally do very well rainfall wise with anything coming from the se ...

Smoke is really bad now!!! Thunder rumbling again.

Plenty of lightning and thunder here but not a lot of rain, maybe a mm or 2... it looked great on radar but...

Very smoky out there now... the Air Quality index locally has jumped from 120 to 392 over the last hour.

Yes the smoke is shocking! Just jumped from 180 to 370 over the last couple of hours at the closest air monitoring station in Melton.

Had 6mm overnight to make it 13mm from this rain band, very happy with that and so is the garden. Smoke haze is shocking...

A nice 7mm in the gauge this morning, drizzling heavily atm.

Those temps in western Sydney are frightening!!

Very thick haze now moving into town here, a fire has also broken out about 15kms to the north at Dales Creek, Firetrucks are racing up the western fwy.

The whole of Bacchus Marsh and surrounds is without power... and will be for quite some time according to the powercor website

Just had a nasty squall go through!! A funnel of dust was moving down the Werribee river valley, moved up the ridge and passed over houses down the street... haven’t checked for any damage yet.

The temp shot up very quickly here once the cloud cleared!

Definitely no green around Bacchus! I live in a bushfire/grassfire zone, so today I will be staying home. Currently 38c and the wind is really picking up.

It looks like those fires out east have created thunderstorms

Thick smoke haze here this morning!

Ballarat has hit 43.5, smashing the December record by almost 3c...

43.8 here, I have numerous magpies and magpie larks all sitting at the front door trying to escape this heat...

Temp here has jump 10c in 1 hour...now 38c.

Those morning temps in SA are just staggering!! Roseworthy, 43.3c at 9:19am...

48.1c at Ceduna now

Nullarbor could hit 50c... currently 49.2c