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177mm for the month in Trentham....spongy is a good word for up here!!

Trentham has so far received 29.2mm since the even started with a couple of interesting graupel showers this morning and around 2pm. Pressure got down to 986.0hPa at 2.48pm and has dragged itself back to 986.9 at 7.10pm. Wind is still out of the NE

Trentham report...raining on a strong northeasterly.....can hear the trees complaining (rarely if ever hear it from that direction)....currently 993.8...Jane

Tweet from SA Power Networks " No upstream supply from the transmission network. State currently w/out power. Do not report outages. We will provide updates when avail."

Our Trentham weather station has had a gust of 57.9kmh so far!

-0.8°C in Trentham atm.......

Thunder in Trentham just before from a cell to our north......0.2mm at 2mm/hr!!

Hi all, Have just moved the station from one computer to another and have had to start a new link for the station...still working on the html but the obs are current.. http://trentham.bsch.au.com/Trentham/Current_Vantage_Prop2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Cheers, Jane

Trentham has had 7.6mm after the dust went through, dropped form 22C to 10C, had thunder and small hail!

Evening all, Clyve and I left Geelong (after rushing out from Christmas lunch) about 3.30pm and headed up towards the Fiskville area. Have put a shot here to give you an idea of what we saw and reported to the BoM and the rest of the images are on the linked pages below. Compilation couresy of Paul ...

Great comprehensive reporting!!!! Well done on a great few chases!

Evening all, Clyve and I left Geelong (after rushing out from Christmas lunch) about 3.30pm and headed up towards the Fiskville area. Have put a shot here to give you an idea of what we saw and reported to the BoM and the rest of the images are on the linked pages below. Shot taken east of Fiskville...

We got a rain rate of 329mm/hr tonight in the backyard in Trentham and I must have driven through the same rate in Clunes earlier in the afternoon!!!

A couple of photos from yesterday's chase..more to come tomorrow (or check out Clyve's Facebook) Enjoy! Clyve H Skipton storm and the Trentham Stormchasers case vehicle 091111ch01.jpg During suspected tornadic phase (E of the Grampians). BoM indicated radar returns of hailstone size up to 8cm! 09111...

Clyve & I went chasing (he left home well before I made my excduses and finally escaped from work). We've got lots of photos of some pretty interesting storms up around Ballarat, Carisbrook area...but we have a power cut so you'll have to wait till the power's back on befoe we can download the p...

Sitting just NW IF Maldon watching midlevel showers with the area to the SE stabilizing....some mid level convection starting again off to the NW

Jane

Great report!!! Love your photos...thanks for posting

Jane

I think I might just go for a bit of an afternoon drive....never know what you might see......

Some deep convection over the past two hours around the central ranges Vic.....the first thunder at 1435 to the southeast and a second one at 1438. looks like a pulsy cell southeast of Blackwood...crap chase country Clyve H

Just over 10mm here, no thunder at all and nothing overly heavy just steady soaking rain for the last couple of hours. Bullengarook got 21mm so there was certainly some heavier stuff in it. For some reason the radar didn't pick up the rain here with a curious looking 'hole' sitting over my area. :?...