Looks like heavy rain fell around Lake Burrumbeet about 20kms west of Ballarat
PWS on the north side of the Lake registered 97mm
Another one just to the west of the Lake over 200mm's

It's a PWS so sometimes they can overread but still pretty incredible

After more than 2 hours of Lightning and Thunder.
Not one drop of Rain at my place in Sebastopol.
The Airport got clipped by that storm and had 20mm.
Airport is 10 km to the NNW of me

Seeing some fairly frequent sheet Lightning from those storms just to my West and NW. Thunder a bit louder now but it still looks like missing me. Checked some PWS - 16mm's at Burrumbeet and 17 mm's at Lexton. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IBALLA16 Edit - Storm only about 15kms away goi...

Hearing a few rumbles from those cells to my West.
They are very slow moving and are not headed this way.

Nothing here as mentioned earlier hopefully it will deliver tomorrow.
Interesting humid wind change though here not long ago.
At 4.45pm it was 31c dew point was minus 1c.
At 5pm wind had swung to the east Temp was 30c and Dew point was 14c.
Right now 27/14

Looks like a nothing day here. Dew point at the Airport (Ballarat) has dropped below zero, so dry here.
Can just see the tops of those storms NE Of Melbourne.
Locally just a few fair weather Cu around.
Fizzer here I think for today anyway. Again.

Another Day when I seem to be right on the boundary between the action and no action just like last Wednesday when I got 5mm"s but not far to the West there was nothing and not far to my East there was more than 20mm's . Just have to wait and see. Still only 20mm MTD here. Sebastopol PWS - https://...

Another Day when I seem to be right on the boundary between the action and no action
just like last Wednesday when I got 5mm"s but not far to the West there was nothing and not far to my East
there was more than 20mm's .
Just have to wait and see. Still only 20mm MTD here.

Just too far West to get the best of it yesterday had 4.9mm's in the 24 hours to 9am. 7.0mm's at the Airport.
MTD now 19.7mm's - Airport 20.6mm's - Monthly average 39mm's

Quite a Bit of Thunder and Lightning with that storm but not much Rain.
I recorded 4mm's with 3.4mm's at the Airport.
Looks like its over for here anyway.
Max today was 34.8c on my PWS - Now 20.3c.
45 Strikes detected on my Lightning tracker.

Avalon 38mm's in 22 mins.

Currently 34/14 here.
Storm to my SW cant hear any thunder though - too far away?
A Line of storms seems to be developing not far to my west
Still a few holes in the Line lets hope it fills in and develops further
before it reaches here.

That storm NE of Geelong developed very quickly.
Only Storm around at the moment.
Fearing I might be a bit too far West to get much.

Tracker already picking up some lightning to the far south of here just North of Cape Otway.
Cant see the clouds because of the Thick Smoke Haze.
Very dry around here - hope we get some Rain later

Looks a bit marginal for here. Wednesday looks the best chance for any storms.
Should be better further east so lets hope they get a good drink in the fire areas
and that lightning doesn't trigger any more fires.
Only had 33mm's of Rain since November 11 so could use some now.

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Yesterday just after the Rain started here in Ballarat I posted that I thought we would be Lucky to get much more than about 3mm's here. Very Happy to be proved wrong. 12.0mm's up to 9am today best fall since November 8 last year. MTD now 14.8mm's. Ballarat Airport had 9.6mm's but Looking at local P...

Cool Change thru here now. Temp peaked at 28.7c on my PWS at 1.23pm now its 16.6c and falling quickly. Light rain here as well now but only 0.4mm's so far. Not Looking that good on the radar so would be surprised if we got much more than about 3mm's. Hope I'm wrong as have only had 10mm's so far thi...

Very smoky here today, Vis down to about 3kms.
Didn't get much from that rain event just 2.8mm's here and 3.0mm's at the Airport.
Just too far West.
Another cool day here only reached 13.6c yesterday on my PWS 14.1c at the Airport.
Currently its 16.3c - 1.55pm

Much cooler today just 10.9c on my PWS at the moment 1.35pm. Highest so far 11.8c.
2.2mm's of rain here this morning - fine and cloudy now.
Temperatures recorded from ambient heat in bush fires do not count in official records.

Hardly any rain forecast here for the next week. Just 6.9mm's for December here in Sebastopol - Ballarat Airport had 5.4mm's for the month. Ballarat Airport had 551mm's for the Year - Ave 687mm 7 of the last 8 years have been below average. I only moved here on 8-3-19 but still had more Rain than th...