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52mm here since the rain started early yesterday morning. Still going - mainly the same dense small droplet stuff that confuses the radar, but it sure adds up!

Haven't done the exact math, but our November total will be looking a lot less embarrassing than it was a week ago.

Rain here appears light due to small droplet size, but is actually quite 'thick' and drenching if you have to go out in it (like I just did to check our overflowing water tanks!).

We're up to 20mm since this lot started early this morning, and it shows no sign of backing off.

Surprised that the media aren’t really talking about this system. Strikes me as potentially very nasty for the worst affected regions. Suspect they're struggling with the mental gear shift from the El Nino heat/drought/fire thing, to this. Steady rain set in here and may have to light the fire agai...

No temp over 20° for a whole week either. Great rain totals for you as well Macedonian. Our mere 20mm is good enough for us; especially as it looks like adding into a lovely long spell of wet, cool weather. Keeps us green, stock well-fed, and pushing fire risk back. No 30C days as yet this spring, ...

Another 5mm so far today, 18mm for the dates. Not a patch on some of the totals posted to date, but I'll take it!

13mm here, good start.

Very odd system. Low pressure centre of 1013hpa at 11am today (about over the Coorong), is forecast to barely move to be just west of Nelson at 11am tomorrow at 1009hpa. Basically stationary, but intensifying. Meanwhile, we've had full cloud and intermittent light rain for about an hour, but barely ...

Yep, the 'system' (if you can call it that) is on our doorstep, but the picture isn't any clearer than it was several days ago, at least to my inexpert eye!

Really want this one to come off, which doesn't make the uncertainty any easier...

The farmers around here don't want rain atm. They're busy harvesting and it would largely be of nuisance value. Still benefit in rain around here for pasture and late-sown cereal crops, plus keeping the local area green and fire risk down. Is drying off fast, so this coming system would be welcome ...

Good system for a bit of 'model shopping' - Latest ACCESS gives us 170mm by Sunday night, while UK has 7mm. All the other models somewhere in between

Fascinating watching the storms develop in a northwesterly direction along a narrow convergence line, running from about Melbourne to beyond Ballarat, with us smack in the middle of the storm train-line! Just when it seemed we were sure to miss out, with all the action to the dreaded east... As hill...

Nervously watching the sky and the radar with that 'right on the edge' feeling... Could be a lot or nothing.

What are peoples thoughts re storms the next 2 days - where / when? I am thinking Wimmera, Northern, North Central, Central, NE, Gippsland? Looks like a pretty intense storm just east of Geelong right now - black on the radar! http://flystream.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-06-18...

Looking more and more like a sustained period of reasonable 'troughy' rainfall for eastern and central Vic. As things stand, we will be right on the western edge of this system - fingers crossed! Heat wise, can't see anything above mid-twenties for us, and perhaps quite a cold patch in about a week.

7mm from thundery showers today; handy little top up.

3mm here, most of which fell in the form of ice one way or another .

Neighbours reported snow flurries (their words, so sounds convincing); I only saw hail and sleet, but I wasn't home all day.

Absolute cracker of a storm here last night. Peak rainfall rate of 230mm/hr and strobe lightning for nearly two hours. Picked up 41mm to 9am to add to the 4mm yesterday. Good to see south-eastern Tas getting a bit. Looking forward to an update after the latest wrap around comes through. Nasty day h...

That is a fantastic photo! One for the BOM calendar surely?

Back to the thread, and this has been a good follow-up for us. A further 8mm makes 20.5mm for this event, and 59mm mtd.

Feral out there this morning, with horizontal showers in gale force winds at 6.5C.

Yes, models seem to have upgraded for this system(s) and will hopefully prove to be a good follow up for last week's great falls. Not seeing a warm or dry day here for at least a week now.

38mm here and surprisingly sustained cold (well, surprising after September!), barely making it to double figure maximums for the last 4 days, and similar today. Burning firewood like its winter. Nothing like the eastern Vic totals, but local streams and lakes are brimming again, and the country loo...