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Can see very nice convection N and NW of the city, Cu against clear skies looking magical. Must be building along a southerly convergence. Nice looking cell near Gisbourne on the radar now.

Must admit the radar looks impressive, but rainfall observations are less encouraging. Most of the rainfall totals between 5pm and 6pm are around 0.5mm. Perhaps it has intensified and will be falling heavier though central areas but since the radar coverage in Western Vic is ...., it is hard to judg...

Round 2 moving through now, main feature is the heavy rain but it's short lived.

Welcome Hunter. Looking good as the radar and lightning tracker fires up. Will need the rain after the drying today!

Agree with hillybilly. Looks way too dry at low levels for anything substantial rain wise/ large storms. The mid-teen dewpoint forecast at the surface is basically only at the surface, moisture is way too shallow as it dries substantially. Precipitable water around 20mm for most of the state which s...

Woke up due to an absolute downpour last night. Heaviest in many months. Suns out this morning and things look quite convective, cumulus cloud tops rising nicely. Still a while out but next Saturday looks pretty stormy according to the GFS. Lifted index values of -10c and as low was -12c throughout ...

CC lightning, thunder and downpour in the city now. Very exciting

Convective cell south of Healesville - is anyone in its path? The radar is showing orange for the first time, which must be carnage

Also very appreciative of the time and effort Jasmine puts into posts - please don't leave! 6mm from last nights showers and showers on/off today with nice sunny breaks.

Steady moderate and thick rain through here, up to 5mm! Agree that the Geelong video probably isn't snow, I doubt that much 'snow' could accumulate so quickly in the gutter/grass. Hoping Friday delivers nice falls here and more low level snow.

Not over yet for me, nice shower with hail just came through. Should note the showers on the Broadmeadows radar show up somewhat weaker relative to Laverton. Melbourne airport is sitting in the 4c range with showers about to move in, interested to see any changes. Areas north of the airport are also...

Chucky shower through here brings the 24hour total over 10mm.

Very nice hail shower dumped through here. Beautiful sky; mean looking cumuloform coldies with blue skies in between and bleach white tops of the next showers imbound. Definiely colder air moving through now.

Coming down nice and moderately now, first solid rain in the area for a while! Should collect around 5mm from the band.

Rained all day at Buller yesterday, 89mm up there. Lots of snow melt evident with many dirt and slurpee-like patches showing by the afternoon. All of the mountain streams are gushing from the melt and rain water. 74cm is the average depth of snow after around 100cm before the rain. Huge loss

Going for a day trip to Buller tomorrow to ski, rain will certainly make a mess of everything. Top of around 5c and rain will mean a lot of snow loss/ slushiness. Would love to go later in the week but tomorrow is the only day I can go

Went for a bit of a drive around the central ranges today. Wasn't much precipitation of any kind, most showers were skirting the Macedon area. Was sleeting and hailing at the top of Macedon at around 2:30 on the edge of a shower, no doubt it would have snowed on the back end of a heavy shower. Pea-s...

Apparently about 40cm has fallen at Hotham today alone! All the lifts were closed due to thundersnow concerns. The road to Falls Creek is closed as well.

Looks like coldest since CBD day since the 9th of July 1998 with 8.9c. Unsure whether we should be comparing data of the Olympic Park site to the Regional Office (old site) - but thats for another discussion. Interestingly the 9.0c we recorded yesterday is actually the median lowest annual maximum a...

Bad damage in the inner northwest here. Brick walls down, front fences down, trees on powerlines and branches covering roads. Wasn't this much damage in the wind event last year. Wind has died down a lot and peaked around midday.