Victoria: Low pressure system. March 4th-10th 2010

[Dane]

Good storm for most of Melbourne but still a bit of a dud here, just light rain, no hail and less than 6mm's. still some distant thunder.

[Dez]

Anyone able to save the radar frames for this please (after it ends)? I'd love to see it all getting replayed.

[DarkEye]

Still stands, but keep and eye on the Adelaide radar.

Will do, but the Melbourne one's more interesting, talk about nuts.

EDIT: To be contrasty, it hasn't been too bad down my end.

[Jake Smethurst]

Dez, there are websites, I think one called, The weather chaser, that has radar history kept.

Dane, you've done better than here. A big fat zero, much of the wimmera and western areas missing out. As I said before, Melbourne has no right to whinge about not getting thunderstorms for a long time ... it's been ages since a direct hit here at home.

[droughtbreaker]

...would not want to go through that again

Standing at Redfern station or the hail.

Sun out again. Stack of rain looks at this stage like it is coming down from the NW for this evening. More storms likely to develop into the evening also.

[I_Love_Storms]

Anyone able to save the radar frames for this please (after it ends)? I'd love to see it all getting replayed.

They will be available on a certain website, just ask for the link later on. Cheers,

[Leasy]

Surround-sound thunder out here now, getting darker to my NW, very turbulent sky up above with some mammatus - will go out for another look.

[mick]

BOM has confirmed supercell.

[Instability]

Now that I have done a damage check and stopped the leaking roof

We got some massive hail in Burwood just before the main front passed. I was outside clearing up and tieing stuff down when I heard some almighty thuds on the deck, roof and path. It was about 1 every 15 seconds, but I headed inside before I got a chance to see them.

We then got about 5 minutes of rain and hail the size of olives, which I thought was it. We then got winds that I would estimate at over 100km/h followed by torrential rain and hail around 20-30mm in size for about 10 minutes.

The amazing thing was the 5 minutes before the first hail fell. Everything went a dark jade colour reflecting the colour of the sky, and whilst the gust line was coming from my NW the scud and lower cloud to my south was clearly heading in a westerly direction. Not sure if this was due to rotation of the entire structure or because of inflow.

Will post some hail shots later.

Rog.

[Anthony Violi]

Anyone else think that this isnt one of the biggest systems in decades??

I think we have just witnessed one of the biggest storms in many a decade...

And there is plenty more to come, bands of rain and thunderstorms should channel themselves over central areas for at least the next 12 hours, then hopefully tilt tomorrow from the NE as it barrel rolls over the state.

Will see massive totals by the time this is all over, absolutely huge.

How good is it?? Its fantastic!!

PS Dont worry Jake, your turn is coming.

[I_Love_Storms]

I agree AV Melbs biggest hailstorm in history probably?

[Leasy]

First lightning observed for the day CG to my south west - starting to rain quite a bit now, me likey!

[Jake Smethurst]

Look at the black core now in the supercell!! http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR023.loop.shtml HUGE area of black core!! Golf ball size hail galore no doubt!

[Lily]

Was just about to say the same thing, Jake. It's strengthened a beaut!

[mick]

Looking at the amazing videos, it was a lot more rain than nov 74, only elizabeth street ran as a river which it once was then, today many rivers so it would indeed be a record for melb city.

[dagget]

...would not want to go through that again

Standing at Redfern station or the hail.

Sun out again. Stack of rain looks at this stage like it is coming down from the NW for this evening. More storms likely to develop into the evening also.

The hail that day! and it was quite localised as well, huge bettering to the E suburbs but where I was in the inner west not great problems, was very worried about broek windows, dents and everything else. Loads of hail damaged cars for sale after that very very cheap.

More rain here, nice and steady, the TV has gone off again (satellite dish) so heavy weather about to hit once more.

[I_Love_Storms]

I think Melb got 78mm in hour in 74 so that in terms of rain was still a lot bigger I think. But the hail is the big thing here. Widespread damage it seems.

[Leasy]

Round 3 has hit us here! Lightning overhead and what seems to be constant thunder and very heavy rain! Really dark outside now. Loving it!

[Skywalker]

It would definately come close Anthony, what an amazing couple of weeks around the western suburbs though. We have now had 2 huge storms smash their way through my area in the past few weeks.

[Lily]

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - MELBOURNE AREA

for DAMAGING WIND, FLASH FLOODING and LARGE HAILSTONES

For people in the Inner, South East, Eastern, Northern, Western, Outer East, Western Port and parts of the Mornington Peninsula and Port Phillip Local Warning Areas.
Issued at 4:11 pm Saturday, 6 March 2010.
The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 4:10 pm, very dangerous thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Gembrook, the area east of KooWeeRup, the area east of Pakenham and the area northeast of Pakenham. These thunderstorms are moving towards the south to southeast. Other severe thunderstorms were located near Neerim, the area west of Kilmore, the area west of Sunbury, the area west of Whittlesea and French Island. They are forecast to affect Craigieburn, Greensborough, Melton and Preston by 4:40 pm and Dandenong, Glen Waverley, Melbourne City and Ringwood by 5:10 pm.
Damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones are likely