Vic - Feb 13th to 20th 2017 - Mild, Warm with a cool showery end

StratoBendigo · Post by **StratoBendigo** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 10:57 am

Not bad for February at Mt Hotham:

Dane · Post by **Dane** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 10:59 am

Had 31mm's up to 9am. Wasn't expecting that. what a great system.
Still raining now, over 70mm's MTD (ave 55mm's)
Melbourne water Cranbourne sth had 32mm's.

Geoff · Post by **Geoff** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:06 am

46mm here and still hammering down. Next lot on the radar is lining us up too so should pass 50mm soon.
!0.1C at 11am.

Post by **hillybilly** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:55 am

56mm in FC now. Not far off our monthly average in 24 hours (our monthly average is about 70mm). I suspect this is the best we've had from a cold outbreak in 10+ years now. Certainly we've had bigger events but they involve multiple fronts of lows.

Looks to be starting to clear now. Might sneak up to 60mm.

Geoff · Post by **Geoff** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:08 pm

It's certainly very localised. I left home in pouring rain and fog, down off the hill in Kilsyth/Bayswater it was warm sunshine, then back up the hill into heavy rain and small hail. Last of the big showers about to clear here now, I wonder what a bit of warm sun might produce?

stevco123 · Post by **stevco123** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:09 pm

Picture of forming tornado near East Bentleigh yesterday:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/a-tor ... ugkol.html

WeatherViewer · Post by **WeatherViewer** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:25 pm

Was quite an exciting day yesterday. My rain gauge doesn't quite reflect that as the showers were fast moving, collected only 2.3mm here in Tarneit. Amazing clouds, Thunder, Rain & Hail!

I snapped this shot of some cool cloud formations from my yard last night, sorry about the size.

Geoff · Post by **Geoff** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:44 pm

Nice photo WeatherViewer! Mammatocumulus on the decaying back end of a cumulonimbus cell, classic!
Sunshine here now and temp up to 13C.
(Edit, there's a tiny little speck on the radar which is giving us a complete cloudburst, absolutely torrential)!

JasmineStorm · Post by **JasmineStorm** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:00 pm

Off she goes......

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/w ... 62,-41.891

@Skywalker - yep, dust bowl up here as well.

It's going to be fascinating on how the authorities will classify Wednesday for the fire danger rating on the central district. Clearly, some southern areas are totally saturated but some north western areas are now bone dry.

Macedonian · Post by **Macedonian** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:20 pm

Wow, almost 60mm in the Dandies, 4mm at Mt Macedon. Grrrr!

Wilko · Post by **Wilko** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:51 pm

stevco123 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:09 pm Picture of forming tornado near East Bentleigh yesterday:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/a-tor ... ugkol.html

That was the same funnel I saw from my backyard

Geoff · Post by **Geoff** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 5:04 pm

I think it's finished with us now. Ended up with 55mm, takes our Feb tally to 105mm so far.

Onetahuti · Post by **Onetahuti** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:04 pm

Geoff wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2017 5:04 pm I think it's finished with us now. Ended up with 55mm, takes our Feb tally to 105mm so far.

I ended up with 45mm, garden very well watered, tank overflowing again and it's February!

Post by **hillybilly** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:13 pm

Looks to be all done. Event total of 57mm for us. Coldest Feb day in 21 years, and best summer cold outbreak since 2006. MTD is about 130mm so a good Feb - think that is our best since Feb 2011 (we got 200mm in a night then so not much chance of topping it

).

Now I fear we will pay for the excitment with a long period of late summer boredom

StratoBendigo · Post by **StratoBendigo** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:41 am

Really cold here this morning. Not far off from being a frost in the gully we live in. Had to put the split cycle on heat briefly this morning. I can't ever remember having to do that.

Hard to believe it'll be low 30s tomorrow.

Macedonian · Post by **Macedonian** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 8:36 am

5.1C at Mt Macedon
3C at work in Macedon and 1.4C at Trentham this morning.

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:55 pm

Coldest Feb minimum on record for Canberra at 2.8C.

Besides Mangalore, any other Feb minimum records broken in Victoria?

Macedonian · Post by **Macedonian** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:29 pm

I heard Swan Hill broke its record yesterday Gordon. 5.5C

HarleyB · Post by **HarleyB** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:41 pm

Gordon wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:55 pm Coldest Feb minimum on record for Canberra at 2.8C.

Besides Mangalore, any other Feb minimum records broken in Victoria?

Strathbogie broke their old record by 0.8 on Sunday morning, 1.2, the old record was 2.0 in 1980.

Swan Hill, Longerenong, Tatura and Mount Moornapa equalled or broke their records on Monday morning, but none of those stations are over 50 years old. It was damn cold nonetheless

Post by **hillybilly** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 8:11 pm

7C here this morning which is chilly for us. Cleared to a warm sunny day.

Btw that Canberra ob is partly a result of a site move. The new spot is in a bit of a frost hollow. Overall looks to me like this is about the most notable February cold outbreak in about thirty years (give or take). Hope we get a repeat come July

Hot tomorrow. Bit of a worry with the high winds and low humidity for spots which have missed recent rain

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