Vic: April 12 -22 Cool, mild, warm, then a potential upper low

[stevco123]

New rain tipping mechanism for my Davis weather station arrived yesterday and now accurately reports 9.0mm so far from this event

Very please, compared to the 0mm forecast only 3 days ago

[Wilko]

Are very welcome 8mm here and a little more to come by the look of the radar

[snowfall]

6.4mm here so far. We have been somewhat rain shadowed, with the heavier falls occurring just to the north of us, but still happy with this amount and keeps the tanks full and the garden green. Currently raining moderately.

[StratoBendigo]

And the winner so far is Woomelang with 103mm in the past 24 hours. Smashes previous highest daily total for April set in 1926. Second highest ever (6th March 1910 with 115mm).

Some of the local creeks are running bankers, but I looking at the radar that's about it for us.

[Dane]

8.6mm's in the 24 hours to 9am here. MTD now 38.4mm. Looks to be clearing now.

[Gordon]

10mm exactly here, although I checked the gauge to find that the Easter bunny had left an undiscovered egg in the funnel. I think the water could get around it... certainly hope so!

Nothing on the radar so that may be it, but it has the feel of a 'something from nothing' day with a DP of 16, so not hanging out the washing just yet .

[Hawker]

Yes Gordon that would be a bit brave.
Drizzle and light rain constant here with a bit more popping up on the radar.
Might develop more.

C'mon experts make a bold prediction

[Gordon]

C'mon experts make a bold prediction

Yes and no waiting until the radar fills in - that's cheating!

[Hawker]

You're looking for trouble Gordon

(I think they are hiding at the moment)

[JasmineStorm]

30.2mm so far. Very handy

Here's my 2 cents worth on the 9.40am - she hasn't finished yet

[Hawker]

Ahhh flushed one out
Good Morning Jasmine
Too hard to say, we seem to be near the edge here, might be a lot or nor much.
You should do better, a bit further east.
Cheers Chris

[Gordon]

Thanks JS! You would certainly think that with a low pressure centre and trough line still back to the west, there must be more good falls to come for parts of central, north central & northern county.

[JasmineStorm]

Morning Hawker and Gordon..... Looking at the position of the trough, the moisture feed still coming in and the cloud top temps in the last hour, I think the radar is going to getting busy again, east of the trough

[StratoBendigo]

We might just get a bit more with the last hurrah. Gauge at 37mm.

[Wilko]

Great falls out west
Happy for you guys out west
Really good to see some rain in the desert
Radar looks promising with the rain tilting around the low

[hillybilly]

10mm at home in FC. Good start.

It's definitely not over. Really unstable ahead of this trough with LI headed down to the -3 to -6 range. Expect the radar to be very colourful this arvo.

And the winner so far is Woomelang with 103mm in the past 24 hours. Smashes previous highest daily total for April set in 1926. Second highest ever (6th March 1910 with 115mm).

Quite stunning. That would be about 1/3rd of the annual average. I've got a cropping friend near Birchip who picked up 90mm so very happy.

BTW Adelaide set a late season precipitable water record yesterday. People probably don't notice because we're well on the way to winter, but the main story here is deep tropical moisture yet again making it down to southern OZ.

[Andy]

Well you wouldn't know it from radar but its absolutely bucketing down here now! I agree that there could be a lot of heavy falls around this arvo.

[Tassiedave]

Nothing in Tassie yet, Midday temperatures Launceston 23.7, Hobart 24.0.

[HarleyB]

Up to 27mm here now, absolutely delighted with that after missing out somewhat 2 weeks ago.

[stevco123]

Full blown rainshadow in effect it seems.

Edit> being broken slowly