Oh well radar is down anyway - not that we really need it any more, the western desert has spread across all of Melbourne now. Just finished survival watering of the garden. Still a bit of hope in the SW stream on Saturday...just little hope.
Some very light rain here this evening. Only totalling 0.3mm so far, but will take anything we can get right now! There has been some more persistent rain a little further north in the Macedon Ranges, generally around the 1-3mm mark.
0.6mm in FC overnight. Decent showers inbound from the west. Might score a couple of mm's today, or they may disappear like most of the rain the last month
Not overly confident about tomorrow. Slow moving trough with showers and storms developing. The further west the poorer the chances. EC has 5mm in the city, 10mm in the Dandenongs and 20mm for Warburton. Clearly a few minutes in the set up could make a bit difference in totals.
Looks like the west coast and higher elevations out west have had ok totals overnight, locally almost to 20mm.
Up to a mighty 4mm here - must be in the sweet spot .
Re road weather alert, I think they issue these after a long dry spell followed by light rain. Turns all the dust and gunk on the roads into a greasy film; whereas heavier rain washes it all away and is therefore actually 'safer' for road surfaces, if that makes sense?
2mm here overnight. I think that takes me up to 6mm for the month.
It is still surprisingly green around this area. I drove down to Gisborne this morning and there is still green grass in front of peoples houses and roadside verges.
Home- "Shepherd's Bush" at Mt Macedon. 870m
Work- "Bolobek" at Macedon. 430m
why is there no chance of a thunderstorm this avo for Ballarat and region when <100km away the radar and lightning tracker sure do show some of that activity!
Macedonian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:08 pm
It is still surprisingly green around this area. I drove down to Gisborne this morning and there is still green grass in front of peoples houses and roadside verges.
There’s still surprisingly quite a bit of green here too. January was well above average for rain, so I guess the effects are still being felt. After such a dry month I would have expected it to have browned right off, but thankfully we also haven’t had those terrible landscape-burning 40c days.
Yeah its not that dry people few weeks of no rain in driest part of year just relax lol.
Also fire threat almost done hard to get big bush fires in March.
Another hot night then blustery change with showers.
Mild to warm and mostly sunny week next wee loving it.
The Cold dark moist depths of winter arent far away, it will be wet and damp and cold then so enjoy last few weeks of sun and warmth.
Well i know i am any way lol.
stevco123 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2018 1:09 am
Almost 30 degrees here right now at 1am
And it's still the same and its almost 2am! It's also breezy outside. Don't think the BOM have a clue on what's happening atm. They have been getting everything wrong these past couple of days!
Big rains in Northern Tassie overnight. Cradle Valley 71 mm, Meander 60 mm, Sheffield 41 mm, Devonport 40 mm, Wynyard 37 mm, Scottsdale 22 mm Launceston 17 mm, Hobart 3.8 mm since 9 am yesterday
Very warm night, only got down to 28.3c here a record high for February.
Previous record was 24.3c last year.
2nd warmest night I have recorded in my 16 years here only warmer night
was a min of 28.8c in January 2010.
Doubt if we will get much rain with the change so might be my driest ever month.
Driest ever was January 2013 with 3.0mm's. Sitting on 1.5mm's at the moment.