Wild wet and windy night up here. Plenty of rain and sleet/graupel showers but don’t think it was cold enough for proper snow. Temps been slowly rising through the night as the cold air has been thrown up in central NSW and we are in a warming pattern. Suspect snowline started near 700-800m but is probably nearing 900-1000m now.
We’ve got a very sharp trough in southerly flow on the western side of the developing low parked near us with strong cyclonic curvature. This is creating highly unstable conditions with the total totals near 60 over Melbourne atm (I am struggling this think of too many step ups where the total totals have gone much about 55
). That explains the rapid development of numerous connective bands and heavy showers merging into rain. Temperature here currently 4.7C.
So far had 22mm since this time yesterday and ~44mm for the event. MTD about 65mm. Need about 40mm to our monthly average. Could get there today, though depends when the clearance kicks through. I’m tending to think the showers will ease here from about 2pm as it goes too southerly, but an hour or two either side could be plus or minus 15mm.
Going to be a wild arvo as the southerly kicks in and draws showers straight up the bay. Big waves and one of the highest tides (if not the highest) for the year today