Victoria - Warm then more rain - 13th-26th Jan 2020

[Sean]

It's back building. Will be interesting to see how it develops.

[Horts]

All over red rover here.

Thunder and lightning was awesome, not alot of rain.

Smoke is full on now. Any ideas why?

[stevco123]

Not very interesting here. Just some rain and distant thunder. Most notable thing is how dark the sky is, most likely exacerbated by the smoke

[StratoBendigo]

Round Two goes around us again. Can't take a trick...

[snowfall]

Incredible conditions here over the past hour. Torrential rain, squally winds, and almost constant thunder. We had a peak rain rate of 154mm/h! So far 45mm in the gauge.

Lots of flash flooding around the property, with water coming right up to the front door.

Still thundering and raining. The rain has eased off now, turning light to moderate. Cool change came through just before it started raining. It’s currently 18c.

It’s back building so it may get heavier again over the next hour.

[flyfisher]

Stuck under an area of subsidence - the pulsey nature of these storms. A few spits but 0 in the rain garage and might end that way. I did not water the garden in anticipation of this so will be out later to do that.

[hillybilly]

Compete dud here. 0.2mm. Storms, north, south, east and west. They have basically stalled. There are falls 50mm+ about 5km west of us.

Not over yet, buy geez want it to get a hurry on.

[Skywalker]

We got absolutely smashed here! I've never seen that amount of water on the roads in the 12 years I've been living in this area.
Several roads are under water including the new section of Westwood Drive Burnside Heights. It's practically a river.
There is still thunder rolling in the background as I type.

[Blackie]

Moderate/heavy rain with lots of CC's for about an hour now. 10mm so far in Elwood. Bay was wild as the line approached from the west.

[nafets]

66mm in 1 hour to 5pm at St Albans. Had 21mm in Ascot Vale. Amazingly frequent CC lightning.

[Sean]

Feel like I need a respirator. The smoke is horrific.

Quite a bit of fresh development but I'm not sure it'll make it this far

[Tassiedave]

Tas temps today: Campania 31.5, Hobart 30.5, Launceston 27.8. Rainfall: Cape Grim 5.6mm, Judbury 3mm, Launceston 1.8mm, Hobart 0.2

[stevco123]

I think i can safely call it a fizzer for down here, rainwise. Only about 4mm

[hillybilly]

Up to 4mm here now, so tank getting a top up and garden a wetting of sorts. Can't really be confident about what happens next with the bands back-building, and more firing up to the northwest.

Lost count of the number of close CG. If I got a mm for each crash bang would be past 100mm by now

Area just east of here has been hammered. Monbulk has been under intense echos for about an hour. Local gauges showing over 50mm. Would expect so spots must be on the way to 100mm at this point.

[Skywalker]

This is not over by a long shot for us judging by the radar.
That total for St Albans would be similar for here considering it's just down the road & the amount of water we have laying around.

By far the best event for 9 years here.

[Horts]

I know I'm banging on about this, but this is by far the worst the smoke has been.

Absolutely awful outside, almost pitch black, eerily quiet down the beaches and town as you literally cannot go outside without choking.

Just got back from IGA and 5 mins outside max. has given me a constant cough. Wish the SW'ly would speed up and bit and push this garbage away.

[Wilko]

It's back building. Will be interesting to see how it develops.

Very nice backbuid
6mm and very steady rain
Looks like more to come

[Lucia]

We got absolutely smashed here! I've never seen that amount of water on the roads in the 12 years I've been living in this area.
Several roads are under water including the new section of Westwood Drive Burnside Heights. It's practically a river.
There is still thunder rolling in the background as I type.

Haha Not such a boring zone then... Upto 12 mls here, smoke haze not too bad at all here.

[Australis(Shell3155)]

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801 ... 4854.shtml

[hillybilly]

Melbourne just cracked 15.8mm so the wettest day since December 2018 (again). Geez be nice if this happen weekly for the rest of the year.

Endless rumbles here. Quite amazing. Rain has never got past moderate though. Dragged our self up to 8mm and tank is full. Could well rain for a few more hours yet, but never quite confident. EC suggest it will be showery right through to early arvo tomorrow, so trough really stalls.

Progs are really messy, but showing big falls for the rest of the event. Big difference between them, but overall pattern seems to be for widepread 20-60mm falls, with the best happening on Monday and Tuesday.