Strong longwave trough for the week ahead will throw a sequence of fronts across Victoria. Looks like a front a day, with showers and local storms possible with each. The link to the tropics is poor so not widespread rain, but showers should add up in southern and mountain areas. The plains west of Melbourne and northwest will struggle.
Temps looks quite mild for mid July with 850Ts mainly above 0C (so low to mid teens on the flats) but will drop lower later on Tuesday and around Friday.
All pretty stock standard winter so far up here. A few -3 to 4c’s in the last week, around 20mm for July, a bit of sleet thrown in the mix. Water tanks and dam doing well.
EC showing a bit of an upgrade for the week ahead, while GFS has had a downgrade. Looks to me like a 20-30mm sequence here, but hoping for a bit more.
Another sub 8C max here today (7.9C) with a feral wind which made it feel much colder. Btw some nasty low dew point ahead of this system. DPs into the negatives in NW and below -5C in some spots across the border. The almost El Niño and positive IOD type pattern is starting to sap the tropical moisture.
All pretty stock standard winter so far up here. A few -3 to 4c’s in the last week, around 20mm for July, a bit of sleet thrown in the mix. Water tanks and dam doing well.
Been a really dull one here. About 1C above average (which is pretty cool nowadays) but no really cold days or nights. The 850Ts have barely got below -3C) so frosts have been very slight and we’ve only had a tiny bit of sleet. Rains not too bad, but it looks dry with only dribbles in the creeks thanks to the very dry autumn. Had a lot of nice sunny days which have made winter feel a lot milder than it has been.
Bit of a shock heading off to work this morning with cold rain, 4C and a DP of 1C. Felt like a day skiing Mount Buller 0.6mm in the gauge to start the thread.
Unfortunately the dry air is catching most the rain before it reaches the surface and there is a fair bit of bright banding, so radar is substantially over reading.
Just the odd shower today with a cold blustery NW'ly wind. Tomorrow's winds are starting to look quite nasty with 850hPa winds above 60 knots.
Midday and 3.3C in Trentham, 2.6C at Hesket and 2.2C at my place on Mt Macedon.
Eek... those are nasty numbers (with all the wind about as well). We maxed out at 7.4C in FC at 560m so definitely wintery. No more rain to report.
Cracker of a front for tomorrow with nasty winds and a band of showers. That said the system is moisture starved so won't be a lot of rain with it. Will also be a substantial event on the coast with large waves (becoming very large for Bass Strait as the week goes on) and very high water levels tomorrow arvo (and again on Thursday).
Big vertical temperature differences between 850 and 500 hPa this afternoon and evening in central areas. Access R showing above 55 this evening on the 12z run. If that verifies, there could be an angry squall line with a good chance of sparks.
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Milder morning in FC but a squally NWly wind. Looks and feels like a big feature of today will be the winds ahead of the front. Looks like a punchy band of showers and storms on the front, with EC and GFS showing locally 10-20mm.
This sequence is going to throw up some really large waves in Bass Strait going above 8m of the southwest coast